A Spickard woman has been charged with 18 counts of animal neglect or abandonment.
According to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office, 74-year-old Diana L. Miller is facing the charges, all class C misdemeanors. Ms. Miller, who turned herself in to the sheriff’s department, is accused of knowingly failing to provide adequate control of a donkey, horses, goats and sheep that were in her custody, allowing them to travel onto another property owner’s land and eat the grass and hay on that property. The victim was then deprived of the profits and use of them. The warrant states that the incidents occurred on 18 occasions between Nov. 7 and Dec. 15, 2021. She has posted $500 bond and is scheduled to appear in court March 8.
Two persons were arrested for failing to appear in court, including Jeremiah Burnett, 49, who is being held in the Grundy County Detention Center on $2,500 cash-only bond. Burnett was picked up from the Department of Corrections after failing to appear in court on felony charges of first degree burglary, second degree burglary and first degree property damage and a misdemeanor charge of tampering with a motor vehicle.
Also failing to appear in court was Dan R. Peters, Jr., a 34-year-old Trenton man, who failed to be in court on a felony charge of first degree property damage. Peters is in the GCDC, with bond set at $5,000 cash only.
Both Burnett and Peters are scheduled to be in court on March 10.
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