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Martin County woman charged with animal cruelty
WARFIELD, Ky. — A Martin County woman was arrested for cruelty to animals, after a deputy found two dogs locked in cages without food or water.
A Martin County sheriff’s deputy was driving through Dempsey Housing at Warfield Tuesday night, when a resident flagged him down to report having heard two aggressive-sounding dogs over the riverbank. That person said they had heard the dogs for two days, but hadn’t checked on them because they sounded mean.
The deputy investigated and found the two dogs locked in side-by-side cages, without food or water and covered in animal waste.
Another resident of the apartments told the deputy to dogs belonged to 40-year-old Angela Marie Oney.
The deputy then questioned Oney about the dogs.She reportedly first said the larger of the two dogs belonged to her, then said she had given it to a friend. She at first said she couldn’t remember the friend’s name, but later gave the officer two different names.
Oney was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree cruelty to animals, a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail. She was later released on an unsecured $2,500 bond.
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Settlement between creditors could resolve competing claims against ARC
LOUISA, Ky. — Two financial companies involved in separate lawsuits against Addiction Recovery Care have reached a settlement that could resolve their competing claims to nearly $4.7 million in federal tax-refund proceeds currently being held in a court-ordered account.
Attorneys for Angelica Capital Trust and Clear Cove Opportunities Fund I notified a federal judge in New York on Sept. 18 that they had reached an agreement involving their two lawsuits against ARC and asked the court to take several steps that would bring both cases to an end.
The proposed resolution centers on $4.7 million that has been frozen in an ARC account at Truist Bank since January.
Under the agreement, the companies are asking the court to direct $3.6 million to Angelica and $1.1 million to Clear Cove. The two amounts account for the entire balance of the restrained funds.
The dispute traces back to ARC’s sale of anticipated Employee Retention Credit tax refunds from the IRS.
Clear Cove says it entered into an agreement with ARC in July 2025 to purchase the rights to ARC’s first-quarter 2021 ERC refund, which was expected to total about $3.32 million. Clear Cove paid ARC approximately $2.72 million for those rights and later obtained a secondary interest in ARC’s second-quarter refund. According to Clear Cove’s lawsuit, ARC received both refunds in December but failed to turn the money over.
A separate deal was reached with Angelica in November 2025. Court filings say Angelica paid ARC and its tax preparer a combined $5.46 million in connection with agreements covering two ERC receivables with a face value of about $6.91 million, plus potential interest. ARC subsequently received $8.15 million from the IRS, according to Angelica’s court filings.
Angelica sued in January after alleging ARC failed to turn over the tax-refund proceeds. U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels found that ARC was “on the brink of insolvency” and ordered the company to place $4.7 million in a segregated account, while leaving approximately $1 million available for operating expenses. The judge also noted that ARC acknowledged withholding and spending a significant portion of Angelica’s funds.
Clear Cove later sued ARC and added Angelica as a defendant, arguing that it already had rights to the same tax refunds. Clear Cove sought to prevent the frozen money from being distributed until its claim to the funds was resolved. A federal judge declined to issue that preliminary injunction but allowed the dispute over ownership of the money to continue.
The new agreement would effectively settle that dispute. Clear Cove would withdraw its claims against Angelica, while Angelica would withdraw its opposition to Clear Cove’s request for a judgment against ARC. The parties are asking the court to approve both judgments.
The agreement also calls for Clear Cove to obtain a judgment against ARC under Rule 54(b), while Angelica seeks confirmation of the judgment arising from its arbitration with ARC.
The settlement comes amid separate federal criminal proceedings against ARC founder Timmy G. Robinson Jr. Federal prosecutors allege Robinson caused ARC to sell the same Employee Retention Credits to multiple buyers. He was indicted in June on one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering.
The Sept. 18 filing is a request for court action rather than a final order. The parties are asking Judge Daniels to approve the judgments, dismiss Clear Cove’s claims against Angelica and authorize distribution of the restrained funds.
The latest filing does not spell out whether the settlement resolves any additional claims or financial obligations involving ARC beyond the judgments and distribution of the restrained funds.
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