{"id":27048,"date":"2013-12-05T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=27048"},"modified":"2013-12-05T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:36:51","slug":"wheatland-dog-breeder-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=27048","title":{"rendered":"Wheatland Dog Breeder Enters Alford Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dogswheatland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24448\" alt=\"dogswheatland\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dogswheatland.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dogswheatland.jpg 161w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dogswheatland-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Sentencing has been scheduled Jan. 6 for a North Dakota man accused of neglecting about 170 dogs at an apparent puppy mill at his rural Wheatland home.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fifty-one-year-old Darcy Smith on Wednesday entered an Alford plea to misdemeanor animal abuse. That means he does not admit guilt but acknowledges there is enough evidence to convict him.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Authorities seized the animals from Smith&#8217;s home in July. He later waived his rights to the animals and they were put up for adoption.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 KFGO radio reports that Smith could face up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine. Prosecutor Leah Viste tells the Forum the state will seek a sentence that prohibits Smith from owning any more dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Sentencing has been scheduled Jan. 6 for a North Dakota man accused of neglecting about 170 dogs at an apparent puppy mill at his rural Wheatland home. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fifty-one-year-old Darcy Smith on Wednesday entered an Alford plea to misdemeanor animal abuse. That means he does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33735,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27048\/revisions\/33735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}