Colorado sheriff opens( Salazars BLM sold hundreds to this man) wild horse investigation
After months of false starts, state authorities have opened a formal criminal investigation into Tom Davis, a southern Colorado wild horse buyer who admitted to breaking state laws while shipping hundreds of federally protected wild horses to an unknown fate out of state.
A ProPublica report published in The Gazette in September detailed how Davis, a proponent of horse slaughter, purchased truckloads of protected wild horses from the Bureau of Land Management. Davis said he then shipped the horses to what he called 'good homes ' all over the country. None of the horses has been accounted for.
Davis admitted as much to ProPublica in 2012, saying he did not want brand inspectors to know where the horses were going.
When the reporter suggested that was illegal, Davis replied, 'Since when is anything in this country done legal? '
On Wednesday, the district attorney confirmed that the sheriff had opened an investigation. 'I can't say more than that, but I know they are working it, ' Mahonee said.
The federal government is also investigating Davis for allegedly selling wild horses to slaughter in violation of agreements he signed with the Bureau of Land Management.
Repeated calls to the spokesman for the Interior Department's inspector general's office regarding the investigation were not returned.
ref article http://gazette.com/colorado-sheriff-opens-wild-horse-investigation/article/1500476
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