According to Brownwood Police reports, Animal Control Officer Nick Ferguson was contacted on Saturday March 6, 2010 by the Animal Cruelty Investigator from the Corrine T. Smith Animal Shelter to make him aware of an ongoing cruelty investigation. The investigator indicated that there was a pit bull mix on Golding Road that was very thin. The owner was contacted and asked about the dog and claimed that the dog just wasn’t eating according to the police report. The owner brought the dog in to the animal shelter and signed a release form.
After the owner left, the animal cruelty investigator then attempted to feed the dog a can of prescription food, which the dog according to reports, “readily ate a ½ of the can at that time”.
Further noted in the report, on March 7, the dog was taken to the Small Animal Clinic for a checkup. The dog’s body condition score was very low, the veterinarian’s opinion stated, “The dog is extremely emaciated. Certainly intestinal parasitism plays a major role. Probable poor quality and/or limited diet contributes to presenting body score. Dog readily ate ½ can of prescription diet and then stopped as though full, lending credence to the possibility of long term underfeeding by the dog’s previous owner.”
It was documented in the police reports that both the animal cruelty investigator and the animal control officer believed the owner of this dog “failed unreasonably to provide necessary food, water, care or shelter for an animal in the person’s custody.” Authorities are continuing their investigation.
In other unrelated reports:
*On Wednesday, Brownwood Police were notified of a complainant in Brookings South Dakota that alleged someone was using their personal information at a pharmacy in Brownwood.
The report further stated that the victim had received a phone call from a doctor’s office in Coleman, TX requesting her date of birth regarding filling a prescription. The victim asked who was calling and was told that a woman was attempting to fill a prescription for prenatal vitamins at Wal-Mart in Brownwood, using her name and date of birth (which the year was changed from 88 to 82) and had provided the victim’s cell phone number. The victim told the employee of the physician’s office that she had never lived in Texas and had not ever been pregnant. The physician’s office’s first contact with the suspect was on August 3, 2009 when she came in for a pregnancy test.
Police reports indicated that through the investigation it was found that there was a woman with the same name as the victim living in Brown County. The current whereabouts of this suspect are currently unknown.
*Brownwood Police reports noted that officers responded to separate and unrelated reports of burglaries of vehicles in the 2700 block of Vine, 4400 block of Westridge and at Alpine Court. Items stolen in the burglaries were a stereo, an amplifier, a subwoofer and speaker box, and a .45 caliber pistol according to police reports.
