STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION AND WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. MORE NEWS IS COMING OUT OF LEXINGTON TONIGHT AS THE CLEVELAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ANNOUNCED THEY ARE LAUNCHING ANOTHER INVESTIGATION INTO THE LEXINGTON ANIMAL SHELTER. THESE ARE SOME OF THE IMAGES WE SHOWED YOU YESTERDAY SENT TO US BY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN LEXINGTON. >> THEY TOLD US ANIMALS WERE LAYING IN THEIR OWN URINE AND FECES INSIDE THEIR CAGES. HOWEVER, LEXINGTON POLICE CHIEF RONNIE JOHNSON SAYS THOSE ALLEGATIONS ARE NOT TRUE AND THEY HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE AND THINKS THIS INVESTIGATION IS RELATED TO A RECENT CONFRONTATION BETWEEN HIMSELF IN CLEVELAND COUNTY DEPUTIES.
HE GAVE NEWS FOUR'S TENOR DE LEON. A LOOK AROUND THE SHELTER TODAY. SO TANNER WAS GOOD THINGS. LOOK, A LOT. WELL, THE SHELTER WAS PRETTY SMALL AND IT WASN'T IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. IT'S ALSO RIGHT NEXT TO THE CITY'S WATER PLANT. THERE WERE 2 DOGS INSIDE IN THEIR CAGES WERE RELATIVELY CLEAN, BUT THERE WAS LIQUID COVERING THE FLOOR, BUT WE WERE TOLD IT WAS WATER. >> CHIEF JOHNSON SAYS THE NEW INVESTIGATION WILL GIVE THE SAME RESULT AS THE LAST NO VIOLATIONS TO BE FOUND. >> AND I KNOW RECENTLY THERE'S BEEN THIS INCIDENT LAST MONTH. THE HAPPENED NORTH OF TOWN HERE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN. AND THEN AFTER THAT, ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE INVESTIGATION THAT WAS CLOSED 5, 6 MONTHS AGO. >> CHIEF JOHNSON SAYS ITS BUT KILL YOU THAT AFTER AN INCIDENT WITH THE CLEVELAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE LAST MONTH, THEY CHOSE TO OPEN ANOTHER INVESTIGATION INTO THE LEXINGTON ANIMAL SHELTER AFTER THE FIRST ONE, THEY DID FOUND NO VIOLATIONS COMMITTED.
WAS TOLD. >> THROUGH THEIR INVESTIGATIONS AND THE COUNTY'S INVESTIGATION MADE US ALL NO WRONGDOING. THERE WAS NO A CRIMINAL ACTS WE DID NOT INCUR UNCOVER ANYTHING ILLEGAL AT THAT TIME, ALTHOUGH I DID HAVE GRAVE CONCERNS OVER THE THE WAY THESE >> ANIMALS ARE TO MAKE MY PAYMENTS INHUMANE. WE WE AS A SOCIETY NEED TO DO BETTER. >> THE AMES DIVISION ALSO CONDUCTED INVESTIGATION IN CONCLUDED SAYING, QUOTE, AT THE TIME OF THE INVESTIGATION, NO VIOLATIONS WERE IDENTIFIED RELATED TO LAWS AND RULES GOVERNED BY THE AMES DIVISION. BUT SHERIFF FAMOUS US AS NEW PHOTOS AND VIDEO SHOWN TO HIM AS I'M CONCERNED. IT WAS JUST WHEN WHEN WHEN. >> AGAIN, THEY CAME TO LIGHT AND SOME NEW ALLEGATIONS IN SUMMIT, NEW VIDEOS AND PHOTOS HAVE COME TO LIGHT THAT HAVE CAUSED CONCERN.
NOT JUST ABOUT THE LEGALITY OF THIS, BUT ALSO ABOUT THE INHUMANE TREATMENT OF THESE ANIMALS, ANIMALS LYING IN THEIR OWN URINE AND FECES ARE JUST SOME OF THE ALLEGATIONS. BUT COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE ALSO TOLD US THE SHELTER EUTHANIZED DOGS BY SHOOTING THEM. CHIEF JOHNSON SAYS THAT'S NOT TRUE. ONLY TIME THAT I'M AWARE OF THAT ANY ANIMAL HAS EVER BEEN SHOT IN THE HEAD ANYWHERE IN MY CAREER.
>> HAS BEEN INCIDENCES WHERE THERE'S AN IMMEDIATE NEED FOR IF THE ANIMAL GETS HIT BY A CAR BY A TRUCK OR SOMETHING OUT ON THE ROAD, IT CAN'T WALK OR ANYTHING IT'S DONE FOR EAST, THE SUFFERING OF THE ANIMALS. CHIEF JOHNSON DOUBLES DOWN SAYING THE CCS OWES INVESTIGATION WILL NOT FIND ANYTHING ILLEGAL OR CRIMINAL GOING ON. THAT'S WHY I BRING HERE BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING HERE TO SEE. >> NOW WE ALSO SPOKE WITH PAULA STANFORD, A MEMBER OF THE LEXINGTON ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS VOTED ON AND APPROVED BY LEXINGTON CITY COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER. AND THIS WAS AFTER THE FIRST INVESTIGATIONS CONCLUDED, SHE SAID THEIR DUTY IS TO ASSESS THE CURRENT SHELTER AND SEE WHERE IMPROVEMENTS CAN BE MADE. SEEING THEIR .