A Long Island couple was charged with cruelty to animals after a combination of more than 200 cats, dogs, roosters, squirrels, ducks, rabbits, geese, ferrets and other animals were rescued from “extremely hazardous” conditions at a Northport home.
Authorities also assisted a 95-year-old woman “confined by debris” on the second floor of the residence, which Suffolk County prosecutors described Thursday as being infested with bugs and covered in “piles of waste and filth.”
Following a complaint of potential animal hoarding and a subsequent search of the home, Samantha Boyd, 57, was arrested Wednesday and charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty and endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person.
Boyd is currently certified by the New York State Department of Environmental Conse