Sentencing Set for Animal Abuser
Convicted animal abuser John Weinhart of Colton will be sentenced June 20 and could get a maximum prison term of 16 years, according to a Riverside County district attorney’s spokeswoman. Weinhart appeared Tuesday in Riverside Superior Court.
The former tiger sanctuary operator was convicted last month of 56 counts of animal cruelty and child endangerment after county authorities found dozens of dead tiger cubs stuffed in his freezers, tiger carcasses littering his property and alligators swimming in a bathtub during an April 2003 raid.
Weinhart will have a psychiatric evaluation at the California Institution for Men in Chino.
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