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DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A Crossville girl is struggling with legal prices immediately after courtroom documents say she tied a horse to an All-Terrain Motor vehicle (ATV) and dragged it for approximately fifty percent a mile.
Carla Bohanon, 40, was arrested on August 14 for animal cruelty adhering to an incident that allegedly happened on August 5 involving a horse named Whiskey Glasses.
According to an arrest report, a deputy with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Business (DCSO) was dispatched to County Street 391 following another person identified as to say a particular person was dragging a horse with an ATV. A Geraldine Police Officer was presently on the scene with the injured horse when the deputy arrived.
Immediately after making contact with a neighborhood veterinarian, the deputy described the horse as possessing “visible accidents to its still left aspect and appeared to be favoring its right rear hoof.” The report continued, stating, “There was blood on the roadway in entrance of the residence at that location. There was a single large spot that contains gobs of blood.”
When authorities ended up surveying the scene, Bohanon drove up on an ATV and instructed them it was her horse, courtroom data say. At the time the deputy advised Bohanon that a vet was en route, she “immediately grew to become verbally belligerent,” the report claimed, declaring she started inquiring “how considerably it would price her and aggressively stating she could not afford to pay for to pay out for a veterinarian.”
Bohanon denied dragging the horse, as the deputy documented her statements have been “rather puzzling and contradictive,” stating she later told them she “stopped dragging the horse when it fell into the roadway.”
In accordance to Bohanon, she was attempting to teach the horse, Whiskey Eyeglasses, to trip as she led with the ATV.
Although the veterinarian and his assistant commenced caring for the horse’s wounds, the report mentioned Bohanon started asking how a lot the care would value. The assistant then available to buy the horse for $200 on the location, to which Bohanon agreed, according to the report.
Below are the injuries to Whiskey Glasses as described in courtroom information:
“The hooves of the horse appeared to be injured as they had been also bleeding…bright crimson blood and that a big element of both rear hooves were missing…major abrasions and bruising on the left shoulder, remaining front leg and knee, still left elbow, rib cage on still left side, still left flank and hip, and still left upper thigh and hocks…abrasions on remaining and suitable jar in close proximity to throat region, abrasions less than chin, abrasions on both of those sides of pull behind ears and across the leading of poll in her mane…all 4 feet had soles and frogs worn off and the bleeding corium was uncovered. The back of the foot was worn off earlier the hairline as the pores and skin and hair was rolled up on the back of the hoof. Rear toes were being the worst of the 4 with the correct rear becoming the most unpleasant as she did not want to pounds that hoof.”
As the vet and assistant were being on their way to the clinic with Whiskey Eyeglasses immediately after shopping for her from Bohanon, the deputy stated that the assistant named to warn him of “the blood trail” main farther down the street, a distance of .4 miles, describing that “the horse would have experienced to have been dragged prior to that just before the hooves were worn down to bleed.
Adhering to a warrant issued for her arrest, Bohanon was billed with animal cruelty, a Class A misdemeanor. She was booked into the DeKalb County Jail on a $3,500 bond and has considering that been launched.
