Last Thursday two brothers from Indiana were arrested and accused of animal cruelty for catching more than 20 cats from their neighbors to shoot them in the head, detailed the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office Rick Meyers.
The investigation into the brothers Gavin G. Goens and Garth F. Goens, both of 28 years, began on January 9 when a woman who lives next door to them called 911, points out a press release.
The neighbor, whose identity has not been revealed, allegedly told the operator that she had recorded an argument between the brothers and another man with her cell phone when the brothers saw her and they allegedly yelled, “Hey, your cats are dead.”
After the call to the emergency number, a police officer went to the neighbor’s house located on South Main Street and then went to the Goens’ residence to question the brothers about what happened. The woman’s cats.
According to Sheriff Rick Meyers, when the officer questioned the brothers about what had happened to the cats, they initially told police that they had recently killed several cats, arguing that the animals were feral.
“They said the cats entered their property and got caught in a trap,” Meyers said in the press release.
In the police report, the officer stated that he saw “numerous wire traps of different sizes containing some type of bait” scattered throughout the property.
The Goens brothers would have admitted that the felines they caught and killed after falling into their traps matched the description of the neighbor’s cats. They allegedly said that the cats had “been a nuisance.”
Authorities detailed that the Goens brothers caught the cats and then killed them by shooting them in the head with a 9mm pistol. They confessed that they had buried the carcasses of the animals in different places on their property. They are accused of trapping and killing more than 28 cats owned by their neighbor.
Animal cruelty charges against Gavin and Garth Goens are joined by a marijuana possession charge and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The cruel brothers were booked into the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown on Thursday afternoon, and had been released on $1 bail by Monday. ,505.
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