Pair Arrested Following Seizure Of Starving Horses In Tulsa County

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TULSA -- Two people are charged with animal cruelty after Tulsa County Sheriff's deputies seized more than two dozen horses from their property. 

Deputies say an anonymous caller tipped them off to the property on North Lewis.

Vicki Dodson and Robert Wayland were arrested Tuesday and charged with 14 counts each of animal cruelty and one count of leaving a carcass within a quarter mile of a highway. 

Deputies say they found a dead horse and a dead dog on the property and seized 15 starving horses.

"All the females, the mares, were either pregnant or in a state of malnourishment where their bones were showing and they didn't have much food storage and they weren't getting sufficient food to survive on," said Dep. David Long, Tulsa County Sheriff's Office.

The horses are being held at the Collinsville stockyards. A Tulsa County District Court judge will decide if their owners can get them back or if they'll be auctioned off.