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03-28-2007, 02:50 PM
Charges dropped in Mahopac against alleged goat painter (http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703270377): "MAHOPAC - Criminal charges were dropped last night against a Mahopac man whom police charged last fall with animal cruelty and burglary for breaking into a barn and spray-painting three goats.
Drew Gagnon, 37, was arrested in November after police said he broke into the barn on Croton Falls Road early Thanksgiving morning and used orange spray paint on the genitals of the three goats owned by the Fiero family. Carmel police charged him with third-degree burglary, a felony, and three misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty.
In court last night, the goats' owner, Bryce Fiero, told Town Justice Joseph Spofford that he would withdraw the charges in exchange for Gagnon and his alleged accomplice, Douglas Bisio, 34, of Mahopac, making a donation to the Putnam Humane Society.
Bisio was charged with misdemeanor criminal facilitation for allegedly driving Gagnon to the barn.
Through their attorney, Christopher X. Maher, Gagnon and Bisio agreed to donate a total of $2,000 to the humane society and to stay off Fiero family property.
'My family and I just want to put this ordeal behind us and we believe that a donation to the Humane Society would be helpful,' Fiero said outside court. 'You try to forgive and forget. We may not forget this, but we will try to forgive.'
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Drew Gagnon, 37, was arrested in November after police said he broke into the barn on Croton Falls Road early Thanksgiving morning and used orange spray paint on the genitals of the three goats owned by the Fiero family. Carmel police charged him with third-degree burglary, a felony, and three misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty.
In court last night, the goats' owner, Bryce Fiero, told Town Justice Joseph Spofford that he would withdraw the charges in exchange for Gagnon and his alleged accomplice, Douglas Bisio, 34, of Mahopac, making a donation to the Putnam Humane Society.
Bisio was charged with misdemeanor criminal facilitation for allegedly driving Gagnon to the barn.
Through their attorney, Christopher X. Maher, Gagnon and Bisio agreed to donate a total of $2,000 to the humane society and to stay off Fiero family property.
'My family and I just want to put this ordeal behind us and we believe that a donation to the Humane Society would be helpful,' Fiero said outside court. 'You try to forgive and forget. We may not forget this, but we will try to forgive.'
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