Drew is $2000 poorer

Charges Dropped In Goat Spray-Painting Case

(CBS/AP) MAHOPAC, N.Y. Criminal charges have been dropped against a Mahopac man whom police charged last fall with animal cruelty and burglary for breaking into a barn and spray-painting three goats.

Drew Gagnon, 37, was arrested in November after police said he broke into the barn on Croton Falls Road early Thanksgiving morning and used orange spray paint on the genitals of the three goats owned by the Fiero family.

Carmel police charged him with third-degree burglary, a felony, and three misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty.

In court last night, the goats' owner, Bryce Fiero, said he would withdraw the charges in exchange for Gagnon and his alleged accomplice, 34-year-old Douglas Bisio of Mahopac, making a donation to the Putnam Humane Society.

Bisio was charged with misdemeanor criminal facilitation for allegedly driving Gagnon to the barn.

The pair agreed to donate two thousand dollars and stay away from Fiero's property.