Woman who owns animal shelter in Gustavus says jewelry missing

GUSTAVUS — The woman charged with cruelty to animals and open dumping for her handling of dogs and other animals at her rural home has reported $3,450 worth of jewelry missing from her home.

Kathy Witzman, 58, operator of Humane Sanctuary Inc., on state Route 87, filed a report Feb. 21 with the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department, saying that jewelry from a jewelry box at her home was taken sometime between the time deputies arrested her early Feb. 12 and when she was released from the county jail the next day.

Witzman said she waited to report the missing items because she needed time to look for them, noting that a variety of people were in her house and that her things had been “tossed around.”

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