3/02/2005

Goat Killed, Traded for Crack

You cannot make this stuff up:

"Four Connellsville-area men are accused of stealing a Pygmy goat, killing it and trading its meat for crack cocaine...

Police said charges of theft, receiving stolen property, cruelty to animals and criminal conspiracy were filed Tuesday with Bullskin Township District Judge Robert Breakiron...

Police said Albright removed the goat from a pen with a piece of rope, dragged it to a patch of woods and tied it to a shrub.

Albright and Charles Smith Jr. allegedly beat the animal to death by striking it on the head with a hammer and/or a steel pipe.

Police said the goat was taken to the Smith residence where it was skinned by Fisch and the elder Smith. According to witnesses, the meat was traded to a local drug dealer for crack cocaine."

From this Pittsburgh Tribune Review story.