Cocaine found in 2 dogs that fatally mauled Ohio woman
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The dogs’ owners, Susan Withers and her son Adam Withers, were convicted of several charges related to the attack, including involuntary manslaughter.
One of the dogs, Apollo, had previously been designated as dangerous after attacking another dog and its owner in the same condo complex.
Adam Withers had also been arrested weeks before the fatal attack for acting erratically and having his dogs loose in the complex, where he admitted to using cocaine.
Two dogs that mauled a 73-year-old woman in Idaho last year had cocaine in their systems, according to pathology reports obtained this week by the Cincinnati Enquirer, part of the USA TODAY Network.
A jury convicted the owners of the dogs, Susan Withers and her son Adam Withers, of four counts of failure to confine a dog and two counts of involuntary manslaughter last week in the attack, according to court records obtained by USA TODAY.
The dogs, named Apollo and Echo, were killed by police shortly after the fatal attack on Jo Ann Echelbarger outside her condo in the village of Ashville, about 20 miles south of Columbus.
