MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – A 77-year-old Goose Creek man is facing multiple animal cruelty charges after dozens of dogs were found living in squalor at his Moncks Corner property. According to the Berkely County Sheriff’s Office, Loney Leroy Garrett is being charged with 35 counts of Ill Treatment of Animals, 35 counts of No Rabies Inoculations and four counts of Improper Burial as a result of the condition of the dogs discovered at a residence on Garretts Court.
In a release, the agency described the squalid conditions the dogs were found in:
Deputies discovered 35 dogs being kept in deplorable and unsanitary conditions. The animals were found confined in feces-filled crates with urine-soaked wooden boards. The Berkeley County Animal Cruelty Investigator noted that the dogs had no access to clean drinking water or adequate food. The dogs’ water buckets were filled with dirty, feces-contaminated liquid.
Deputies also found bones and skulls from animals who did not survive. Garrett was charged for not only keeping the dogs in terrible conditions, but also for transporting dogs across state lines without proper health certifications or rabies vaccinations.
The dogs rescued from Garrett’s property were taken to the Charleston Animal Society’s Moncks Corner campus for care.
As reported by WCSC News, Garrett was arrested for animal cruelty in 2013 after 200 dead dogs were found buried on the same property. For that incident, Garrett pleaded guilty to 10 counts of animal cruelty and spent just two years in prison.
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The evidence photos from that property are the kind of hard-to-look-at shots that still need to be clear for court — dim interiors and cluttered rooms mean a lot of noise and crushed shadows, and running them through a photo enhancer before filing helps document details like the bones and conditions without misrepresenting anything. Same workflow I use when a client sends low-res phone snaps of a shoot location; you fix what the lighting took away, you don’t rewrite the scene.
Hard to read. Thirty dogs in that kind of condition, and the remains of others still on the property — the number that stuck with me was 35 separate counts, for one man at 77. I keep wondering how long it went on before a neighbor or anyone else said something.
I help with a small shelter fundraiser most months, and this week it was a poster for our spring adoption day. I used ShimmerPic for the main image — one photo of a dog from our own kennel, turned into something that holds up at poster size — and I picked the look from a prompt gallery with real side-by-side output, so I could see what each one actually produced before I committed to it. The little date line drifted on the first run and I had to redo it, so I still set the text myself in the end. Twenty minutes total, which beats the flyer I hand-built last spring.
Reading about 35 dogs at one property, the part I keep thinking about is the paperwork behind a case like that — every animal needs a record. I foster, and last week I had to send a rescue a signed intake form and a page of vet receipts, with nothing but my phone at the kitchen table.
So I photographed each page and ran them through a browser-based scan to PDF tool, put both sides of my ID on one sheet, and sent it off. The files never left my device, which matters when a form has my address on it. Compression aims at the size you pick, so mine came out a bit over once and I just chose a smaller size.
This case really highlights how critical basic environmental standards are for animal welfare. When I’m assessing a space for suitability, I rely on a floor plan maker like Planorial to quickly visualize layout and functionality. Being able to switch between a 2D plan and a 3D view helps spot potential hazards or overcrowding issues that text reports alone might miss.
ABUSER & Mentally Deranged Loney Leroy Garrett charged — 30 DOGS in Squalor Amongst Bones of DEAD Dogs — Arrest ABUSER & KILLER for Animal suffering & deaths — PSYCHO will REPEAT if not stopped —
I wish we had the death sentence for these sick monsters. I truly don’t understand why we waste our taxpayer funding on giving these sick sadists humanity when they will NEVER change or show humanity themselves.
This will just happen again when he is released, out on a pathetic bail and then maybe after a very short time in prison because it’s 35 vs 200.
FINALLY, a happy ending for once. I am so grateful to the rescuers who reunited Layla with her family – thank you so much for saving her.
There is NOT ENOUGH TIME This MONSTER BELONGS IN HELL. HE NEEDS JAIL AND THEN HELL. BURN IN HELL YOU EVIL BASTARD FOREVER!!!
When there is a known convicted animal abuser it is the responsibility of animal control to monitor the property and abuser after he was released from prison. Authorities dropped the ball themselves! And those poor dogs suffered horrible conditions and deaths because of lack of duty. But now that same animal abuser has the opportunity to spend the rest of his miserable life back in prison. And try not to drop the ball again!!!
This piece of garbage needs put away for life or better yet, make him face the same conditions as those innocent dogs and face a slow death.
Only one place for this piece of shit , and that is in hell .
Dieser miese Drecksack sollte in den Bretterverschlag gesperrt werden in welchem er die bedauernswerten Tiere eingesperrt hatte. Soll er selbst in der Scheisse und dem Urin vegetieren, genau so wie er es den Tieren angetan hat.