A former Penticton mother and her seven-year-old daughter have now been released from ICE detention in Texas, more than two weeks after they were detained.

On March 14, Tania Warner and her daughter Ayla were stopped at a Customs and Border Patrol checkpoint and taken to a processing facility for deportation.

They were both born in B.C. but have been living in Texas with Warner’s husband for the past five years.

In an update posted on X on Thursday, Amelia Boultbee, the Independent MLA who represents Penticton-Summerland, said that the mother and daughter were released at 1 p.m.

She said the duo’s bond hearing took place “significantly faster” as a result of the public pressure surrounding the case.

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“Thank you to everyone who spread awareness of this case, donated money, and sent your support and well wishes to the family,” Boultbee wrote.

“Your kindness and willingness to speak loudly against injustice and oppression made a difference.”

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Warner described the conditions inside the ICE detention centre in Texas as being similar to “prison.”

Warner had applied for immigration four years ago, but was denied because her husband is a registered sex offender in the state of Texas due to an incident from when he was a teenager.

Warner said their lawyer found a way to self-sponsor and his name is not attached to any of his wife’s or stepdaughter’s documents.

Immigration lawyer and policy analyst Richard Kurland, who is based in Vancouver and not directly connected to the case, said that even if Canadians have their paperwork up to date, they are still in jeopardy in the U.S.

“For any reason, the American immigration system can question your documents,” he said.

“Until those questions are answered, you may find yourself in a detention centre.”

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The Texas judge caught tearing into an IT worker in a now-viral video demanded he be shown respect as a “duly elected judge” and ordered a “subordinate” to do their job in newly surfaced emails.

Harris County Civil Court Judge Nathan Milliron aired his frustration in at least two heated exchanges with District Clerk Marilyn Burgess, outraged at the office’s “ineptitude,” emails obtained by Click 2 Houston revealed.

“My court will no longer be stagnant because of DCO’s ineptitude,” Milliron wrote in one email from May 2025.

“THIS IS NO LONGER AN ASK. GET ME A CLERK THAT RESPONDS TO ME and does the job!”

Milliron then demanded that he receive the “same respect as any other judge in the courthouse,” noting to Burgess that he is a “duly elected judge.”

“I’m not presently getting it. Fix this by Monday,” he ordered.

In another August 2025 email obtained by the outlet, Milliron called out a district clerk’s office employee and another official identified only as Lisa — flatly labeling her his “subordinate.”

“Lisa — you got an e-mail today… right? Own it. I’m the District Judge and your (sic) are absolutely a subordinate. You have someone that wants to be in 215th … you can’t stomach it… right? I will,” he wrote.

He then told Lisa that Burgess “doesn’t need to like it,” insisting the employee needs to do their job.

Milliron demanded that another employee be immediately assigned to him, closing out the tense email with “THAT IS AN ORDER!”

The emails surfaced amid mounting backlash over explosive courtroom exchanges in two viral videos in which he was seen berating an IT worker and threatening to cuff a defense attorney.

Beyond his courtroom conduct and combative emails, Milliron is now facing scrutiny over his compliance with state ethics laws, according to Click 2 Houston.

Texas Ethics Commission records obtained by the outlet show Milliron is delinquent on two required filings — a campaign finance report and a personal financial disclosure report.

Records show Milliron is facing a $1,000 civil penalty for missed campaign finance filings and a $500 fine for failing to submit required personal financial disclosures.

Milliron’s courtroom conduct has also prompted attorneys to speak out against his behavior.

Attorney James Stafford was ordered by Milliron to appear in his courtroom next week after emailing the judge and urging him to apologize for how he treated the IT worker.

“I’ve never seen a judge act this way,” Stafford told Click 2 Houston. “His conduct was way out of hand.”

FIRST ON FOX: The American Bar Association’s expected panelist from its council on law school accreditation ended up no-showing at a conservative Federalist Society event about the ABA’s “monopoly” on law school accreditation.

The Trump administration has accused the ABA of acting as a politicized gatekeeper, executive agencies have restricted their members from attending ABA events, and its diversity-related law school accreditation standards have been regarded as unlawful. Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi later escalated that effort by telling the ABA it would no longer receive special access to the judicial vetting process, which followed concerns its rating process for federal judicial nominees was biased as well. .

At the Thursday event, which was held across the street from where the ABA was holding its spring antitrust conference, America First Legal President Gene Hamilton suggested the ABA no-showed because the group’s position on the matter is “indefensible.” 

“I don’t know all the backstory. I mean, I’m just a moderator, but I think that there’s a certain amount – if I was a betting man – my suspicion is that the ABA’s status quo and their position and their involvement in the process is indefensible from the perspective of somebody who tries to present themselves as being an unbiased, uninterested party that is just simply involved in accrediting law schools,” said Hamilton.

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America First Legal President Gene Hamilton speaks at a Federalist Society event in Washington, D.C. on the American Bar Association’s “monopoly” over law school accreditation. (Fox News Digital)

 “When they’re confronted with hard facts and evidence and data and actual experiences from real people, multiple people, not just one person, but multiple people, it doesn’t make for a great environment if you’re trying to maintain an image that does not match reality.”

The panelists at Thursday’s event pointed to what they described as concrete, firsthand clashes with the ABA and the legal institutions tied to it. First Assistant Attorney General of Texas, Brent Webster, for example, argued that the politicization of the legal establishment became real for him when the State Bar of Texas sought to strip him and Attorney General Ken Paxton of their law licenses over litigation Texas had filed after the 2020 election. 

Webster said that fight, which ended with the Texas Supreme Court vindicating him, helped expose to Texas officials how deeply bar institutions had been “radicalized” and contributed to the state’s decision to loosen the ABA’s hold over law-school approval. 

First Assistant Attorney General of Texas, Brent Webster, (right) speaks alongside America First Legal President Gene Hamilton (left) at Federalist Society event in Washington, D.C. on the American Bar Association’s “monopoly” over law school accreditation. (Fox News Digital)

Meanwhile, David Dewhirst, Solicitor General for the State of Florida, made a parallel argument through the experience of St. Thomas University’s law school in Miami, which he said was left in prolonged uncertainty by the ABA over whether its Catholic identity could coexist with the ABA’s nondiscrimination standards, especially on sexual orientation and gender identity. 

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Together, those stories were presented as real-world examples of the broader complaint underscored at the Thursday event – that the ABA is no longer acting as a neutral professional body, but as an ideological gatekeeper with the power to shape who gets trained, licensed and recognized in the legal profession.

Florida Solicitor General David Dewhirst speaks at Federalist Society event in Washington, D.C. on the American Bar Association’s “monopoly” over law school accreditation. (Fox News Digital)

A representative from the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar said former Colorado Supreme Court Justice and Chair-elect of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Bar Admissions, Melissa Hart, was not even aware she had been listed as a panelist. They added that the invitation, sent to them on March 13, according to the Federalist Society, was “last-minute” and no one was available to attend, despite the Federalist society telling Fox News that their open invite to the ABA had been confirmed about a week after it was sent.

“From the perspective of the ABA, when they’re under significant pressure right now from both the federal administration, the states and a lot of people waking up to their shenanigans – it makes it a tough time to be in an environment that is a little bit more direct and blunt and to the point,” Hamilton added about the ABA’s absence at the event.

American Bar Association (ABA) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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At the event, Hamilton unveiled a new report from America First Legal, which showed ABA’s Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs, over the last decade, has produced 80% of left-leaning liberal arguments, 20% neutral and zero that are conservatively aligned. In all six cases, the ABA has filed amicus briefs involving Trump, the ABA went against the president or his allies.

“The ABA requires that amicus briefs be authorized by its board of governors and must be consistent with existing ABA policy or involve matters of ‘special significance to lawyers or the legal profession,'” a press release from AFL argued. “Briefs on birthright citizenship, transgender healthcare for minors and the Texas heartbeat law fall well outside that mandate,” AFL said in a press release announcing the new research.  

Brooke Burns was the hot blonde model turned actress in the late 1990s.

The Texas native was a model in Europe as she graced the cover of magazines like Marie Claire. 

She then turned her attention to acting as she was on the series Out Of The Blue before slipping into a red swimsuit for Baywatch then a yellow bathing suit for the spinoff Baywatch: Hawaii.

Next came a role opposite David Spade on Just Shoot Me!, and she was also on the Hawaii show North Shore with the late Shannen Doherty.

The leggy looker then became a TV host on shows like Tic-Tac-Dough.

This beauty also had an interesting romantic life: she was married to Julian McMahon  then she was rumored to be engaged to Bruce Willis for a short period.

See her now at 48 in a recent Instagram post. 

Brooke Burns was a hot thing in the 1990s: she was on Baywatch and Baywatch: Hawaii 

See from left with Brandy Ledford, Simmone Mackinnone and Stacy Lee Kamano in 2000 on Baywatch Hawaii

Burns was born in Dallas, Texas but at 16 moved with her family to Europe, living later in Paris, Milan, and Munich.

From 1998 to 2001, Burns starred in Baywatch and Baywatch: Hawaii as the character Jessie Owens.

She then worked on the prime time soap opera North Shore, which aired from 2004 to 2005. 

In 2006, she starred with Rebecca Romijn and Alexandra Barreto on Pepper Dennis. She played Kathy Dinkle. 

In 2009, Burns appeared in the first 12 episodes of the updated Melrose Place sow.

She played Vanessa, who was wed to Dr Michael Mancini, played by Thomas Calabro.

She was on the first season of the celebrity diving reality competition Splash.

In 2001 she had a role as Ugly Katrina in the comedy Shallow Hal with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black. 

Seen as Jessica ‘Jessie’ Owens on Baywatch

From left Kamano, Jason Brooks, Brandy Ledford, David Hasselhoff, Burns, Michael Bergin, Mackinnon, Jason Mamoa in 2000

Other TV shows Burns popped up on were Ally McBeal, Drop Dead Diva, CSI: Miami, To Tell the Truth, and Average Joe: Hawaii. 

In 1997 she starred in the film Conan The Adventurer.

She appeared in a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, co-starring Henry Winkler in 2008. 

Burns was married to actor Julian McMahon from 1999 to 2001. They have a daughter who was born in June 2000. Seen in 1999

Burns began dating actor Bruce Willis in August 2003 and there was talk they had gotten engaged, but they split in June 2004. Seen in 2003

Other films include Smokejumpers, Dancing Trees, Trophy Wife, Art of Travel and Time And Again. 

In 2017, she appeared as Sydney in a Hallmark movie, Christmas Connection, with Tom Everett Scott.

Burns was married to actor Julian McMahon from 1999 to 2001. 

McMahon was the son of the former Prime Minister of Australia Sir William McMahon.

They have a daughter who was born in June 2000.

She had the lead role in 2017’s Christmas Connection with Tom Everett Scott

The star proved she still looks stunning in this image shared to Instagram this week

The star is best know for the shows Nip/Tuck and FBI: Most Wanted.

He died in July 2025 at age 56 after a long illness. 

Burns began dating actor Bruce Willis in August 2003 and there was talk they had gotten engaged.

But they split in June 2004.

Willis, who is the ex-husband of A-list actress Demi Moore, went on to marry Emma Heming. 

Willis, 71, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in early 2023. 

He is currently living in his own home in Los Angeles as he gets care. 

In 2013, Burns married film director Gavin O’Connor who has made the films Miracle (2004), Warrior (2011), The Accountant (2016) and The Way Back (2020).

In 2005, Burns broke her neck in a diving accident and in May 2014 she was involved in a car crash in Los Angeles.

Her last acting role was in the 2020 TV movie Roux the Day: A Gourmet Detective Mystery. 

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says that the U.S. is “unquestionably winning the war” with Iran.

And the conservative firebrand and three-term senator from Texas tells Fox News Digital that, in his opinion, President Donald Trump’s “decision to launch this military action is the most consequential decision” of his presidency.

“If you look at how our military has carried out this action, it has been an incredible success,” Cruz emphasized in an interview this week.

But many Americans don’t agree with the senator’s reading on the nearly month-long strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Iran.

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Several new national surveys released this week, including a new Fox News poll, indicate that most Americans give the military strikes a thumbs down. But the surveys point to a continued broad partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans over the ongoing fighting in the volatile Middle East.

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The military attacks by the U.S. and Israel have resulted in the deaths of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials, and the decimation of the country’s military.

But Iran has retaliated with attacks against Israel and many of its other neighbors in the region.

A general view of Tehran, Iran with smoke visible in the distance after explosions were reported in the city, on March 2, 2026. (Contributor/Getty Images)

And Iran has targeted energy facilities with missile and drone attacks in a number of Persian Gulf nations. It has also made the Strait of Hormuz nearly impassable to commercial shipping, bringing to a halt roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply and in turn sending fuel prices skyrocketing in the U.S. and across the globe.

Asked about the ongoing operation, Cruz highlighted, “We’ve taken out virtually the entirety of their air defenses. We have taken out their short range and medium range ballistic missile launchers, their missiles, and their missile manufacturing capacity. Have taken out their drone launchers, their drones and their drone manufacturing capacity.”

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“We have executed over 9000 military strikes. We have sunk 140 of their ships. That is the largest… sinking of naval ships since World War Two, and on top of that, we’ve taken out the Ayatollah and virtually the entirety of the top military leaders. That is a profound victory,” the senator emphasized.

Cruz noted that he “spent the entire day” with Trump on the eve of the launch of the strikes, as the president traveled to Texas.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in a Whataburger restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 27, 2026.  (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

“The day before he launched this military action, I was on Air Force One with him. He was flying down to Texas, and then he and I were one on one in the Beast, the Presidential limo, and we spent most of the day talking about, should he launch this military action, or should he negotiate further.”

Cruz recollected, “What I told him at the time is, I said, I don’t think there’s anything to negotiate. The Ayatollah is negotiating in bad faith and the regime was weaker than it ever has been.”

The senator highlighted that “the Ayatollah and the mullahs in Iran have been waging war against the United States for 47 years… Iran has been the number one state funder of terrorism in the world.”

According to the Fox News poll, a third of voters nationwide said the U.S. military action against Iran will make America safer, with 44% saying less safe and nearly one in four (23%) saying the strikes will make no difference.

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Cruz disagrees.

“The president decimating this regime has made America substantially safer, and that is his responsibility as commander in chief,” the senator stressed.

Melvin Foster, a former college football star who later became a sheriff’s deputy in Texas, has died, according to an online obituary. He was 59.

Foster was a standout linebacker with the Iowa Hawkeyes. He was on the team that won a Big Ten Championship and made a Rose Bowl appearance. He led the team in tackles during his junior and senior seasons.

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Melvin Foster was a Harris County, Texas, sheriff’s deputy for 15 years. (Ed Gonzalez/@SheriffEd_HCSO/X)

After his collegiate career was over, he had a brief stint with the Dallas Cowboys.

He later joined the Harris County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office as a deputy sheriff and a field training officer. He was with the department for more than a decade.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez described Foster’s death as “unexpected.”

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An Iowa Hawkeyes helmet lays on the field before a football game against the Indiana Hoosiers Sept. 27, 2025 at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. (Julia Hansen/Iowa City Press-Citizen / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

“We’re saddened by the recent and unexpected passing of our teammate, @HCSOTexas Deputy Melvin Foster,” Gonzalez wrote on X. “Melvin was an incredible man and public servant. He leaves behind a strong legacy. He served Harris County for almost 15 years.

“Melvin played for @JackYatesHigh, Class of 1986. He played linebacker for the football team and participated in a state championship in 1985. He played college football for the @IowaFootball Hawkeyes and appeared in the Rose Bowl in 1991. He was awarded @USATODAY All-American, All-State honors.  He was a member of the @dallascowboys in 1992. He was inducted in the @HC_HSA Hall of Fame.

“He was an impactful leader and was beloved by his teammates. We extend our deepest condolences to his family. Melvin will be missed and never forgotten.”

A general view of the stadium before the ReliaQuest Bowl between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Vanderbilt Commodores at Raymond James Stadium on Dec. 31, 2025.  (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn Images)

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Foster was remembered in his obituary as a “giving man with a big heart.”

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By MELISSA KOENIG, US REPORTER

Published: 20:33 EDT, 23 March 2026 | Updated: 21:16 EDT, 23 March 2026

A massive oil refinery in Texas burst into flames, sending smoke billowing through the air Monday night.

Emergency crews rushed to the scene of the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas after multiple people in the neighborhood reported hearing a loud boom that rattled their homes, according to KPLC.

Black smoke was seen billowing up into the sky from the refinery, which processes crude oil into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel at a rate of 435,000 barrels each day. 

Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens said the explosion was likely caused by an industrial heater, KDFM reports. 

The explosion has prompted officials to issue a shelter-in-place order for the west part of the city, but no injuries have been reported.

Residents in the surrounding area were also being encouraged to remain indoors, keep windows and odors closed and follow all guidance from local officials. 

It comes amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil is transported.

A massive oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas burst into flames, sending smoke billowing through the air Monday night

The refinery processes crude oil into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel at a rate of 435,000 barrels each day

The explosion has prompted officials to issue a shelter-in-place order for the west part of the city

The shutdown has affected Americans at the pump especially, with the average price for a gallon of regular gas at $3.91, according to AAA. 

That’s an increase of 25 percent from a year ago and a shock rise of 33 percent from one month ago, just before the start of the war in Iran.

The Wall Street Journal has since polled economists to see how high oil prices would have to rise – and how long they’d have to stay elevated – to push the US economy towards recession.

They said that oil would have to stay around $138 a barrel for about three months to push the US economy towards a recession.

‘I think that if oil were to hold above $100 for the next three months, we’d likely see very challenging economic conditions in the US,’ Tim Rezvan, managing director oil & gas equity research at KeyBanc Capital Markets, told the Daily Mail.

Rezvan emphasized that even if the war were to end in a week, the lasting economic damage from higher oil prices could pose long-term challenges for the US economy.

When asked how high oil prices would need to go to lift the probability of a US recession, responses ranged from $90 a barrel to $200 – with an average estimate of $138.

According to oil market expert Dan Doyle, founder of Reliance Well Services and Arena Resources, domestic US oil production will not save us.

‘The longer the war goes on, the greater the recessionary risk,” Doyle told the Daily Mail’

The shutdown has affected Americans at the pump especially, with the average price for a gallon of regular gas at $3.91, according to AAA 

Economist Robert Fry said oil would need to be at $125 for eight weeks for the economy to be headed for recession.

‘My forecast is contingent on the assumption that the Strait of Hormuz will be fully open to tanker traffic by mid-April,’ Fry told the Wall Street Journal. ‘If it isn’t, oil prices will go much higher, and I will put a recession in my forecast.’

The economists see the probability of a US recession in the next 12 months at 32 percent – that’s up modestly from the 27 percent probability in the January survey.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated. 

It’s a grave situation.

A disturbed serial grave robber in Texas filmed himself throwing human remains over the fence at an FBI field office and then posted the video on YouTube, cops said.

Michael Chadwick Fry, 41, of Bartonville, Texas, said he was throwing the bucket of human bones to “summon” federal agents after stealing the remains from a mausoleum, according to the Bartonville Police Department.

He now faces two counts of abuse of a corpse and one count of tampering with evidence with intent to impair a human corpse, according to police.

Fry’s mother called police Monday after he went to her house and requested money for a U-Haul because he “had a body that needed to moved,” authorities said. He “became irate” at her over the phone call, leaving before cops arrived, according to an arrest warrant obtained by KDFW.

“Shortly thereafter, investigators received credible information from FBI Special Agents indicating that Fry had thrown a bucket containing human bones over the fence of the FBI Dallas Field Office,” according to the arrest warrant.

He shared evidence of his alleged crime by filming a video titled, “We send Elizabeth over the FBI fence to summon them by force” and posting it on YouTube, officials said.

In the video, Fry filmed himself speaking with a person behind a window outside the FBI office to seek a “status check” on an investigation about “what happened to me and my dead family and friends.”

After returning to his car, Fry is seen pulling a bucket containing the alleged remains out of the trunk and hurling them over a fence before driving off.

“There’s more videos coming. We’re going to take bones all over the place. I got more,” Fry said in the video as he drove away.

Fry allegedly stole an urn from a cemetery in Oklahoma City in February and raided a separate mausoleum in Denton, Texas, according to police.

He also searched for three cemeteries in Texas and Oklahoma on the GPS in his mother’s car.

He referred to the remains in the bucket as “Elizabeth Virginia Lyon,” according to the affidavit.

Authorities are carrying out DNA tests to identify the bones.

Fry has a lengthy rap sheet, according to the police.

In 2018, he drove his car into the KDFW studios in downtown Dallas, leaving behind a bright orange duffel bag that prompted a bomb squad response.

He was reportedly upset that cops had shot his friend.

Fry is currently in the Denton County Jail on $30,000 bond.

The owner of an animal rescue in Texas was arrested after a home inspection revealed she and her boyfriend were sheltering more than 80 dogs in grotesque conditions, as investigators fear upwards of 100 others may be dead, officials said.

The gruesome discovery at the home of Ashley McFadden, 26, came after she had asked the Tyler County Sheriff’s Office to do the probe in order “to approve her home as a safe place” for her business, Southeast Texas Paw Patrol, according to a release from the office.

During the February inspection, deputies were given free rein of McFadden’s home, which she shared with her 28-year-old boyfriend Timothy Brockman.

Officers knew something was amiss the moment they stepped onto the property and saw three dogs tethered to a chain while four others ran loose, the release said.

There was also a pen outside the home that McFadden explained was exclusively for the more aggressive mutts, including some that had previously escaped and killed other dogs.

The inside of the home was packed with overflowing kennels that didn’t appear to have been cleaned in days, if not weeks. A mother dog and her puppies were festering in their own fecal buildup in one crate, the sheriff’s office said.

The deputies tallied around 50 dogs at the residence.

McFadden was charged with two counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals as a felony and misdemeanor in February, the office said.

She was released on bond, with one condition, that she must rehome all of the dogs within 21 days.

Deputies returned to McFadden’s home in early March, however, and found that in the few weeks she was out on bond, she had somehow amassed even more dogs.

“The smell of methane gas, produced by dog feces, was overwhelming. Dog waste was in every room . . . It was an obvious danger to any person or animal behind closed doors and windows at the residence,” the sheriff’s office detailed.

Authorities estimated there were 15 to 20 dog carcasses stashed in several plastic totes, ice coolers, and dog crates all in varying degrees of decomposition, the release said.

Brockman, who was present during the inspection, explained that it was his job to bury the dead dogs.

The 54 dogs seized by the sheriff’s office were placed with the Who Saved Who animal rescue in Montgomery County, Texas.

Other Houston-area animal rescue groups separately claimed 30 dogs, pushing the grand total to 84, Fox 26 Houston reported. Investigators told the outlet they fear more than 100 dogs died at the property.

In a post on Southeast Texas Paw Patrol’s Facebook, McFadden wrote that she had “been rescuing precious doggies for a while now” before officially establishing the nonprofit in December 2025.

McFadden and Brockman were both charged with felony cruelty to non-livestock animals and misdemeanor cruelty to non-livestock animals. They are held on identical $70,000 bonds, according to the jail booking report.