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Grand Jury Indicts Morris County Woman Charged With Drowning Weeks-Old Puppy
UPDATE: Ten months after authorities said she confessed to drowning a 10-week-old puppy in a lake, a Morris County woman was indicted on animal cruelty charges by a grand jury in Paterson.
Tonya Fea, 48, who claimed the Golden Retriever was already dead, was scheduled for a March 16 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson.
Although state statutes allow a sentence of up to five years, she won’t likely go to prison but, rather, faces fines and court-imposed sanctions, including probation.
Fea, of Jefferson, was arrested last May thanks to a $12,000 reward posted by …