Brian Travis is taping the video above. His son and wife are seen in the video below a couple months prior to the above raid. According to the Travis family, Steve Sprowl (the SPCA investigator) never attempted to contact them between the below video and the top video. Instead Sprowl shows up in March with the police, a warrant, farmers from other farms with trailers to steal the horses, and a vet Travis had a run in with a couple months earlier.



According to what I heard today on a radio program, Brian Travis says he did in fact have a shelter built for the horses out of view of the road (he has 4 acres of land).

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In summary ---

People were supposed to build shelter with three sides.
A search warrant could have been gotten if a judge ever thought it was important to invade privacy over this.
If the owners were in violation of shelter law, then they could be cited, maybe SPCA get involved then. Usually a judge would probably give you an order to comply by a certain date.

Instead SPCA gets a vet to come in and declare animals as ill to confiscate them.

All horse get sent to other farms where the horse thieves will end up keeping the horse when the owners cannot pay the stable fees and whatever else the SPCA tacks on the bill (shots, medicine, feed, etc). You have to repay that if you ever want to see horses again.

Yes, it's a felony to record a police officer in NH without their permission.

Finally, I still think you can video tape on your property with a notice sign posted... Not sure if they have 2-way consent laws. I wonder what happens if you have a security system and a cop comes to your house when you are not home.. That's probably a felony.

The neighboring farms of course lined up because they will get $$$$ for stealing horse. That's why they covered their license plates. (How is that legal?)

ummm... there are no lawyers clamoring to take this case? And were the horses mistreated? I'm guessing not, as the vet had just been there a few weeks ago and treated them himself. Perhaps that Vet should be taken to jail for animal cruelty.

Update (from radio show Friday): They won't show him the full warrant. The warrant is incomplete because there's an affidavit attachment that's sealed and they refuse to show to him. This is unconstitutional.

Also, he just had to pay $20k for a lawyer's retainer. Travis asked today on a news program, (paraphrase) "What did SPCA have to put up for this? What did the person who signed the affidavit have to put up?" What did they have to put up? Not a penny. They made a call to the police and everyone's tax dollars paid for it.

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