A man hired to train and care for a woman’s horse was caught on video punching and kicking the animal, leading to his arrest, Florida deputies said.
The horse’s owner shared footage of Benito Cotto Colon abusing her Bay Paso Fino horse with an agriculture investigator with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, January 15, according to deputies.
She told the investigator, Justin McClure, in an email that she’d hired Cotto Colon, 34, as a horse trainer more than a year and a half earlier, the sheriff’s office said in a Tuesday, January 20, news release.
When McClure watched the video s...
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