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Sentencing For FBI Agent Convicted In Animal Cruelty Case Recheduled For Wednesday
Originally scheduled for Tuesday, the sentencing phase of local FBI Agent Lovett Leslie Ledger, Jr., who last April pleaded no contest to animal cruelty charges, has been postponed to Wednesday morning.
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WACO (July 07, 2009)-The sentencing phase of local FBI Agent Lovett Leslie Ledger, Jr., who pleaded no contest last April to animal cruelty charges, has been postponed to Wednesday morning.
Ledger, who was convicted for the shooting death of a 3- to-4 pound Chihuahua in February 2008, was expected to appear before Judge Matt Johnson’s 54th District State Court Tuesday morning but the hearing was rescheduled for Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.
The offense is a state jail felony, but prosecutors are recommending two years probation.
Ledger is seeking deferred adjudication probation, which means if he successfully completes the term of probation, the conviction will be expunged from his record.
Animal rights advocates Tuesday are on the McLennan County Courthouse steps distributing pink ribbons in honor of “Sassy,” the Chihuahua in question.
Ledger was indicted in July 2008 in the death of the dog.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Ledger told a witness that he shot the animal with a pump bb/pellet gun and said he, "must have pumped the gun up too much."
The dog was walking on Estes Road in front of its home when it was shot once.
It ran into the yard of one of Ledger's neighbors, where it died.
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But it IS your place to name names. There is you, the neighbors, the other neighbors, the new couple...All it takes for tyranny to succeed is for good people to do nothing....
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Frank-- It's not my place to name any names, but it is a neighboring family on Estes Lane. This happened approx. 5 years ago. They always suspected it was him, but never really had anything to go on. When this new incident occured, another neighbor had confirmed that he had seen Ledger shoot their dog one morning. It's just sad that people are afraid of him because he works for the FBI.
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So....notcrueltoanimals.....where did this happen and whos dog was it? This would have been good information prior to sentencing.
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