Married Florida animal torturers admit using DONUTS to lure black bears to woods so their hunting dogs could rip the terrified animals apart
Husband and wife Charles L. Scarbrough, 32, and Hanna Weiner Scarbrough, 29, entered separate guilty pleas on May 13
Charles faces up to two years in prison, while Hannah was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $27,000 in fines
The two were arrested in 2018 along with seven other after a months-long investigation into the trapping and mauling of bears in the state
The couple posted videos and photos to social media showing mutilated bears and dogs chasing the animals into trees
Group used doughnuts to lure bears to be attacked by dogs. Two plotters just pleaded guilty Austin L. Miller, Ocala Star-Banner
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A married couple accused of participating in a horrific bear abuse scheme, where the animals were hunted by packs of dogs for pleasure, have pleaded guilty.
Separately, the man and woman entered their pleas in front of Circuit Judge Anthony Tatti on Thursday.
First up was Charles L. Scarbrough, 32. Standing beside his lawyer, the Callahan man entered his plea on charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, animal baiting and fighting, unlawful use of a two-way communicating device and unlawful taking of a black bear.