{"id":256901,"date":"2026-05-03T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256901\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:47:10","slug":"florida-woman-runs-over-11-baby-ducklings-multiple-times-then-gives-heartless-reason-for-killing-them-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256901\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman runs over 11 baby ducklings &#8216;multiple times&#8217; then gives heartless reason for killing them: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heartless Florida woman killed 11 baby ducks by driving her car over the helpless brood \u201cmultiple times\u201d because she was ticked off that they messed up her yard, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>Beverly Sasberry, 64, was hit with 11 counts of felony animal cruelty for the shocking April 25 incident outside her home in Jacksonville, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JacksonvilleSheriffsOffice\/posts\/64-year-old-beverly-sasberry-is-facing-11-felony-charges-after-she-intentionally\/1396163805878556\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sheriff\u2019s office said on Facebook<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The department said a pair of passersby saw Sasberry behind the wheel of her red Honda Accord as she mowed down the ducklings and turned \u201cher vehicle around multiple times to hit them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.89941406;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39269719\" width=\"531\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/64-year-old-beverly-sasberry-126921184.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Beverly Sasberry.\" class=\"wp-image-39269719\"  \/>Beverly Sasberry, 64, is charged with 11 counts of animal cruelty for running over a brood of ducklings. Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/2026\/05\/03\/woman-arrested-after-running-over-11-ducklings-because-they-made-mess-her-yard-police-say\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=snd&amp;utm_content=wfie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to WFIE-TV News<\/a>, the mother duck and two ducklings dodged the car and survived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe couple confronted the woman a few days later, and she told them she intentionally killed the ducks because she was upset they made a mess in her yard,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>They reported the incident to authorities and provided video of the incident. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the sheriff\u2019s deputies spotted the Honda and pulled Sasberry over and arrested her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not take animal cruelty cases lightly,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39269720\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/126921925.jpg\" alt=\"A duckling standing in green grass while other ducklings are resting in the foreground.\" class=\"wp-image-39269720\"  \/>Jacksonville authorities said Beverly Sasberry ran over 11 ducklings \u201cmultiple times\u201d on April 25. ihorhvozdetskiy \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The cruel incident comes just over three months after shocking surveillance video footage captured youngsters <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/us-news\/police-offer-5000-reward-to-find-florida-kid-seen-stomping-killing-duck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stomping and killing a duck<\/a> in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>The clip, which came from a neighbor\u2019s Ring camera, was so disturbing that cops pulled it from the police department\u2019s online announcement of a $5,000 reward for information on the young culprit.<\/p>\n<p>In another gruesome animal cruelty case, Craig Vogt, 61, was arrested by the Pasco County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Florida in September for allegedly<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/30\/us-news\/florida-man-arrested-for-allegedly-killing-cooking-and-eating-pet-peacocks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> killing, cooking and eating two<\/a> of his pet peacocks.<\/p>\n<p>According to police records, Vogt was angry that his neighbor kept feeding the birds so he killed them in a twisted act of revenge \u2014 and put a letter in the neighbor\u2019s mailbox to tell him what he had done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartless Florida woman killed 11 baby ducks by driving her car over the helpless brood \u201cmultiple times\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10238,1684,4864,28,30,29,132,4278],"class_list":["post-256901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-animal-abuse","tag-animals","tag-arrests","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-police","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}