The bizarre case of two Fishersville residents accused of stealing and unlawfully killing a pig from the SPCA has entered its first day of trial. In Albemarle County Circuit Court on Thursday, 33-year-old Lee Edward Oakes Jr. and 27-year-old Jerelyn Aymarie Sutter pleaded not guilty to the three charges against each of them: felony killing of livestock, felony theft of livestock and misdemeanor animal cruelty. The pair was arrested on July 10, roughly a week after a months-old pig was taken from the Albemarle-Charlottesville SPCA, slaughtered and sent to a butcher. Authorities were able to retrieve the animal before it was butchered, and performed a necropsy that showed it had been stabbed...
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