Authorities charged 30-year-old whose name is Ares Lee Howard in June with three counts of killing a domestic animal and also eight counts of mutilating a vertebrate animal.
He pleaded guilty back in October to two counts of killing a domestic animal.
Prosecutors alleged Howard killed at least 10 cats using a pellet gun or low-caliber firearm. His arrest came more than a year after the Muarch 2014 discovery of at least 21 animal carcasses which were piled along an alley in the 700 block of East Indiana Avenue.
St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Jerome Frese sentenced Howard to a three-year suspended term for each of the two counts which were included in Howard’s plea agreement. Frese also ordered Howard to enroll in counseling and banned him from having any weapons in his possession including BB guns, firearms, slingshots and crossbows.
According to court documents, the police who searched Howard’s home found a Daisy BB gun, a .22-caliber Ruger pistol and a box of .22 ammunition.
Also, A fence on Howard’s property had holes that overlooked the alley and neighbors’ properties and were large enough to aim a gun through. Police also discovered a makeshift hunting blind in a garage window.
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Source: www.southbendtribune.com