Lancaster County man jailed for killing stolen goats
LANCASTER - A man says he stole two goats to make his girlfriend happy but shot and killed the animals after they butted his pickup truck. Calvin Flahart pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals on Thursday in Lancaster County Court. A prosecutor says Flahart stole the goats and some farm equipment from a barn in Martic Township in January 2009. The foreclosed property belonged to his girlfriend's grandfather, and its contents were about to be auctioned. Flahart told a judge that he had killed the animals a few days later because "they were not nice goats. They head-butted my truck." Flahart did not return the goats, he said, because he was afraid of getting caught. He was sentenced to 67 days to 23 months in prison. - AP
LANCASTER - A man says he stole two goats to make his girlfriend happy but shot and killed the animals after they butted his pickup truck. Calvin Flahart pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals on Thursday in Lancaster County Court. A prosecutor says Flahart stole the goats and some farm equipment from a barn in Martic Township in January 2009. The foreclosed property belonged to his girlfriend's grandfather, and its contents were about to be auctioned. Flahart told a judge that he had killed the animals a few days later because "they were not nice goats. They head-butted my truck." Flahart did not return the goats, he said, because he was afraid of getting caught. He was sentenced to 67 days to 23 months in prison.
- AP