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UPDATE: Animal rescue scam

By WINK News

Story Created: Sep 29, 2008 at 5:47 PM EST

Story Updated: Oct 3, 2008 at 6:27 PM EST

UPDATE 10/03/2008
LEE COUNTY, Fla. - According to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, Buckingham shelter owner Carrie Cagata turned herself in to sheriff's deputies October 2, 2008 at approximately 11:00 pm. Cagata was re-arrested after more than one-hundred additional charges were filed against her for animal cruelty and animal abandonment.


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Additional charges in animal rescue scam
LEE COUNTY, Fla.- The Lee County Sheriff's Office announced Monday, it is pursuing more than one hundred additional charges against three people accused in an animal rescue scam that left dozens of cats and dogs starving.

Detectives say Carrie Cagata, Shannon Kraham, and James Cullen will each face one count of animal cruelty and one count of animal abandonment for each animal seized from the Buckingham area property last week.

Lee County Animal Services seized more than 80 animals from the property and according to officers, many of the dogs and cats were emaciated.

LCAS tells WINK News it is working now to file the paperwork so it can gain custody of the dogs.

The agency has not been able to get in touch with Cagata to ask her to sign over custody.

Once that happens, Animal Services hopes to adopt the animals out to good homes.

Cagata and Kraham bonded out of jail last week, Cullen has remained in custody.

Detectives say the additional charges mean all three will be re-arrested.

Saturday, Oct 4 at 11:37 PM summer hopper wrote ...

i would kill those people

Tuesday, Sep 30 at 1:19 PM Ticked off wrote ...

I stopped into the pet store that they were at a couple of months ago & gave cullen my dogs cage that he grew out of. If I had any idea they were doing this to animals, I would have stuck him in it & locked it for life!

Tuesday, Sep 30 at 9:56 AM a### wrote ...

you should lock them in a cage with no food or water and let them not go to the bathroom for a week and see how they like it i have 4 dogs and i treat them like they were my own kids

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