Overview
- Wilson County charged Dason Garner with keeping a stray animal, failure to surrender, and interfering with law enforcement after she declined to turn the dog over.
- A sheriff's spokesperson said Garner was instructed multiple times to hand over the dog and that officials even contacted her family members.
- Ring camera footage of the porch drop-off led to a separate charge against Ashley Baxter for animal abandonment.
- Garner reported the dog to Animal Control and reunited it with its owner in less than 24 hours after the pet had been missing for two months.
- Garner is due in court later in February, and she says she was fired from a Rocky Mount animal clinic as her family raises legal funds online.