The arrest is rooted in a tip delivered to the PSPCA on Aug. 30 last year, when someone contacted its cruelty hotline regarding a limping horse, with a possible dislocated leg, at a Quarryville property.
In responding to the complaint, officers found an underweight horse with a bent ankle that had extreme difficulty walking. She was living in an overgrown pasture. The horse was relying on her back legs to hobble forward.
Fisher said he didn t seek veterinary care for the horse after it was hit by a car early last year, according to the media release.
“The suffering of the beautiful animal involved in this case is heartbreaking,” said Nicole Wilson, director of Humane Law Enforcement & Shelter Operations at the Pennsylvania SPCA. “For months, instead of providing veterinary care or euthanizing the filly to ease her pain, her owner forced her to suffer in silence.
A Pennsylvania State Police trooper shot at a man who hit him with a vehicle early Tuesday morning on Lincoln Highway East in East Lampeter Township, according to state police.
Police are still searching for the man, identified as 18-year-old David Joseph Pratt, of East Lampeter Township, who is considered armed and dangerous.
Troopers initiated a traffic stop at 2:20 a.m. for a vehicle in the 1600 block of Lincoln Highway East after a cigarette was discarded onto the roadway by one of the occupants, according to an affidavit of probable cause. A trooper asked the driver to step out of the vehicle and approached him, while Pratt stayed in the vehicle as a passenger, according to police.
Police searching for man accused of striking trooper with vehicle, fleeing scene
Police say David Pratt, 18, struck a State Police trooper with his vehicle as he fled from the scene of a traffic stop at 2:20 a.m. Pratt remains at large.
Credit: State Police Published: 6:50 AM EDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 10:27 AM EDT May 11, 2021
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. State Police are searching for a man accused of striking a trooper with a vehicle and fleeing from a traffic stop.
David Pratt, 18, is wanted for his role in the inicdent.
On May 11 around 2:20 a.m., police conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle on Route 462 east of Old Philadelphia Pike in East Lampeter Township.