Undercover sheriff's deputies arrested a Pennsylvania man Friday night on suspicion he traveled to Arizona to have sex with a horse.
Michael Crawford, 68, landed in Phoenix believing he would meet with a horse owner he'd been corresponding with online, according to a statement released by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
Crawford hoped the fictitious owner would allow Crawford to engage in "perverted" sex acts with an animal, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said at a press conference Sunday.
Crawford posted an ad on a popular website soliciting a willing horse owner, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Investigators in the Animal Crimes Investigations Unit opened the case in October and corresponded with Crawford via e-mail and phone-call conversations.
Many exchanges graphically detailed what Crawford intended to do once he arrived in Arizona. In an e-mail released by the Sheriff's Office, Crawford said he was looking forward to the visit and described his desires.
Crawford arrived late Friday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, where he was met by deputies. They took Crawford to a trailer furnished by a posse volunteer and located near Southern Avenue and Avondale Boulevard in Tolleson, where Crawford was shown two ponies.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio talks to the media Sunday, July 12, while discussing the arrest of a man accused of wanting to perform sex acts with a horse.
Following the equines' presentation, Crawford was arrested and booked into Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of a bestiality charge, a Class 6 felony.
Arpaio said Crawford told deputies he didn't understand why he was taken into custody, because he had not committed any sex acts with the Tolleson horses. But Crawford told deputies he had engaged in acts of bestiality since 1970, Arpaio said.
"This is animal cruelty; there is not enough teeth in the law for animal cruelty," Arpaio said. "He would have gotten away with it if he'd picked the wrong county and the wrong sheriff."
Arpaio said this is the eighth time Maricopa County sheriff's deputies have made a bestiality arrest in the past five years.
The perp was right that the horse on the left really was prettier.
He mentions a black stallion pony that he abused in Tennessee. So this was gay bestiality, not your regular same-sex bestiality. It seems likely this perv wanted the passive sexual role for himself.
He mentions a black stallion pony that he abused in Tennessee. So this was gay bestiality, not your regular same-sex bestiality. It seems likely this perv wanted the passive sexual role for himself.
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Is the way he chooses to express his love covered by due process rights emanating from the penumbrae of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?
These days, I'd hate to ask the Supreme Court such a question.
In addition, if this guy plays the passive role with My Little Pony, then the pony isn't actually being forced to do anything. So the consent issue is diminished or eliminated.
I would hate to let Anthony Kennedy weigh in on the legality.
In addition, if this guy plays the passive role with My Little Pony, then the pony isn't actually being forced to do anything. So the consent issue is diminished or eliminated.
He might have given the horse a carrot. Recall Neal Horsley from a few years back.
Neal Horsley returned to the Alan Colmes Radio Show Thursday night to defend his history of his, er, um, fancy of a certain mule in his pre-teen life of a "normal" farm boy. It was a natural occurence, he said, like that of a mutt that will hump everything warm and wet in sight. He maintained that he did not rape the mule. Horsley claimed that the mule consented and was a willing consultant in this match due to the fact that the mule was clearly a whore for accepting the gift of an ear of corn for the sexual act. Now if you are doing a double take on that piece of information, I should advise you, he really said it.