PORT ST. LUCIE — Three members of a family moving from Port St. Lucie to North Carolina were arrested Saturday after city police and animal control officers found more than a score of cats packed in four poorly ventilated wooden boxes.
The boxes were found nailed shut. (TCPalm.com)
The boxes were found nailed shut. (TCPalm.com)
The new owner of a home in the 300 block of Northwest Archer Avenue phoned police to report animals were in three nailed-shut wooden boxes stacked near her neighbor’s yard.
Animal control freed several cats from those boxes, when Jessica L. Eskew, 34, arrived in a van with dogs and cats inside.
The van was towing an open wooden trailer and Eskew told police she had come to pick up some ite
Police report a wooden box containing 20 more cats was on the trailer and that the cats were close to heat exhaustion.
Eskew’s parents, James F. Eskew, 59, and Shelia N. Eskew, 56, arrived and all three were charged with felony animal cruelty.
A total of 32 cats and two dogs were taken by Port St. Lucie animal control.
so sad
