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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. - 
  
 The El Paso County Sheriff's Office issued a release at 10 p.m. Saturday updating its investigation into horses at a barn in Black Forest. 
  
 The release reads as follows: 
  
 There has been a great deal of outcry about the situation involving the horses in the Black Forest area. We recognize this to be an emotional issue for many citizens, and in light of that, the Sheriff's Office would like to provide some additional facts about the case. 
  
  
  
 Friday, September 19, 2014, members of our Investigations Division and our Mounted Unit, skilled in the investigation of animal cruelty and neglect cases involving horses, responded to the property off of Burgess Road to conduct the initial investigation. 
  
  
  
 After our investigators arrived on scene, they determined that while the appearance of the animals was visually disturbing, none of the horses were in immediate danger and none of them had to be euthanized. As such, investigators had no legal right to seize the horses at that time. We are looking into the cause of death of the deceased animals. 
  
  
  
 Members of our Mounted Unit are in contact with the horse owner, who is cooperating and receptive to working on a plan of action for continuing care of the animals and improving their living conditions. They have been provided with fresh food and water, (which they had along along) and the owner is making arrangements to further clean up the property. 
  
  
  
 Rest assured, had any of the animals been in imminent jeopardy, they would have been removed from the location. The Sheriff's Office has had to do that in previous instances and would not have hesitated in this case should it have been necessary. We have a number of large animal rescue groups we work with in those cases. 
  
  
  
 The Sheriff's Office truly appreciates the outpouring of concern the citizens have shown in this case and will make use of the generous offers should they become necessary. 
  
  
  
  
  
 Sgt. Gregory White 
  
 El Paso County Sheriff’s Office 
  
 Public Information Officer/Legislative Liaison ||||| More Video... 
  
 A horse owner in Black Forest who is facing animal cruelty charges pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday, according to The Gazette. 
  
 The horses and llamas were rescued from a barn in Black Forest in September. 
  
 The animals appeared to have been badly abused for a long time. 
  
 A trial for Sherri Brunzell has been set for February 2015. 
  
 At the time the animals were discovered, the state humane society took the horses to an undisclosed animal rescue facility. The llamas were taken to a separate facility. 
  
 Brunzell, has been charged with animal cruelty. Due to these being misdemeanor charges, Brunzell was ticketed; she was not arrested. 
  
 The animals were discovered living among the remains of nearly a dozen dead horses. The 10 surviving horses and four llamas did not look healthy, though authorities said none appeared to be in immediate danger. 
  
 Denise Pipher had been living on the Burgess Road property since August, but was not aware of what was in the barn until Friday afternoon when one of her German Shepherds ran into the barn. Pipher's daughter-in-law followed the dog in and made the gruesome discovery. 
  
 "Diana went in to get her [the dog] because I couldn't climb over the pallets, and then she just started stepping all over...she sees all these bones and the feces are like 6 feet deep in there," Pipher told 11 News. 
  
 "The people that rented this barn were very private, and now I know why," Pipher's daughter-in-law Diana Ragula said. "I asked her when I first met her, I said, 'Do you need any help in the barn? If so let me know.' She said 'no,' I said, 'okay.' ... She didn't want anyone near the barn." 
  
 Pipher and Ragula remain horrified and baffled at what was happening in their barn. 
  
 "They just laid down and died, and decomposed right where they laid. And there's tarps over these and there's feces on top of these bodies that were just covered," Pipher said. 
  
 "They [the surviving animals] couldn't say nothing, they can't yell for help, they're stuck in there behind these walls and nobody else gets to see them," Ragula said. 
  
 Thanks to Pipher and Ragula, authorities were called, and four days later the surviving animals left the property for good. 
  
 Neighbors say they have been gutted by what they learned was allegedly happening behind closed doors on that property, and were relieved to watch the rescue Monday. 
  
 "It's despicable and it's been haunting me since I saw the news on Friday that it's in my community," Laura Easom said. "I don't know why anyone would have an animal--whether it's a mouse, a horse or an elephant--and treat them like this. They count on us so much." 
  
 "To see them being rescued and whinnying and moving...very thankful. I'm sure I speak for all of our Black Forest residents and all of our riding clubs," Linda Moneymaker said. 
  
 The El Paso County Sheriff's Office says the reason for the four-day delay between the discovery of the abused animals and their rescue was because one of their veterinarians, who had worked on similar cases, had to make an assessment first. Once the vet did so, the sheriff's office says they then had the legal right to seize the horses, and made arrangements to do so. 
  
 "In order to seize somebody's livestock, there's a very specific set of criteria that we have to follow," Sgt. Greg White with EPSO explained. 
  
 White said Brunzell was being "very cooperative." 
  
 11 News spoke with the suspect in September, who maintains that she did nothing wrong. Brunzell says her horses died of old age last winter, but because the ground was frozen she was unable to bury them. Brunzell told 11 News she instead put down a tarp and used a product to dissolve their bodies. 
  
 When 11 News asked why, eight months later, the horse carcasses were still in the barn, she said she had other things going on and was "going to take care of it." 
  
 Brunzell said the other horses appeared thin because it's between seasons, but that they are healthy. 
  
 If Brunzell is found guilty of animal abuse, she could face anywhere from six to 18 months in jail, or a $500 to $5,000 fine. The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is currently heading up the investigation, but at Tuesday's county commissioners meeting District Attorney Dan May said his office would like to be involved. 
  
 County Commissioner Darryl Glenn said he had received more than 1,500 emails in a 24-hour span from people all over the world inquiring about the horses. |||||
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Authorities say a special unit that responds to animal abuse will handle a case involving more than a dozen dead and malnourished horses found in a Colorado barn. KRDO-TV reports that the El Paso County Sheriff's Office mounted unit is investigating the Friday discovery of the horses in Black Forest, near Colorado Springs. A woman renting the property says she found the dead horses—some no more than skeletons—under Lye and tarps, when one of the German Shepherds she's raising broke free into the barn, KKTV reports. At least eight horses were alive but in extremely poor health. Sgt. Gregory White says investigators could not legally seize the living horses because they were not in immediate danger. Authorities gave them water and food. White says the woman who owns the horses has been cooperative in making a plan to improve their health and conditions and has agreed to clean the property. She isn't facing charges but is "under supervision" by authorities, KKTV reports. (Read about an elephant sanctuary founder who was "crushed by an old friend.")