{"id":99454,"date":"2019-03-05T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=99454"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:09:57","slug":"oswego-county-man-arrested-on-animal-cruelty-charges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=99454","title":{"rendered":"Oswego County man arrested on animal cruelty charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Scott-Anthony-129x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Scott-Anthony-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Scott-Anthony-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Scott-Anthony-400x464.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Scott-Anthony.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>State police arrested&nbsp;Anthony M. Scott, 30, of Richland,\nfour counts of New York Agriculture and Markets Law \u00a7353 &#8211; overdriving,\ntorturing and injuring animals; failure to provide proper sustenance, a class A\nmisdemeanor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Feb. 20, 2019, state police responded to 899 County Route\n48, Albion, for a report of possible animal abuse. When troopers arrived, along\nwith the Albion animal control officer, they observed three dogs each housed in\na small crate covered in their own feces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott stated one of his four dogs (a German shephard) had passed away two days prior and was left in a garbage bag outside the residence. He told troopers that the dog had stopped eating and he was financially unable to take the dog to a veterinarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott agreed to turn the remaining three dogs over to the\ncustody of the Paws Across the County group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 1, 2019, a local veterinarian from North Country\nVet Services released a medical report regarding the deceased German shephard,\nwhich stated the dog had no food in its stomach and had perished due to\nstarvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 3, 2019, Scott was arrested on animal cruelty\ncharges and was issued an appearance ticket.&nbsp;He is scheduled to appear in Albion\nTown Court April 1, 2019, at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State police arrested&nbsp;Anthony M. Scott, 30, of Richland, four counts of New York Agriculture and Markets Law \u00a7353 &#8211; overdriving, torturing and injuring animals; failure to provide proper sustenance, a class A misdemeanor. On Feb. 20, 2019, state police responded to 899 County Route 48, Albion, for a report of possible animal abuse. When troopers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22359,32,8],"tags":[25045,24978],"class_list":["post-99454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pets","category-crime","category-top-story","tag-anthony-scott","tag-nysp-new-york-state-police-troopers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}