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Rabbit-obsessed woman back in jail
Friday, July 03, 2009 | 1 comment(s)
PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon woman obsessed with bunnies has been ordered back behind bars after police found her in a hotel room with more than a dozen rabbits.
Washington County Circuit Judge Gayle Nachtigal ruled Thursday that 47-year-old Miriam Sakewitz violated her probation by having the rabbits. The judge sentenced the woman to 90 days in the county jail.
Sakewitz was arrested June 16 after she called a maintenance worker to her room at the Homestead Studio Suites Hotel in Tigard to fix a broken television set. The worker saw and smelled the rabbits, some of them hopping free.
Tigard police responded.
The woman’s legal problems began in 2006, when Hillsboro police found more than 150 rabbits in her home and dozens more bunny bodies in freezers. She was arrested on accusations of animal neglect. After pleading no contest, she was placed on five years probation, with one condition being that she stay away from rabbits.
Tigard Police spokesman Jim Wolf said Washington County animal control officers removed eight adult rabbits, five young ones and a dead one from the hotel room in the latest incident.
Washington County Circuit Judge Gayle Nachtigal ruled Thursday that 47-year-old Miriam Sakewitz violated her probation by having the rabbits. The judge sentenced the woman to 90 days in the county jail.
Sakewitz was arrested June 16 after she called a maintenance worker to her room at the Homestead Studio Suites Hotel in Tigard to fix a broken television set. The worker saw and smelled the rabbits, some of them hopping free.
Tigard police responded.
The woman’s legal problems began in 2006, when Hillsboro police found more than 150 rabbits in her home and dozens more bunny bodies in freezers. She was arrested on accusations of animal neglect. After pleading no contest, she was placed on five years probation, with one condition being that she stay away from rabbits.
Tigard Police spokesman Jim Wolf said Washington County animal control officers removed eight adult rabbits, five young ones and a dead one from the hotel room in the latest incident.
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