Missing Horses in Adoption Fraud -- Basically a Dreamer
Note from owner--Missing or Stolen?
News Article in Spartanburg
Paper - Supporters searching for adopted horses after
woman's arrest - Basically a Dreamer "Dreamer": 1996 Registerd QH gelding, 15.3 hands, sound for all jobs. Green broke, still needs more training. Can be strong minded even in hand. Dreamer was adopted on 22 July 2003 by Robin Hollingsworth and 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
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: Basically a Dreamer
breed: Quarter Horse
sex: gelding
color: sorrel
age: foaled in 1996
weight: approx. 1300
height: 15 hands
identifiable characteristics:
- star, snip, sock on both hind feet,
- the right one is lower than the left
- registered with AQHA #3456989
- very green and can be strong willed
- on the ground and in the saddle. a bear to bridle
- distinct star and snip
- big butt and stock build,
- long body
Adoption fraud. The adopter did not own these horses to sell
them. She frauded her application just to get these horses to
sell them. Contact owner for more details: secondwindadopt@aol.com
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 horse 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 secondwindadopt@aol.com
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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