UPDATE: Thomas McDaniel, Jr. was sentenced to four years of probation, one year for each of the first four counts that he pleaded guilty to, which will run consecutively. For the remaining charges, he was sentenced to one year of probation, which will run concurrent to the four years he was sentenced to.
Timothy Clowser was ordered to serve two year probation in both cases, but the sentences will run concurrently.
John Davis was sentenced to six months of probation and ordered to pay court costs.
WHAT WE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
In Indiana County Court today, sentencing is scheduled for several defendants, including a North Mahoning Township man who pleaded guilty to multiple counts of neglect of animals.
40-year-old Thomas McDaniel Jr. of Smicksburg was originally charged with ninety offenses, but fifteen were dropped at district court, leaving him to face 75 charges, both misdemeanor and summary, for cruelty to animals and neglect of animals. He pleaded guilty to 24 misdemeanor counts of neglect of animals.
The case began last April when Indiana County Humane Society officials seized about two dozen dogs from McDaniel’s property near Trade City. The dogs, mostly mixed border collies, were living in squalor inside a garage building along Route 210.
Also scheduled for sentencing today is 41-year-old Timothy George Clowser of Plumville, for guilty pleas to indecent exposure in one case from June of last year and to recklessly endangering another person in August of last year.
There is one other case in Indiana County Court today, a non-jury trial before President Judge William Martin. 58-year-old John James Davis of Windber is charged with a single count of theft by unlawful taking, in May of last year.
