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Stable owner, caretaker charged with cruelty to horses

Horses found living in unfit conditions
Via Sun-Times,
115 Reads | | Post a commentPublished August 7, 2008 - 2:17 PM
Stable owner, caretaker charged with cruelty to horses
The Loop, Chicago, Ill. —  

Bond was set Wednesday for the owner and an employee of a south suburban horse stable charged with animal abuse after police found four horses living in deplorable conditions.

Owner Frank Lee, 67, of the 3500 block of West Adams in Chicago, and caretaker Donnie Edwards, 62, of the 1600 block East 87th Place in Chicago, were taken into custody Monday afternoon by Cook County Sheriff’s Police Special Operations officers at the Bar-L Stable, 1965 Glenwood-Lansing Rd. in unincorporated Bloom Township, according to a release from the sheriff's office.

Each faces four counts of felony aggravated animal abuse.

Acting on a tip, Special Operations officers raided the stable July 28 and found four underweight horses in pens, with feces piled more than two feet high, the release said. The horses' hooves were overgrown, cracked and bleeding.

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