ALBANY COUNTY, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) – New information on an animal cruelty case where authorities removed over 100 animals from an unregistered rescue organization. The operators pleaded guilty and NEWS10 has the latest on the plea deal and those animals.
One of the rescued animals, Sprite, was in such bad condition when that search warrant was executed at “Empawthy Rescue” that officers initially thought the small puppy was dead.
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Operators Andrew Tremblay and Jennifer Uhl each pleaded guilty to 10 counts of animal cruelty – satisfying all 102 animal cruelty charges each of the defendants faced.
The animals were rescued on January 17. Andrew Fiumano was the lead investigator and said they were most shocked by the scale of the rescue hoarding situation.
“Crates and cages stacked on top of each other. Animal feces and waste on the floor, vomit, animal food all over the place. The air was very noxious. There were high levels of ammonia inside. So overall, it was a very overcrowded and unsanitary condition for the animals to live in,” said Fiumano.