Half a herd of goats was already dead at a Cornwall farm when Department of Agriculture official arrived Friday to take them away in an investigation about them being mistreated.
The other half of surviving goats in a herd of 74 at Butterfield Farm Co. have been taken to an animal rehabilitation facility at York Correctional in Niantic, according to Raymond Connors, supervisor of the Animal Control Division of the state Department of Agriculture.
That was after a search and seizure warrant naming West Suffield resident Tara Bryson, 40, who operates the farm, was executed, the Republican-American reported. The warrant stems from an investigation into reports that the goats were mistreated, the newspaper reported.
It's unclear whether any charges have been filed at this time.
The state judicial website lists a Tara Ann Bryson, 40, with a 2011 conviction out of Danbury Superior Court for possession of a controlled substance or under four ounces of marijuana and use of drug paraphernalia. That stems from an arrest in July 2010 by the statewide narcotics task force. The state Department of Agriculture could not confirm whether it's the same person named in the search and seizure warrant on the farm.
