The former supervisor of Warrick County Animal Control and another former employee are facing new charges in connection with a state police investigation into misappropriated public funds and an alleged scheme to profit from the sale of unhoused dogs, the Courier & Press reported earlier this week .
Indiana State Police arrested two former Warrick County Animal Control employees. Former supervisor Danielle Barnes was arrested in December after a search was conducted in her home and former employee Susan Broshears was arrested last week.
What was the crime?
In a news release from Sunday afternoon, ISP Evansville District spokesman Sgt. Todd Ringle wrote that Barnes and Broshears leveraged their positions at Warrick County Animal Control for personal gain by charging improper fees for services and transferring custody of valuable, purebred dogs from animal control to Barnes’ nonprofit, among other allegations.
“According to records from Warrick County Animal Control, more than 1,000 animals had come in and out of their facility during 2022 and 2023,” Ringle wrote in the release. “When detectives examined adoption fee records, they discovered only a handful of fees being paid to Warrick County Animal Control. Most adoption fees were never deposited into their bank account.”