Wilson County Sheriff’s Department in Wilson NC KNEW there were dead dogs there and asked for the photos to be sent to draft enough evidence of their search and seizure warrants.  They all took oaths to uphold the law! NC GS 14-230 and NC GS 67 - Dogs subsection 16 state: 

If any clerk of any court of record, sheriff, magistrate, school board member, county commissioner, county surveyor, coroner, treasurer, or official of any of the State institutions, or of any county, city or town, shall willfully omit, neglect or refuse to discharge any of the duties of his office, for default whereof it is not elsewhere provided that he shall be indicted, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. If it shall be proved that such officer, after his qualification, willfully and corruptly omitted, neglected or refused to discharge any of the duties of his office, or willfully and corruptly violated his oath of office according to the true intent and meaning thereof, such officer shall be guilty of misbehavior in office, and shall be punished by removal therefrom under the sentence of the court as a part of the punishment for the offense.” 

and

”Any person failing to discharge any duty imposed upon him under this Article shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.”

respectfully. TWICE.

Underweight??? Try emaciated.

They also claimed there wasn’t bones. Photos don’t lie…there’s witnesses. There’s photographic and videography documentation from day one!

If you search the news, you’ll see this is the common strategy by this department to underplay their role, responsibility and duty in these cases.