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Missing Horses in Adoption Fraud --Socks
Second Wind Adoption Program SCNote from owner--Missing or Stolen?
News Article in Spartanburg
Paper - Supporters searching for adopted horses after
woman's arrest
Contact owner for more specific details we could not post on
this site. Socks: 1994 QH gelding, 16 hands, sorrel, trained in both western and english, sound for light pleasure riding (not more than 3 times a week), will carry any kid or beginner, great trail horse. Socks is only sound for light riding!!!! Socks could likely get overused because of temperament, just a really good boy. Socks was adopted on 12 September 2003 by Robin Hollingsworth and assumed sold illegally.
The alias's she has used during her 18 years of fraudulent activities that we found are: Paula Hall, Paula A. Hall, Ann Osborne, Robin Osborne, Robin Hollingsworth, Robin Balsinger, Robin Bordel, Robin Puckett, or Ann with any of those last names and Jackie Hollingsworth or Jackie Swaney. Beware!!! This woman is still running free in the Blacksburg, SC area. The grand jury will probably not be until spring of 2005!! Beware when selling or giving your horses away!!!
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: September 12th 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: Socks
breed: Quarter Horse cross
sex: gelding
color: chestnut/sorrel
age: foaled in 1994
weight: 1100
height: 16 hands
identifiable characteristics: blaze, LH sock and LF stocking and
RH stocking that goes up into front of hock, back of hock is not
white, extremely sweet boy but has always had lameness issues,
possibly in his shoulder, was suppose to be a light pleasure
mount, smooth ride and rocking horse canter. Certainly a horse
that would be easily over used and hurt by that. Well trained
and can be ridden by a beginner but is pretty much always off a
little.
how missing: adoption fraud by person (contact owner above for
more info) in Landrum/Blacksburg, SC, she frauded our
adoption application in order to get our horses to sell them, we
never give ownership to any of our adopters and she signed a
contract that says she does not own them and can not sell them
for life. She either sold or was preparing to sell 26 of our
horses, we have gotten all but 8 back, that are still missing.
She has been arrested on several counts of fraud regarding horse
buying and selling. She also lied to buyers about age, breed,
temperament, soundness, changed coggins and even drugged horses
to make them sound to be able to be ridden by buyers
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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