UPDATE: PETA employees charged with animal cruelty : Lone Star Times

UPDATE: PETA employees charged with animal cruelty

by The Panda Man · 10/17/2005 12:06 pm

You may recall our coverage from June regarding two PETA employees accused of killing animals taken from shelters under the pretense of finding them homes, then unloading the dead cats and dogs in dumpsters.

Apparently there was some trouble with the criminal charges, which had to be re-done. According to this story the employees:

…were served with warrants on 22 felony charges of animal cruelty and the three felony charges of obtaining property by false pretense in court on Friday.

The new animal cruelty charges replaced 31 previous animal cruelty charges, which were dismissed.

The two employees are still charged with eight misdemeanor counts of illegal disposal of dead animals and one count of trespassing.

This is PETA, folks. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Well, have they lowered the boom on the accused employees? Perhaps they are waiting for the trial results:

Both have been released on $35,000 bail, and PETA is paying their legal fees. PETA suspended Hinkle for 90 days and did not discipline Cook.

One wonders what would have happened if Tom DeLay worked for PETA.

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7 Responses to “UPDATE: PETA employees charged with animal cruelty”

Mike Martin on October 17th, 2005 at 12:18 pm

The two employees are still charged with eight misdemeanor counts of illegal disposal of dead animals and one count of trespassing.

They could have at least given the animals to the French for use in shark-fishing.
jeffd on October 17th, 2005 at 12:38 pm

Remember folks that the “E” for Ethical is how they expect YOU to treat animals NOT them. They are the rightous and the “humane” ones when it comes to taking “care” of animals…
Spark on October 17th, 2005 at 12:49 pm

Yeah well now we know how they “take” care of them
Matt Bramanti on October 17th, 2005 at 1:23 pm

I wonder if the suspension was one of those “with pay” suspensions, like you hear about cops getting.

That always sounded like a pretty sweet gig. Waste a bad guy and get a month-long vacation. If the mayor would fund police academy classes once in a while, I might just become a Boy in Blue.
Rorschach on October 17th, 2005 at 1:25 pm

Hinkle is married to one of the upper eschelon there (talk about taking one for the team!). They were trying to get one to roll on the people who supplied them with the class 3 narcotic used but neither one would roll. So they changed the charges to federal drug charges instead of misdemeanors in an effort to exert more pressure. There was nothing wrong with the charges as written except they weren’t exerting enough leverage to get them to talk about thier superiors.
Rorschach on October 17th, 2005 at 2:30 pm

correction, I meant felony drug charges, not federal.
Wino on October 17th, 2005 at 5:06 pm

So, applying more pressure to get someone to tell who the drug dealer is… is that supposed to be a bad thing?