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Missing Horses in Adoption Fraud -- Andante
Note from owner--Missing or Stolen?
News Article in Spartanburg
Paper - Supporters searching for adopted horses after
woman's arrest - Andante: 1989 Thoroughbred gelding, 16.2 hands, Chestnut, what a looker..... and what a ride (well trained and has some knowledge of dressage, lateral moves, etc, staying sound for riding 2 days a week with no problems). Dante had RF knee surgery and is very limited to what he can do today. Absolutely no jumping!! Can get quick with a novice rider, must earn his respect. Hard keeper so could be thinner, the knee is a dead giveaway. Seems to be a little accident prone, strong minded. Robin Hollingsworth adopted Dante on 22 July 2003 and is assumed sold illegally.
Contact owner for more specific details we could not post on
this site.
Below is the form
submitted by
Celeita Kramer ( secondwindadopt@aol.com)
on Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 14:09:50
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real name: Celeita Kramer
owners name: Second Wind Adoption Program
city: West Union
state: West Virginia
zip: 26456
home phone: 304-873-3532
work phone: 304-873-1435 
other phone: 304-844-0896
fax: 304-873-3121
date fraud occurred: July 22 2003 was the date of adoption, she
started selling them as soon as she got them (there are several
she sold)
type of fraud : adoption fraud, adopter falsified adoption
application to get horses and sell them, we don't release
ownership for the life of the horse
city county of fraud : Landrum, Greenville County, SC 
horses name: Andante 
breed: Thoroughbred
sex: gelding
color: chestnut
age: born in 1989
weight: approx. 1260 but is a very hard keeper, could be very
thin if not cared for
height: 16.2 hh
identifiable characteristics:
- wide blaze to pointed snip
- right hind sock that is higher on back than front
- tattoo S29503
- front right knee has some lumps from an old surgery
- can be hot and a lot of horse
- well trained in jumping and dressage but can not
longer jump
- very hard keeper, tends to be a little accident
prone
Adante was adopted by a person in Landrum, SC, she signed a
contract that she will not move or sell the horse for the life
of the horse and she may have moved him to Blacksburg, SC and
then sold him on the internet or locally
local agency: Greenville White collar Crime Section
agency address: 305 E North St
agency city: Greenville
agency state: SC
agency zip: 29601
agency county: Greenville
agency phone: 864-467-5370
agency fax: 864-467-5267
agency report date: 3rd week in January 2003
agency case num: several cases involved in this, there are 8
horses still missing (there were 26 at one time)
agency contact: Detective Jim Perry
reward: No
other notes: This is adoption fraud. A person adopted this
horses using fraud in order to get them and sell them. We never
allow our horses to be sold or transferred. She has been
arrested on this and for falsifying or frauding people on
selling these horses. The horses could have been sold on
equine.com or dreamhorse.com and would have been in Landrum, SC
or Blacksburg, SC when they were sold. For more info about
this case contact owner from email address above.
Note from owner: From
what we understand since she frauded our application to get the
horses in order to be able to sell them that is fraud,
especially since she had people waiting at her farm to see them
to buy them when they arrived at her farm from us. If the
application would have all been accurate then she broke the
contract then it would be civil. We now consider them
stolen as a program because she was not suppose to move them
without our approval. Some have been gone since Mid October
according to her landlord
Supporters searching for
adopted horses after woman's arrest - According to
the March 18, 2004 issue of the Spartanburg Herald Journal Robin
Hollingsworth, 50, of 493 Pierce Road is free on a $10,000 bond
after Hollingsworth was arrested Friday by Spartanburg County
sheriff's deputies on charges of obtaining goods by false
pretense and forgery.
She is accused of selling a horse, "Cutlass," to
Pam Purdy of Campobello for $3,500 and altering paper-work
regulated by the state of South Carolina which confirmed the
horse's age and condition.
A report filed by the investigator stated that the horse was
owned by Second Wind Adoption of West Union, West Virginia,
which held the title that prohibited its sale.
Hollingsworth is facing a similar fraud charge in Greenville
County, authorities said.
She is also on federal probation for five years after
pleading guilty to false use of a Social Security number.
For more on this story go to: http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040318/NEWS/403180391/1035/COMMUNITY05
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