SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Marion County, Ore., sheriff’s deputies have taken control of 16 skinny and neglected horses and arrested a Salem woman for investigation of 16 counts of animal neglect.
Sheriff’s spokesman Don Thomson says 52-year-old Gabriel Elle Buckner is on probation in Deschutes County after a 2010 conviction for animal neglect involving horses. She also was convicted of animal neglect in 1998 involving dogs and cats.
Thomson says deputies and an inmate work crew will feed and care for the horses, mainly thoroughbreds and quarter horses, until they can be transferred to a horse rescue facility.
Deputies executed a search warrant and impounded the horses on Tuesday.
