By Game Fowl News staff writer, Sue Beaulieu

According to a recent article in the Roanoke-Chowan News Herald, the previously scheduled November 13th trial of Andrew Benjamin Cook and Adria Joy Hinkle has been postponed to mid-January. Superior Court Judge Cy Grant, who is expected to preside over the case, moved the trial date up. He claimed that the Thanksgiving holiday would cause problems for jurors and others who had travel plans and such.

PETA employees, Andrew Benjamin Cook, 24, of 504 Tree Top Street, Virginia Beach, Va. and Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, of 1602 Claremont Ave., Norfolk, Va., were arrested on June 15, 2005.

David Harrel, the owner of D&E Properties, reported that he found numerous bags of dead animals in commercial dumpsters on the properties he manages. These garbage bags of dead animals were found over an 18 month period. He also said that the heavy-duty plastic bags were always dumped on Wednesdays.

This information led to a joint investigation between the Ahoskie Police and the Bertie County Sheriff's Office. Law enforcement officials were on a stake-out that June day when they saw Cook and Hinkle toss several black bags in a commercial dumpster behind the Ahoskie Newmarket Shopping Center's Piggly Wiggly. After running a license check on their white van, police discovered it was registered to PETA.

The plastic bags were taken out of the dumpster. Inside were seven dead puppies and 11 other freshly killed dogs. A limp and lifeless mother cat and her two kittens were found inside the van along with ten other murdered animals.

Hinkle and Cook took 22 of the animals they would kill on June 15th from the Bertie County Animal Shelter. They had picked up the cats and kittens from the Ahoskie Animal Hospital (AAH) and had promised the owner, Dr. Pat Proctor, they would find good homes for them. He told reporters the felines were in good health and adoptable.

By now we know that PETA does not believe we should own pets -- or animal of any kind, for that matter. Killing innocent, healthy animals is ANIMAL CRUELTY of the worst kind. It is cold-blooded MURDER.

Cook and Hinkle were originally charged with felony counts of cruelty to animals.

They were charged with obtaining property by false pretense, but we always knew that PETANs were liars.

They were also charged with illegal dumping and misdemeanor trespassing. These were the charges that Ingrid Newkirk seemed most concerned with.

Harrell told the press that he knew of 8 or 9 other times that bags full of dead animals had been removed from various dumpsters. Each time, they found approximately 20 dead animals. None of them looked sick or diseased -- in other words, these were once healthy animals that would have made good pets. I wonder just how many dogs and cats PETA has killed throughout the years?

Records from the Virginia State Veterinarian show that PETA killed 90 percent of the animals it took in for adoption in 2005. The group has put over 14,400 dogs and cats to death since 1998. http://www.virginia.gov

In another recent incident, PETA members stole a Walker Hound in Southhampton County. These hunting dogs are often allowed to roam loose during while tracking game. http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?s=5596254 Deputies reported that a witness saw the two women take the dog from the side of the road and put it inside a car that was clearly marked with the PETA insignia.

In fact, the hound belonged to the first Southampton County animal control officer on the scene! The ACO was on his way to pick up his dog when he received the call about a possible dognapping. Tracking collars are used on these dogs so that the owners can locate them after their hunting exercise.

PETA had dumped his dog's tracking collar on the side of the road. The PETA statement was that the two women picked up the dog for its own safety and were in the process of giving dog tag numbers to PETA so they could reach the dog owner. Right. Fortunately, the ACO officer/dog owner retrieved his animal before they could euthanize it and throw it in a dumpster.

26-year-old Carrie Beth Edwards of Norfolk and 25-year-old Andrea Florence Benoit of Chesapeake were charged with grand and petty larceny or in terms I can understand - Pet Theft.

Pet theft has long been a major platform in the animal rights campaign. A search for the term will turn up thousands of entries. Unfounded accusations and blatant misrepresentations fueled the fire for this witch hunt.

Game Fowl News staff writer, Sue Beaulieu, sent a strong letter to the Hertford County Superior Court and District Attorney Asbell on October 31, 2006 as follows. GFN encourages all of you to write similar letters:

• Hertford County
• Clerk of Superior Court
• Hertford County Courthouse
• King Street
• Winton, NC 27986
• Fax (252) 358-0793

• Valerie Mitchell Asbell
• District Attorney
• Bertie & Hertford County
• 418 South Everett Street, Suite A
• Ahoskie, NC 27910
• Fax (252) 209-6125

• RE:
• Andrew Cook and Adria Hinkle
• File 05CRS03510 - et al
• Animal Cruelty Felony Charges

Every pet owner, pet breeder and commercial animal enterprise urges you to vigorously prosecute Andrew Cook and Adria Hinkle to the full extent of the law.

These two PeTA employees killed adoptable puppies and kittens with a controlled substance, pentobarbital, and callously tossed their bodies into a grocery-store dumpster. As you know, they obtained the young animals under false pretenses. How many defenseless animals were killed by PeTA and their employees that we will never know about? It is utterly reprehensible that an organization that claims to promote and support animal rights would cruelly take their lives and dump them like so much garbage.

PETA’s massive euthanasia program has resulted in the deaths of over 12,400 companion animals since 1998. PETA’s income exceeded $29 million in 2004 and a miniscule amount has been devoted to actually caring for animals.

Since the inception of PeTA in 1980, Ingrid Newkirk has loudly renounced the torture and killing of a myriad of animals, including cows, minks, monkeys, elephants, fox, pigs and chicken. Hundreds of thousands of animal sympathizers, horrified by dramatic exposés, rushed to join PETA's ranks to end the suffering while PeTA raked in their cash.

However, Newkirk was conspicuously silent regarding the slaughter of hundreds of millions of companion animals at municipal pounds. PETA was silent about the execution of man's closest friends and housemates: dogs and cats. PETA uses animals to generate public sympathy and more importantly - gullible people's money. It is not about elevating animals' rights, but lowering our rights. We have seen how PETA et al treat both animals and people and it is cruel and evil.

PeTA's press release apologized for the illegal dumping but not for killing healthy, adoptable kittens, puppies and small dogs. Perhaps Ingrid Newkirk and PeTA should also be charged with animal cruelty.

Mental health professionals and top law enforcement officials consider the blatant disregard for life and desensitization to animal cruelty to be a red flag. In fact, the American Psychiatric Association identifies cruelty to animals as one of the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorders, and the FBI uses reports of these crimes in analyzing the threat potential of suspected and known criminals. Experts agree that it is the severity of the behavior—not the species of the victim—that matters.

On behalf of thousands of animal owners across the nation, we respectfully ask that, if convicted and in addition to serving a period of incarceration, Cook and Hinkle be required to undergo a thorough psychological evaluation followed by mandatory counseling at their own expense.

Neither Cook or Hinkle appears to be able or willing to provide even the most basic care to animals. People who demonstrate such blatant disregard for life and desensitization to killing domesticated pets can pose a serious risk to all animals—including humans—with whom they come into contact.

Because repeat crimes are the rule rather than the exception among animal abusers and given the defendants' apparent prolonged and utter disregard for the lives of animals in their custody, we implore your office to take every measure necessary to ensure that if they are convicted, they will be barred from all future contact with animals. Animals which remain in the custody of either Cook or Hinkle should be seized.

Thank you for your diligence in this matter, and for your time and dedication to prosecuting this case.

• Respectfully
• Sue Beaulieu

Please take a moment to click on the URL link below. What you'll find is the Texas SPCA asking for donations on "Behalf" of the "SPCA of Texas Board of Directors" . Your not donating to help any animals, your donating for their BIG FAT PAYCHECKS to euthanize animals!!!

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