Columbus residents charged with animal cruelty

By Suzannah Couch, The (Brown County) Democrat

BROWN COUNTY — Two people have been charged with animal cruelty after officers reported finding dead and decomposing animals, burned remains, and close to 90 live animals without access to food or clean water on their Becks Grove Road property.

Roy Fish, 65, and Penney Carey, 50, both of 8571 W. County Road 275S, Columbus, were charged Feb. 6 in Brown Circuit Court with two counts each of cruelty to an animal, both Class A misdemeanors.

They were booked into the Brown County jail on Feb. 10 and were released about two hours later after posting $1,500 bonds, according to jail records.

Please read Friday’s edition of The Republic for more details.