CAMEO FARR Karma Baby...just now starting to roll!!!! I hope you are BROKE! This article is from the Knox News Sentential A woman who operated a pet crematory, allegedly in violation of state guidelines, in a remote area in Morgan County has been arrested on a five-count Morgan County grand jury indictment. Cameo Farr, 38, was arrested late Wednesday in the Coalfield area of Morgan County and has posted a $6,000 bond, Morgan County District Attorney General Russell Johnson said. Her arraignment is set for June 30. The indictments, returned from a Morgan County grand jury May 19, are for three counts of violation of the state’s hazardous waste management act and another misdemeanor violation of the state’s air pollution control act. She is accused of one felony involving violation of the hazardous waste management act. Assistant District Attorney Alyson Kennedy said the felony accusation involved various bags of “medical sharps,” including used needles, found by Morgan County deputies in January when they responded to a domestic complaint at Farr’s residence. Farr ran Elliott Pet Services, using a primitive device Johnson earlier described as resembling a pig roaster, in the front yard of her isolated Grouse Ridge Road residence at the base of Lone Mountain in Morgan County. Neighbors complained of the stench and billowing black smoke. State officials spent two days in December unearthing hundreds of dead animals from locations on her property and disposing of them at a permitted landfill. Johnson said his office fielded numerous complaints from outraged pet owners devastated by reports their dead pets may have been dumped in mass burial grounds rather than cremated. When the remains were unearthed, Farr said the animals weren’t to have been cremated, and they were buried properly. The prosecutor faced headwinds in his initial efforts to seek criminal charges against Farr because Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation officials said her activities “were not sufficiently egregious to warrant treating this as a criminal matter,” Johnson said his assistant, Kennedy, was earlier told by a TDEC official. “While TDEC does not find her conduct egregious, the public certainly does,” Johnson wrote in a letter to state lawmakers calling for tougher oversight of pet crematory operations. The DA persisted, calling five TDEC witnesses to testify before the grand jury. Neighbors also testified before grand jurors, Johnson said. Farr, who earlier said the notoriety bankrupted her, has been hit with steep civil penalties and was ordered to pay $10,000 to reimburse TDEC for the cleanup of the animals found buried on her property. © 2014 Knoxville News Sentinel. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 01:43:33 +0000
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