2 New Jersey women accused of running ‘puppy mill’ after 180 animals found in home - WGAU

BRICK TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Two New Jersey women are accused of moving a “puppy mill” aft 180 animals were recovered wrong their home, authorities said.

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Aimee Lonczak, 49, and Michele Nycz, 58, some of Brick Township, were charged with carnal cruelty and kid endangerment aft officials discovered the animals surviving successful unsanitary conditions, including galore confined to crates that were stacked connected apical of 1 another, NJ.com reported.

According to a quality release from the Brick Township Police Department, officers responded to the location astatine 7:30 p.m. EST connected Friday aft receiving an anonymous complaint.

Officers met with Lonczak and Nycz successful the driveway of the women’s location and said they could odor a “strong” odor and could perceive dogs barking, WNBC-TV reported.

The women gave support to the officers to participate the home, wherever they recovered stacks of carnal crates with dogs and cats wrong them, according to the tv station.

According to the constabulary department’s news release, officers initially believed determination were astir 30 animals wrong the residence. However, exigency crews aboriginal determined determination were 180 animals successful the home, including 135 dogs and 45 cats.

The effect teams said the residence was filled with carnal waste, and the dogs and cats were surviving successful “horrible and inhumane conditions.” At slightest 2 dormant dogs were removed from the home, constabulary said.

Eight animals were sent to an exigency veterinarian, WPIX-TV reported.

The residence was subsequently condemned by the Brick Township gathering and codification department, police said.

Public taxation documents revealed that Lonczak is the president of Crazy Rescue Ladies, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit that calls itself an carnal rescue group, NJ.com reported. Nycz was listed arsenic the nonprofit’s caput connected its 2018 taxation documents.

Calls to Crazy Rescue Ladies seeking remark person not been returned, according to the quality organization.

The 2 women were arrested. The charges of kid endangerment are related to Lonczak’s 16-year-old daughter, who was besides surviving successful the home, police said.

An probe is ongoing.

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