{"id":422837,"date":"2026-10-09T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422837\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:30:07","slug":"woman-accused-of-burying-cats-alive-at-hobe-sound-mobile-home-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422837\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of burying cats alive at Hobe Sound Mobile Home Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsofl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> units along with MCSO Animal Services are currently investigating an animal cruelty case at Hobe Sound Mobile Home Park, according to the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>MCSO says that they are investigating a \u201cdisturbing animal cruelty case\u201d at Hobe Sound Mobile Home Park located on SE Federal Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Portions of the property are currently being dug up after the homeowner \u2014 Alba Chavez, 37 \u2014 said she buried at least four of her cats alive in the yard because she believed they were demons.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/desantis-withdraws-execution-warrant-for-74-year-old-death-row-inmate-set-to-die-oct-13-florida-news-florida-death-row-news-death-warrant-stopped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeSantis withdraws execution warrant for 74-year-old death row inmate set to die Oct. 13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of the cats were saved by deputies, but the other two were found deceased. Chavez is currently in custody facing multiple counts of aggravated animal cruelty, according to MCSO.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office units along with MCSO Animal Services are currently investigating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-422837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422837","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=422837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}