In shades of last year's incident where a Wyoming resident named Cody Roberts ran down a juvenile wolf with a snowmobile, another resident of the state has been accused of running down a horse with an ATV.
According to the Laramie Boomerang, Stuart Schmidt has been charged with one count of aggravated cruelty to animals resulting in death or euthanasia for an incident that occurred this August when he was taken into custody. Appearing in court on September 29th, Schmidt has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
But there are a lot of murky details that have come out since Schmidt's arrest, including changing timetables, changing narratives, and a video purportedly showing the incident itself. Again, there's similarities between this case and the Cody Roberts wolf case, and after increasing fines for animal cruelty, this is sure to possibly reignite the debate about running animals down.
