Provost guilty of animal cruelty, sentencing Friday

Three years after being charged with animal cruelty, Sharon Provost was convicted on June 23 in Adams County Superior Court. Sentencing for the Lind resident is set for Friday, July 15, at 2 p.m.

The case originated on July 12, 2008, when the Adams County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant and arrested Provost on East Third Street in Lind.

Jury selection was on June 22, and the jury found Provost guilty on four counts of first-degree animal cruelty and two counts of transporting or confining animals in an unsafe manner.

The jury went into deliberations at 10:44 a.m. and returned to the c...