Woman charged after 2 horses starve to death

Published 10:36 am Tuesday, April 22, 2014

PARK RAPIDS — A woman is accused of tying two horses to a tree in northern Minnesota, more than two weeks before the animals were found starved to death.

Twenty-eight-year-old Minden Crenshaw of Park Rapids faces three felony counts of mistreating animals.

Crenshaw posted bond Monday afternoon.

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According to the charges, a man out for a walk found the horse carcasses in the woods and contacted the Hubbard County sheriff’s office Saturday. One horse was tied to a tree while the other apparently had broken its rope.

The sheriff’s office says Crenshaw acknowledged tying her horses to a tree on a neighbor’s property after her mother refused to keep the animals at home.