Humboldt County investigators served a second search warrant on Tuesday morning at Miranda’s Rescue, a 50-acre animal rescue facility in Fortuna whose owner, Shannon Miranda, is suspected of killing dogs for profit and burying them on his property.
At a 2 p.m. press conference at the scene, Sheriff William Honsal said investigators used ground-penetrating radar to search for anomalies in the soil and confirmed that they had recovered the body of one horse and one smaller animal that could not yet be identified but which was “the size of a dog.”
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The search was carried out by members of the sheriff’s office and animal control, as well as representatives from several other state and federal agencies, including the California Department of Justice, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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