~ PVN staff report
LURAY, June 9 — On Friday, a Stanley man was convicted on three counts of animal cruelty and 16 counts of inadequate care for agricultural animals. However, a judge dismissed the vast majority of the 116 charges against him.
Benjamin Ramos, 55, was arrested on May 25, 2022, for 116 charges stemming from incidents on March 24, 2022. The charges were split between 58 Class 1 misdemeanors for cruelty to animals and 58 Class 4 misdemeanors for inadequate care of agricultural animals.
Specifically, the charges accused Ramos of neglect by failing to feed and provide appropriate care to a variety of farm animals, including horses, donkeys, chickens, ducks, cows, sheep, puppies, dogs, goats, pigs and pigeons.
Ramos was sentenced to 10 days in jail and a year of unsupervised probation for three counts, with both suspended.
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is this the owner of Camino Real?
Yes. He also owns or co-owns a second restaurant with his brother in Winchester I think.
That makes me so mad!! I don’t understand how all these charges get dropped against a man that is obviously I’d treating his animals cruel and teaching children to do horrible things he he gets a slap on the wrist!!!😡😡 This County is not hard on animal abusers and it’s the worst to see animals who love and trust you get treated badly and not feed because y’all don’t do anything to them!!! How about trying to step up for them!! See how that works!! We have dogs standing on top of dog houses all over the county!!