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
 

email: secondwindadopt@aol.com

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: adopted on August 9th 2003 and was listed for sale right after that

 

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: Skip-A-Bar-Trademark

 

breed: Quarter Horse

 

sex: gelding

 

color: sorrell

 

age: foaled in 1992

 

weight: 1300

 

height: 15 hands

 

identifiable characteristics: star, strip, snip, 2 socks, registered with AQHA, may have special shoes on and may be lame from navicular, he can not be ridden but historically this seller has drugged all her horses and said they were all sound. he is not. Was a former halter horse so still very muscled, a very sweet horse... would be an easy one to get abused or over used by someone

 

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 email: jperry@greenvillecounty.org

 

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

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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

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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