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PHOENIX<\/strong> – Officials with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office say multiple dogs were found living in filthy conditions at a property within the county.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Per a statement, MCSO’s Animal Crimes Unit served a search warrant on Feb. 18 in the area of Old US 80 and Salome Highway<\/a> for nine dogs that were described as “living in filthy conditions and not provided with adequate food, water, or shelter.”<\/p>\n Investigators said the dogs were living with a woman named Gina Steffes.<\/p>\n “However, she moved the RV once she became aware that the Animal Crimes Unit was conducting an investigation and abandoned the dogs,” read a portion of MCSO’s statement. “The dogs have been running loose as well as kenneled on the property. Neighbors have made numerous complaints alleging that she is neglecting the animals.”<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Investigators said they tried to contact Steffes, but such efforts have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n Area where the incident happened<\/strong><\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information for this article was gathered from a statement released by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n Pets and Animals<\/a>Maricopa County<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – Officials with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office say multiple dogs were found living in filthy conditions…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":599355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,50,8047,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-599354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-maricopa-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pets-animals","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116093375542629226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}