After selfless and tireless work by GFN's investigating reporters Mr. Frank David Garcia finds himself, yet again, sitting at the DEFENSE table. GFN's lead investigator, whom we shall call XYZ, works inside of a well known Animal Rights organization in and around Washington DC. Kudos to you XYZ !!!

GFN apologizes to the drunken, convicted, felon, SPCA officer from Texas if our work has made you hit the local dive Bar trying to drown your sorrows in whiskey.,.,.,on second thought, naw, go ahead and drown yourself. (Editors Note)

The ABC News 20/20 story on the SPCAs has taken on a life of its own. Imagine raid victims investigating the SPCA raiders who ruined lives! Victims in several states are uncovering shocking secret criminal records that point to key figures at the SPCAs as being nothing but con artists and hardened felons.

Within days of airing the 20/20 story entitled, "Cruelty to Owners" past raid victims came forward with surprising revelations of felony charges against Dave Garcia, who heads rescues now for the SPCA of Texas. Game Fowl News looked further and found that Garcia has similar convictions in several States including outstanding warrants. Finally, we've uncovered records of a kidnapping and rape conviction showing that Dave Garcia has served 9 years in an Arizona State Prison. Yet he heads a group that formulates new laws on animal cruelty for the State of Texas! He's prospered in Texas and owns lots of property now himself. He's done the same legislative work in Missouri where he ran a Humane Society! It's clear that Dave Garcia is just the kind of person the SPCAs and Humane Societies need to do its dirty deeds but shame on the authorities for not doing a background check! I guess we have to do it ourselves.

20/20 also focused on Joe Stuebing, the New Jersey Arabian breeder who was raided by a New Jersey SPCA. Joe says the SPCA custodian, Andy Harris, was caught beating and kicking the horses on hidden video recorders in Stuebing's barn. Joe says that day after day, the cameras captured the incompetent handling by SPCA workers, including not feeding horses on some days, and allowing horses to run dangerous and loose in the barn. There are other shots of horses being left out unprotected in the freezing wind and snow in the middle of the winter. After watching news reports of the raid, lots of volunteers came forward to help the SPCA but after observing the SPCA for a while, the volunteers began moving away from the SPCA and working with Joe Stuebing to help him get his horses back.

Meantime, the NJ SPCA custodians decided to walk away with four of Joe's prized horses, before volunteers saw the horses being led onto the custodian's nearby farm. The volunteers got a judge to order the horses to be returned. During that time, other horses were starting to colic because the SPCA mistakenly overfed them. The worst came when SPCA custodian, Andy Harris assaulted a female volunteer who was trying to take a picture of a horse that had coliced under the SPCA's care. Andy asked her to leave the barn and when she didn't, he beat her so bad, she vomited and fainted. The woman wound up spending time in the hospital, suffering from brain damage from the beating and she's recovering slowly. The horse wound up in the hospital too, needing surgery after the way the SPCA cared for it. SPCA custodian, Andy, was convicted of assault on the woman, but he barely served time, of course, because he works for the SPCA!

Joe has $100,000 in legal fees and eventually won on appeal, He says he's waiting for the NJ news media to show an interest in the hidden video tape evidence he has of animal abuse by the SPCA, but he says the press seems to automatically take the SPCA's side.

So folks, how long are we going to let the SPCA's get away with all this? Help Joe Stuebing and the victims of Dave Garcia! They all have high legal bills that the SPCA needs to pay back to them. We need a letter writing campaign so that the SPCA of Texas and the New Jersey SPCA makes restitution on every case involving the confiscation of property and destruction of human and animal lives. Write your local legislators to get these people put out of business and to pay restitution!

GFN's investigators forwarded enough legal proof to various sources in Texas that the Julia Mc Murrey case had to be set aside as further investigations continue. GFN thanks Jane Slater, from CBS 19 Eyewitness News Tyler, Texas, for following up on the information we sent in.

Below is the transcript from the report by Ms. Slater on last nights CBS 19 Eyewitness News;

((Dan)) A HIGH PROFILE ANIMAL CRUELTY CASE HAS BEEN PUT ON HOLD...

((Kelli)) IT TURNS OUT ONE OF THE STATE'S KEY WITNESSES IS A WANTED MAN. CBS 19 JANE SLATER HAS MORE.

((Jane)) JULIA MCMURREY'S PAWS AROUND THE PLANET ANIMAL SHELTER WAS RAIDED BACK IN AUGUST OF 2003. LEADING THE INVESTIGATION WAS DALLAS S-P-C-A VICE PRESIDENT DAVE GARCIA... C-B-S 19 HAS LEARNED THAT GARCIA IS WANTED BY ARIZONA POLICE.

" These cases are going to be reset for the 17th of August." JUDGE FLOYD GETZ POSTPONED WHAT WAS TO BE JULIA MCMURREY'S LAST VISIT TO COURT. MCMURREY HAS BEEN TO COURT TWICE FACING CHARGES OF ANIMAL CRUELTY. SHE'S ALREADY RECEIVED ONE CONVICTION. THE OTHER ENDED IN A HUNG JURY. ONE OF THE KEY WITNESSES AGAINST MCMURRAY WAS S-P-C-A VICE PRESIDENT DAVE GARCIA.

HIS DAY'S AS A WITNESS COULD BE SHORT LIVED. JUDGE GETZ SAYS HE RECEIVED AN ANOYMOUS PACKET. INSIDE WERE DOCUMENTS LIKE THESE THAT APPEAR OFFICIAL, SHOWING DAVE GARCIA RACKED UP A OVER HALF A DOZEN D-W-I CONVICTIONS ACROSS THREE STATES. C-B-S 19 HAS CONFIRMED 2 OF THOSE CLAIMS. IN NOGALES ARIZONA, A 1990 D-U-I LANDED HIM A WARRANT FOR HIS ARREST....FOLLOWING A FAILURE TO APPEAR IN COURT.

IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY ANOTHER D-W-I IN 2000. BOTH THE STATE AND MCMURREY'S DEFENSE ARE NOW ALSO TRYING TO VERIFY THE CLAIMS.

Joel Baker, Julia McMurrey's Lawyer: "There is some information about the lead witness in this case and we need to look into some of those issues."

Matt Bingham, Smith Co. Dist. Atty.: "What I'm going to do is determine the veracity of that information and what it contains."

MATT BINGHAM SAYS HE WAS NEVER MADE AWARE OF GARCIA'S PAST. HE SAYS THE PROSECUTOR TRYING THE CASE ASKED GARCIA IF HE HAD A CRIMINAL HISTORY, HE SAYS GARCIA REPLIED NO. JUDGE GETZ HAS GIVEN BOTH SIDES 30 DAYS TO INVESTIGATE THE CLAIMS.

((Jane)) WE WERE NOT ABLE TO REACH DAVE GARCIA BUT WE DID SPEAK WITH S-P-C-A PRESIDENT JAMES BIAS. HE SAYS HE STANDS BEHIND GARCIA AND HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED BY ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT REGARDING THE CLAIMS.

AS FOR MCMURREY'S CASE, BINGHAM SAYS HE'S NOT DECIDED WHETHER OR NOT HE'LL DISMISS IT. DAN AND KELLI....

By CASEY KNAUPP, Staff Writer for the Tyler Morning Telegraph www.tylerpaper.com

Julia McMurrey's trial on charges of cruelty to animals was reset on Wednesday after a judge received an anonymous fax alleging that one of the state's key witnesses has a criminal record.

Ms. McMurrey was scheduled to be tried on three counts of animal cruelty. She has been through two trials already - the first ending in a misdemeanor conviction and the second a mistrial. She is charged with failing to provide proper care to individual dogs in each case - 198 were seized from her now-defunct rescue facility, PAWS Around the Planet, in 2003 by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Texas (SPCA) and local law enforcement.

County Court-at-Law Judge Floyd Getz received an anonymous fax containing allegations that Dave Garcia, vice president of affairs for SPCA, has a criminal history. The judge gave the information to prosecutors.

After a hearing on Wednesday, Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham said he had not had time to verify whether the fax was accurate. Prosecutors were granted additional time to review the information and the trial was reset for Aug. 17.

Defense attorney Joel Baker said that he's been getting mail with similar information for a while and that about two weeks ago, he received a packet with all of the allegations.

Baker said Garcia apparently has a driving while intoxicated conviction in Texas, as well as convictions in Missouri and Arizona. He also said Garcia has an active warrant out for his arrest from the 1990s but did not elaborate on the charges.

Bingham said the information could possibly be used to impeach the witness, to let the jury know about his prior convictions, but that wouldn't mean that his testimony for the state would be untrue. "If it turned out he had a criminal record, that doesn't mean she (Ms. McMurrey) didn't do it (commit the crime)," he said.

A mistrial was declared in April in Ms. McMurrey's second cruelty to an animal trial after a hung Smith County jury deliberated for about six hours. She was convicted in February of the first Class A misdemeanor case by a jury. She was sentenced to 180 days in jail and has since been released on bond pending her appeal.

After the mistrial, the state announced it would try the three remaining cases at the same time rather than separately as they had previously planned.

Ms. McMurrey, who began PAWS in 1997, testified during her first trial that her passion in life is still animals. The intention of the facility was to take on animals that were no longer wanted and to try to find them permanent homes.

People continuously "dumped" dogs, some of which were in poor shape, on her property. But Ms. McMurrey said she believed in euthanasia only as a last resort. She said she fed and watered the dogs every day, and worked long hours to clean and maintain the 10-acre lot that housed more than 300 dogs. Garcia testified that the facility and the dogs were in horrible conditions.

He said he observed dogs eating dead animals, decomposing dogs in cages, dirty water and other unacceptable living conditions at PAWS, located at 11804 Texas Highway 110 North. He outlined ways Ms. McMurrey could correct the problems and she agreed to comply within two weeks. But when they returned, it appeared that only the grass had been mowed.

Ms. McMurrey voluntarily gave up custody of the dogs a few days after her arrest on Sept. 11, 2003.

Assistant District Attorneys Brent Ratekin, Keith Downs and Stacy Cunningham have represented the state in her trials. Casey Knaupp covers county, state and federal courts. She can be reached at 903.596.6289. e-mail: news@tylerpaper.com

Roosters should have the right to trial before they are executed by nazi AR activists. Were the animals given a chance to life or doomed death? Under the animal welfare act the judge was to issue this death sentence, not the humane society! At a trial it should have been determined, not before the humane society acted against the law. Theft of livestock title section 667 of the criminal code, conspiracy against rights title 18 241 and the color of official rights 242 it also violates 5 amendment, 4th ,14th and the 7th amendment.

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