by JP Schwmon #SituationUpdates<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Youth farmer and Cultural Ambassador Hance John has filed a criminal complaint after 3 pigs from his recently rebranded farming efforts were stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometime between 12 and 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday January 11 the animals were slaughtered on the Westfield farm which is located in Evesham. Their carcasses were dragged off and the animals\u2019 entrails left in pools of blood onsite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John, who is currently overseas on vacation, told Asbert News Network that his farm manager called him with the disturbing news about 5:30 a.m Eastern Standard Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe told me they killed them right on the spot and they took out the belly and all these things deh in the pen with a whole heap ah blood\u2026. I have young pigs about 5 months or so; he told me that it was the three big ones that they took.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey were good sized because we are feeding them well, fattening them up because we want to get them up and ready so we feed them twice per day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the 8 young pigs in the Westfield husbandry, John said, the thieves made off with one gilt and two barrows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI know the guys in the area who are carrying out these types of criminal activities and everyone in the community know who they are. They are well aware of who they are, they are well aware of what they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd they have a style that they are accustomed to do \u2013 to take out the stomachs and leave the pig belly. So it\u2019s easy to associate them with the act; they repeatedly do these things. They have a pattern and people know who they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey have a style, they leave their trademark \u2013 taking out the pig intestines and leaving it on the ground. Is one set of people who doing that because they want to make the carcass light, \u201d John shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The farmlands were inherited from John\u2019s father, Westfield Theodore John, a well-known farmer in the area, and are located nearby two of his siblings\u2019 homes. According to John, his brother \u201cheard the dogs barking and the pigs making noise but he looked about and then the noises stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later that morning, when the crime was discovered, the farmers realized that the pig feed, which was stored onsite, was used as a ploy to quiet the disturbed animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI strongly believe that it\u2019s not one person [who was involved in the theft] because to move 3 good sized pigs \u2013 average weight say around 30 or 40 pounds or even more because when I left they were good sized \u2013 compared to where they were when they were slaughtered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe least I would have gotten for one of those pigs is say $300 to $350, alive, much less to if I killed them myself and they were growing because we were fattening them up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hance John, who is also a Vincentian entertainer, bemoaned the fact that the stolen animals \u201cwere [amongst] the very first batch of piglets\u201d born to the sow with which he started his pig farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He told ANN: \u201cthey were from my very first investment. That\u2019s what really started Westfield Farm before even the vegetables and what\u2019s not. The pig was the first thing that I got and I ain\u2019t even get a return on it as yet\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe farm was named after my father. So it would have been his legacy continued. I used to do it all the time but I never thought of branding it and stuff like that not until the volcanic eruption when I employed several evacuees as a means of creating some employment and trying to lift their spirits and give back so that they won\u2019t be bored in the shelters doing nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMost of them were farmers so I utilized their expertise and their skills to rebuild the farm while at the same time giving back the humanitarian efforts as well because they got paid and they got to relieve some of the pressure from being in the shelter and all the damages that were done to their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt really became a means of helping them out while establishing a business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Up to the time of publishing investigations were ongoing but no suspects were as yet in police custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by JP Schwmon #SituationUpdates Youth farmer and Cultural Ambassador Hance John has filed a criminal complaint after 3 pigs from his recently rebranded farming efforts were stolen. Sometime between 12 and 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday January 11 the animals were slaughtered on the Westfield farm which is located in Evesham. Their carcasses were dragged off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"\n