New Orleans police are on the hunt for a man suspected of committing unnatural sex acts on two horses early Tuesday morning inside the stables at City Park.
According to police, the man entered the stables in the 1000 block of Filmore Avenue shortly after 2:00 am Tuesday.
The suspect was captured on camera and was wearing a striped shirt and a distinctive tattoo on his right arm.
Police did not give specifics in regards to the alleged sex acts. It s also unclear as of late yesterday who owned the two victimized horses.
The New Orleans Police Department s Mounted Division stables its horses in City Park, however, those are housed on Harrison Avenue, so the horses involved were not the NOPD s.
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The New Orleans Police Department s Mounted Division stables its horses in City Park, but on Harrison Avenue.
The sheriff s office, however, does keep its horses at the Filmore Avenue stables, said sheriff s office attorney Blake Arcuri. ( I can confirm we were notified of an incident involving an OPSO horse assigned to the Mounted Division, Arcuri said, while noting the NOPD investigation.
The suspect was wanted on a charge of sexual abuse of an animal. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison upon a conviction. A second offense raises the maximum to 10 years.