Man charged after allegedly selling family's horses to slaughterhouse
The 2 horses were boarded at farm near Stirling, Alta.
A southern Alberta man has been charged after he allegedly sold two horses that didn't belong to him to a slaughterhouse.
Alberta RCMP said they received a report Saturday that two horses had been sold without the owner's consent.
The victim told RCMP that she had been boarding two horses at a farm near Stirling, Alta., for five years, but on April 9 she was told the farm's owner had passed away and she would need to relocate the horses by the end of April.
On April 28, the victim's daughter visited the farm about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary to collect the horses to move them to a new boarding facility but was told they had been sold.
RCMP investigated and found the horses had been taken to a slaughterhouse in Fort MacLeod, where they were killed. The man who sold them allegedly falsified a livestock manifest and equine information document that said he, not the victim, owned the horses.
Wayne Jubb was charged with theft of cattle, trafficking stolen property and uttering forged documents.
He's scheduled to appear in Lethbridge Provincial Court on May 23.