PETA employees charged with animal cruelty and illegally dumping dead animalsPosted on 06/16/2005 3:47:50 PM PDT by csvset
PETA employees charged with animal cruelty and illegally dumping dead animals
06:30 PM EDT on Thursday, June 16, 2005
A month-long investigation into alleged animal cruelty has ended with the arrests of two people, employed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Norfolk.
Ahoskie Police photos
Andrew Cook and Adria Hinkle
Officers said Andrew Benjamin Cook, 24, of Tree Top Drive in Va. Beach, and Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, of Claremont Ave. in Norfolk picked up live animals from shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties but dumped dead animals in Ahoskie.
In all, 31 animals were found Wednesday - 18 dogs were in a dumpster at New Market Shopping Center in Ahoskie, NC. The rest were still in the van, police added.
Investigators said dead animals have been illegally dumped every Wednesday night for four weeks.
Surveillance done Wednesday resulted in the pair's arrest. Their white panel van, which was seized, was registered to PETA, investigators added.
And, according to the Roanoke-Chowan News Herald, investigators positively identified nearly all of the dogs found in the dumpster as the ones picked up just a few hours earlier on Wednesday by Cook and Hinkle. The paper also quoted investigators as say that shelter officials were told the animals would be taken to Norfolk where they would find good homes.
Cook and Hinkle each face 31 felony counts of animal cruelty and eight misdemeanor counts of illegal disposal of dead animals. Both are free on $35,500.00 bond and are due in court on Friday.
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk told 13News that Hinkle has been suspended. She said Cook was a new employee on a ride along and that he has not been suspended.
Newkirk also said that it would be "deplorable" for anyone to illegally dispose of animals.
She confirmed that PETA does, in fact, euthanize animals but only ones that are not adoptable.
Newkirk said some of the animals were in bad shape. For example, one had its collar embedded in its neck; another had a severe skin disease.
Dr. Pat Proctor of Ahoskie Animal Hospital said one of the animals he examined didn't need to be euthanized.
"This was a young, healthy puppy. It was a six month old lab mix and appeared to be in very, very good shape. Um, and he had received some type of injection in his front right leg," he said.
PETA said it's launched its own investigation.
Thanks for the updated info. Their hypocrisy isn't surprising, but it gives me the creeps.
This is a BIG story, but I wouldn't hold my breath for the MSM to cover it.
I'll be sending it to some of my e-mail contacts, though.
CD
The thugs of PETA have probably been slaughtering dog, cats and other critters for years.
Now they have been caught doing it, and it is out on the internet.
Their left wing dark side buddies in the MSM can't spike this story or hide it on page 29 of section Z in Saturday's newspaper.
Another repost here: Two PETA Employees Arrested on Animal Cruelty Charges in N.C.
LOL...
Look how bloodshot their eyes are. They probably got high and figured a dumpster was just as good as any place to dispose of these murdered animals.
I appreciate your view, which of course is generally correct, but this is bizarre for a few reasons.
These people apparently took these animals from vets and shelters saying they would try to find homes.
Obviously, they didn't even try and just killed them off.
That's different from making a pact w/the shelters where they more likely try to help the shelter find homes and understand that some will end up killed anyway as hopeless - at the shelter.
And never mind their opinion generally that pets shouldn't be the slaves of humans - so it's better to be dead.
Me too, but I think that this is a story people understand. Killing puppies elicits an emotion. Threatening a faceless doctor on the other side of the country doesn't get people inspired (or mad....)
Same reason that Bill Clinton got impeached. There were 100 better reasons to do it, but Joe Sixpack doesn't understand selling nuclear secrets to China. He does understand a quickie in the Oval Office. Unfortunate, but true.
What else would you expect from individuals associated with a movement that has generated the following statements:
"Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles--from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it." John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, (PeTA), 1982, p. 15.
"The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), 1982, p. 15.
"Humane care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage." Dr. Michael W. Fox, Humane Society of the US, in 1988 Newsweek interview
"Humane care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage." Dr. Michael W. Fox, Humane Society of the US, in 1988 Newsweek interview
And, last but not least, Ingrid Newkirk pontificated the following:
"I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, New Yorker magazine, April 23, 2003
That is so sad...these people are disturbed.
I will meet you at the airport. I will hold them down for you while you inject them.
In North Carolina PETA employees Adria J. Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, in pink at center, and Andrew B. Cook, 24, in back, of Virginia Beach, appeared Friday in Hertford County District Court on charges related to the dumping of animal carcasses in a trash bin. drew c. wilson / the virginian-pilot
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