Andrea Rosebrock 
UPDATE – 1/23/09 – Dog Killer High Caliber K-9 Owner Gets Jail Time for Starving Dogs
There were 7 dogs dead of starvation, another 12 emaciated; starved and dehydrated, only 4 counts of animal cruelty, all misdemeanors and Steve Croley is getting a plea deal. What a total and complete travesty of justice!
In October when Animal Charity humane agents went to the property at 1516 Coitsville-Hubbard Road, Youngstown, OH, High Caliber K-9 Kennel, a business which offered boarding, training, grooming and more, the sight which greeted them was almost beyond belief. Seven dogs dead and some so composed they couldn’t even be recognized for the breed they were, another 12 dogs starved to skin and bone. The humane officers were desperate to get in and rescue and save dogs.
Steve Croley, the owner of High Calber, was initially charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, only misdemeanors because OH is one of only 5 states that doesn’t have felony charges for such heinous animal abuse crimes. Later 15 of the charges were dropped, leaving only 4 charges which he could be prosecuted for.
Youngstown City Prosecutor Jay Macejko says the Humane Agents with Animal Charity went onto Croley’s property prematurely, without the necessary warrants that they acted unlawfully, and that “its unlawful conduct sacrificed a full scale prosecution.” So he only filed charges on the four dogs that the agents ’saw’ prior to entering the property.
And now on top of that injustice, Croley has been offered a plea deal; 30 days in jail on each count; restitution of $1,646 to Animal Charity, a humane agency on South Avenue that rescued dogs from the property; and a provision that Croley not own or harbor animals during his probation.
So now there will be no trial on Dec. 18, Croley pleaded no contest yesterday and two housing violation charges were also dropped in accordance with the plea deal.
Sentencing is set for January 22. Now the Judge may impose more time and fines than worked out in the plea deal, up to 90 days in jail and $750 fine for each count and if that happens Croley could withdraw his plea and the case could proceed to trial.
This piece of human waste who deserve serious fines and prison is getting less than a slap on the wrist for his crimes! Dogs suffered cruelly and died caged in kennels, alone and forgotten and he will be out walking the streets. There is no justice!!
I cannot even begin to describe to anger and disgust at this, those poor dogs and their devastated owners……
Christ…
This is one sick bastered, he need to go to jail for the rest of his life, letting him go shows people that if they do a crime like this they wont be prosicuted and it will happen more often, I have to say this, Animals have feelings too, we need to treat them with respect they were here long before us, they used to roam free till humans caught them and domesticated them,so we owe it to them to take care of them, they never asked to be caught or to be taken from their wild home, they didnt ask for alot of people to take over their teratory, and they sure the hell didnt ask to be abused, and ignored.
STOP people like this, Stop illegal hunting, STOP areial wolf hunting and START protecting our beloved animals both owned and wild. We also need to protect our wildlife because of some humans wild animals are going extinct, they are endangered.
WTF YOU KNOW I’M SO @#%^&*!@*^ SICK OF THIS BS. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD THAT PEOPLE CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS BS.I SAY WE ALL SOME HOW GET THIS POS PICTURE & PLASTER IT ALL OVER THE INTERNET SO HE WILL NEVER EVER BE ABLE TO OPEN ANOTHER ANIMAL RELATERD PRACTICE AGAIN. IF I HAVE HIS PICTURE I’M GONNA PLASTER IT ALL OVER MYSPACE THIS POS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED NOW.
DEANNA IS THERE ANYWAY WE CAN GET A PICTURE OF THIS POS SO WE CAN GET IT OUT TO WORN PEOPLE ABOUT HIM. HE NEEDS TO BE STOPPED FROM EVER HAVING A ANIMAL BUSINESS IN ANY STATE.
Get him, Janet. Wouldn’t it be mice to cage this ‘man’ and starve him almost death?
@JANET MITCHELL -
I have a picture of him at my blog.
http://hobbitslife.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&title=seeking_justice_the_nitro_foundation&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Feel free to borrow at your hearts content.
THANKS DEANNA I COPIED HIS PIC AND THE STORY UNDERNEITH & I’M GONNA PUT A GOOD BULLETIN TOGETHER & HOPE ALL MY FRIENDS WILL REPOST IT SO IT GETS OUT TO EVERY STATE SO THIS POS CAN NEVER EVER DO THIS TO ANOTHER DOG.
OH BELIEVE ME KAREN THIS MAN WILL BE SORRY I EVER HEARD HIS NAME. I HOPE EVERYONE WILL POST THIS EVERYWHERE THEY CAN LET HIM KNOW THAT ANIMALS EVERYWHERE DO HAVE ANGELS WHO DO CARE & WE ARE LIKE WOLVES & DOGS & WE TAKE CARE OF OUR PACKS.I’M SO SICK OF PEOPLE GETTING AWAY WITH THIS STUFF SO FROM NOW I’M JUST CONNA POST THEIR PICS EVERYWHERE ON THE NET I CAN. HOPE EVERYONE WILL DO THE SAME. BECAUSE IF WE DON’T STAND UP FOR THE ANIMALS WHO WILL.
All you have to do is click on the part of the very beginning of the story that is underlined and it will take you back to Deanna’s original story about this and it includes a video with Steve Croley in it.