{"id":561332,"date":"2026-03-26T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/561332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:53:08","slug":"man-charged-with-bestiality-following-alleged-vernon-equestrian-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/561332\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with bestiality following alleged Vernon equestrian incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Man charged with bestiality following alleged Vernon equestrian incident<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged with bestiality, two months after an alleged incident at a Vernon equestrian centre.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly involves the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=e5a3fe8b825aa4abf&amp;q=https:\/\/vernonmorningstar.com\/2026\/01\/26\/horses-allegedly-assaulted-at-vernon-facility\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiJm7zLrryTAxUxCjQIHZxmGVMQFnoECAIQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw1boquVtGrB6QvRcLir8DM3&amp;fexp=121574859,121574858,73152292,73152290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">alleged assault <\/a>of horses at Abigail Equestrian in the BX area, on Jan. 24. The professional training facility released surveillance images of a break-in suspect who was alleged to have also assaulted several horses.<\/p>\n<p>A man was arrested in relation to the incident on Jan. 26 and then released from custody pending further investigation, the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Justin Christian, born in 1991, was charged with one count of bestiality on Wednesday, March 25.<\/p>\n<p>Christian is scheduled to make his initial appearance in provincial court in Vernon on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man charged with bestiality following alleged Vernon equestrian incident Published 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 25, 2026 A man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-561332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}