UPDATED: Jenny’s Farm Market Owner Pleads No Contest to Two Counts of Animal Cruelty
Burton Hoey will be sentenced in Washtenaw County District Court on March 28.
The owner of Jenny's Farm Market in Webster Township plead no contest to two counts of animal cruelty in Washtenaw County District Court on Wednesday. Farm owner Burton Hoey will face sentencing on March 28. According to a press release from the Humane Society of Huron Valley, investigators seized eight farm animals from Jenny’s Farm Market on Sept. 6, 2012 and filed animal cruelty charges against Hoey. “We’ve been to Jenny’s Farm Market numerous times over the past 10 years because of complaints of abused and neglected animals,” said Matt Schaecher, director of Animal Cruelty Investigation and Rescue. “We see this conviction as a victory for the many animals that have suffered. We know there are many community members and families that …
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Kathie Weinmann
8:53 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
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