I'm hesitantly posting this. I haven't already drawn any conclusions but odds are someone will misinterpret my post as if I have. I hope nobody mistakes my questions as accusations, insinuations, assumptions, etc. They're just a few things that I'm struggling with and I think might shed a bit more light on the whole ordeal.
I've read every post of this thread but there is still a chance I've overlooked something.
In the timeline that Mr. Markevich had given to "TripleMoonsExotics" in post #11, it states;
On April 14th I received a subpoena from my landlords to appear in court on April 21st. Now if that was not enough stress to deal with it gets worse.
At this time I’m in need of about $10,000.00 immediately to get me through April.
On April 15th I was in the store when suddenly the generator was turned off. I went outside to see what happened and standing there was Lehighton Police Chief Matthew Bender. He noted that I owed money to the Lehighton Borough for Electric Usage and started questioning me on how and why I didn’t pay my bill. I explained to him I didn’t have enough to pay it in full and a friend loaned me the money so I could keep the power on in the store etc. He told me I can’t use the generator at all and told me that Carbon County Domestics issued a warrant for my arrest. He then handcuffed me and took me to the station for a short period till I was transferred to the Carbon County Correctional Facility to start my six-month sentence. I called my girlfriend and told her to start moving everything thing out immediately. I also tried calling my landlord but he would not pick up the phone.
My girlfriend started moving out my animals on April 16th, and tried numerous times to reach my landlords but they failed to answer her calls so she left messages to them to let them know she was taking care of everything and was vacating the store for me since I was unable too.
On April 21st. my girlfriend went to the store and the landlords had someone come in to remove almost everything that was in the store under false pretenses that they were in trouble because they were abandoned without any heat, light or care when in fact it was very evident moving out has already been underway.
What happened in the landlord/tenant court case on April 21? Did the court automatically rule in the landlord's favor since you were not present? That's usually what happens but I don't want to assume here.
I may have missed it but I don't recall any efforts to remove snakes from the business between April 21 and July 22, the day the newspaper article claims 160 snakes were confiscated.
You stated in post #88;
The animals were never abandoned and my girlfriend just got out of the hospital April 15th from having her appendix removed and she went up the next day and started packing up and removing my animals. She notified my landlords of this and they rushed to have everything removed before she could remove anything else. This was all illegally done before any eviction notice. I heard from a witness the animals were removed on April 19th An eviction notice was granted on April 21st and I don't know how much time I had legally to get my stuff out but it was already removed!
Courts are notorious for issuing orders to be executed in increments of 30 days. From April 21 - July 22 there were 92 days. Makes me wonder if the court issued an eviction to be carried out after 90 days. The newspaper article didn't mention eviction procedures, though. It claimed the confiscation was based on abuse/neglect, abandonment.
In that last quote Mr. Markevich said that the landlords,
"...rushed to have everything removed before she could remove anything else."
However, the newspaper article claims that 160 snakes were removed from the store on July 22.
There's a pretty large gap in the timeline of defendants' actions in referrence to the store and/or snakes; from April 21 - July 5, the date Mr. Markevich contacted someone that appears to be an attorney. This was 17 days before the 160 snakes were confiscated.
I can't help but wonder why 160 snakes were at the store on July 22 if his GF began removing them on April 16 and he said that soon thereafter his landlords
"...rushed to have everything removed before she could remove anything else."
Mr. Markevich stated in post #88 -
"I heard from a witness the animals were removed on April 19th."
It seems to me that either:
- All snakes were removed and 160 were brought back on or before July 22,
- All snakes were removed on April 19 and the "160 snakes confiscated on July 22" story was conjured up by the police & newspaper.
- All but 160 snakes were removed by one, or both, parties.
I remember reading about this back in July. Where I read it, I can't remember, but I do remember the story. I can't remember if it was a newspaper article or a forum. According to the article linked in the first post the reason it's news now is because of the rescuer petitioning the courts to get rid of the animals, and I can't blame him for that. If the ads by Mr. Foley that Mr. Markovich presented were posted before October 23 it seems to me that Mr. Foley may have erred, although I doubt he did so intentionally.
Right now, if anyone is in need, deserving, of any help, I say it's Mr. Foley. He's got quite a job with taking care of all those snakes while Mr. Markevich plays hide - n -seek with the authorities. That's about the only real conclusion I can draw so far.
TripleMoonExotics
Lets start using the correct terminology here...The word is venomous.
Please don't take this personal, I honestly mean no harm, no foul. But - "poisonous" and "venomous" are scientifically equal, except for their typical delivery method. A venomous snake's venom is toxic, just like poison is. It can poison the bloodstream without being injected (or envenomated).
I have fallen into the reptile hobby's infatuation of "venomous is the proper word" syndrome myself before. But it's not true. Poison/Venomous - basically, chemically, scientifically one and the same.
Ya'll have a great day!
Michael Sanders
