SUMTER, S.C. (AP) - Authorities have unearthed the remains of at least nine horses on land once owned by the family of South Carolina's suspended assistant agriculture commissioner.
A veterinarian will test the bones to figure out how the horses died. James Trexler and his mother, Hazelene, and brother Terry are being charged with abusing horses, after officials seized 28 malnourished animals in fields. Those horses are expected to survive.
The Trexler family is being inundated with waves of legal and financial problems. The family lost the farm where the horses were buried to foreclosure.
Hazelene and Terry Trexler are in jail and face animal abuse charges in Georgia where other starving horses were found. Terry Trexler is also facing a kidnapping charge after police say he stopped a Humane Society investigator from leaving his land when she showed up with a camera.
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