PeTA employees face FELONY Animal Cruelty Charges !!!

WINTON, N.C. -- A judge has declined to dismiss felony animal cruelty charges against two PETA workers accused of dumping euthanized animals into a trash container.

Defense lawyers argued Wednesday in Hertford Superior Court that the charges should be dropped because the animals were killed humanely. They also argued that Andrew B. Cook and Adria J. Hinkle are being unfairly prosecuted because some people don't agree with the work of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Cook, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Hinkle, of Norfolk, Va., were arrested last June by Ahoskie police officers who were staking out a trash container in which animal carcasses had previously been found. Detectives testified Wednesday that they arrested Cook and Hinkle after watching them throw several bags of dead animals inside the trash bin.

They also said they found more dead animals in the pair's van, a digital camera with images of living and dead animals and substances later determined to be euthanasia drugs.

Cook and Hinkle each face 21 felony counts of animal cruelty, seven counts of littering for illegally disposing of dead animals and three counts of obtaining property by false pretenses.

PETA spokesman David Perle said in an e-mail Thursday that the organization is confident its employees will be acquitted. Hinkle was suspended pending the outcome of the criminal case, he said. Cook, a new employee at the time, remains with PETA.

No trial date has been set.

 

I think they need to hang them for what they do to the dogs.

 

I just hope the fact that this is the sort of behavior PETA engages in gets some more public attention.

 

HSUS, Peta, has enough funds that they can afford the best trial laywers....That is why, they will stoop to any leval of the law. IMO yes these Orgs do beleive they are above the laws.

Spread the word..... Take back your rights, shut these folks down.

 

these peta freaks are some morons and i hope those dumbasses get what they deserve.

 

I agree with you guys!

 

STRING EM UP!

Regards,

B

 

shit, they need the fireing squad!! id make sure my aim was off, and my gun jammed after the first bullet or two in the gut/leg

 

Well, I quess this won't make one of their bill-board topics.

 

They all might, but PETA for sure does, they've been linked to ALF, the animal liberation front, which is listed as a terrorist organizaton. By the way, Ingrid Newkirk was once attacked by a Pitbull which might explain why that organization is so hot to wipe the breed out.

 

It is about time they get what is coming to them!! Get a rope!!

 

im so glad that is happening!! I wish everyone working for Peta would die...

 

Way to go, someone isnt buying into their BS. I think that is the most important part of the article, the judge acknowledges PETA is scamming folks and dumping dogs in dumpsters!

 

PETA?! their my favorite terrorist group of all time,,hope they beat the dog poop out of em!

 

Man, I would pay good money to set in that court room eating pop corn and drinking a big fat soda. Dag gum. Where and when is it. Hope it isn't too far from me I got a full tank of gas in the Mustang and am itching to see them get lynched.

 

This happened awhile ago Attila, a few months ago. I think it was Virginia?