A woman obsessed with rabbits, known as the 'Bunny Lady', has been arrested after violating a court order that banned her from going within 100 yards of a rabbit.
Authorities were alerted on Tuesday, after an employee at a hotel in Portland, Oregon reported finding 16 rabbits in Miriam Sakewitz's room.
In April 2007, Sakewitz was sentenced to five years probation and given a court order banning her from owning any animals, or getting close to a rabbit. This followed from an incident in October 2006, when authorities confiscated almost 250 rabbits from her home in Hillsboro, Oregon - including around 100 dead bunnies, stored in freezers and refrigerators.
In January 2007, Sakewitz broke into the facility where the rescued rabbits were being cared for, and stole most of them back. She was arrested a few das later with eight live rabbits and two dead ones in her car.
Sakewitz spent a few days in jail later in the summer of 2007 after she was found in possession of a single rabbit. A subsequent check on her house failed to uncover any further rabbits, but did find a half-empty 10lb bag of carrots.
On Tuesday, animal control officers removed eight adult rabbits, five young rabbits, and one dead rabbit from Sakewitz's hotel room. She was returned to custody, and faces animal neglect charges.
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19-06-2009, 02:17 PM
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Rabbit-obsessed lady arrested over rabbit possession
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