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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

I Was Right

I suspect I was right all the time about Kapone being missing. How much is the reward now and was it still collected? Now they're questioning the people where the dog was found. Like they are going to reveal some underworld dog smuggling ring. Supposedly after Shelby county crimestoppers received an anonymous tip. Kapone has suddenly been found. This had to be the most popular Pitt Bull in the Triun-State area. After all the hype and media attention has died down surrounding his disappearance. What made him show up unexpected in Senatobia Miss. six months later? He was never really missing.

Demetria Hogan always maintained she only picked up one dog. The surveillance cameras only saw one when she arrived at the shelter..Her employers and the public took the word of the Shoups over hers. She was taken to trial and fired from her job on pure speculation. I wish I could see the faces of all  those people who convicted her without proof. In hindsight would they at least admit they jumped to conclusions. This is probably the only place I'll get credit for my persistence of her innocence. But some will say that doesn't let her off the hook. Looks like I was right.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/dec/20/kapone-comes-home-missing-dog-found-alive-mississi/

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:41 PM

    Kapone not a healthy dog

    Checkup uncovers heart, lung issues
    By Sara Patterson

    Results from what was likely Kapone the dog's first veterinary checkup in the six months since he was picked up by Memphis Animal Services and then disappeared proved slightly disheartening.

    Suffering from heartworms, the 11-year-old pit bull has some lung congestion and an enlarged heart, according to owner Darrell Shoup, who reunited with the family pet in Senatobia, Miss., Tuesday.

    Kapone

    "Other than that, he's real healthy," Shoup said Wednesday.

    Senatobia police said the owners of the residence where Kapone was found were expected to give a statement to police Wednesday afternoon. Further information on the case was not provided, as both the police chief and investigator assigned to the case are on holiday vacation through the weekend. A message to the police chief was not returned by press time.

    Kapone escaped from his family's Cordova backyard with fellow pit bull, 3-year-old Jersey, on June 24. When owner Brooke Shoup went to the Memphis Animal Shelter and was only able to retrieve one of her dogs, she alerted the media, fearing Kapone had been killed or sold to a dogfighting circuit.

    The animal shelter employee who picked up both dogs, Demetria Hogan, was subsequently fired and faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.

    The Memphis Police Department has yet to provide the public with any clues as to how Kapone wound up 50 miles from home.

    A citywide search for Kapone commenced in July, with reward climbing to $8,000. An anonymous tipster called a Crime Stoppers hotline Sunday night with the dog's whereabouts, but according to animal advocate Beverly King who headed the fundraising, the informant didn't ask for the reward.

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