Elkhart Prosecutor to Reinvestigate Claim RV Workers Put Cats in Trash Compactor

Animal cruelty charges dismissed

A clerical error has led to the dismissal of animal cruelty charges filed against three former employees of an RV manufacturing company in Elkhart, Indiana.

Animal cruelty charges dropped

MIDDLEBURY — Charges have been dropped and arrest warrants recalled in the cases of three RV factory employees accused of inhumanely killing cats.

Jayco animal cruelty case dropped

ELKHART — Allegations against three men accused of animal cruelty at Jayco have had their charges dropped due to a need for further investigation, according to Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker.

Jayco Cat Compactor Charges Dropped

Source: Photo: (gorodenkoff/getty images) MIDDLEBURY, Ind. — Charges have been dropped against three men who work for the Jayco RV company in Middlebury, who are accused of putting live cats in a trash compactor. The charges were dismissed, according to MyCase, but it was unclear why. The three men, John Lipscomb 44; Travis McKay, 29 and Arlin Hochstetler, 31, were each charged this week with torturing or mutilating a vertebrate animal, which ar…

Elkhart prosecutor to reinvestigate claim RV workers put cats in trash compactor

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Animal cruelty charges dropped - Finnoexpert

MIDDLEBURY — Charges have been dropped and arrest warrants recalled in the cases of three RV factory employees accused of inhumanely killing cats. Court documents filed Monday charged Travis McKay, John Lipscomb and Arlin Hochstetler each with two counts of torturing an animal, a Level 6 felony. They were charged after the Middlebury Police Department responded to a report on Feb. 27 that they placed two live cats into a trash compactor at a Jay…