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Four More Animal Abuse Charges For Former Atwood Residents

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PUTNAM COUNTY — The Putnam County Grand Jury has issued indictments for animal cruelty against Tara Neutzler and Donald Schoenthal, the same couple who were charged with hundreds of counts of animal abuse in Carroll County earlier.
The couple was being held in the Putnam County Jail on $10,000 bond each. Neutzler, age 44, and Schoenthal, age 53, are charged with three counts of animal cruelty and one count of aggravated animal cruelty.
The indictments follow a seizure by Putnam County deputies in May of more than 40 animals from what Sheriff Eddie Farris called “Inhumane conditions” at their Locust Grove Rd. home.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office called it “Operation Storm’s End” and were alerted to the situation when they served a warrant on her for Tenn Care fraud earlier in the day and observed “numerous dogs and cats crammed in cages” in the yard and could smell a “distinct odor of urine, feces and decomposition.”
The sheriff’s office contacted Animal Rescue Corps of Lebanon, which organized the animal rescue of their Atwood home in Carroll County earlier.
In the weeks following the May raid on their Putnam County home, Carroll County Circuit Court Judge Donald Parish ordered they be banned from owning or possessing animals for 10 years.
The couple entered into a plea agreement in Carroll County and they agreed to surrender their animals from both the Carroll County and Putnam counties to the Animal Rescue Corps.

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