Man charged after allegedly selling family's horses to slaughterhouse

A southern Alberta man has been charged after he allegedly sold two horses that didn't belong to him to a slaughterhouse.

Alberta RCMP saidthey received a report Saturday that two horses had been sold without the owner's consent.

The victim told RCMPthat she had been boarding two horses at a farm near Stirling, Alta., for five years, but on April 9 she was told the farm's owner had passed away and she would need to relocate the horses by the end of April.

On April 28, the victim's daughter visited the farm about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary to collect the horses to move them to a new boarding facilitybut was told they had been sold.

RCMPinvestigatedand found the horses had been taken to a slaughterhouse in FortMacLeod,where they were killed. The man who sold them allegedly falsified a livestock manifest and equine information document that said he, not the victim, owned the horses.

WayneJubbwaschargedwith theft of cattle, trafficking stolen property and uttering forged documents.

He's scheduled to appear in Lethbridge Provincial Court on May 23.

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