{"id":337123,"date":"2026-09-03T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337123\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:14:12","slug":"ny-state-police-stop-driver-taking-horses-to-slaughter-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337123\/","title":{"rendered":"NY State Police stop driver taking horses to slaughter in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DEKALB, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Horses that were being taken to slaughter in Canada have been rescued in St. Lawrence County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New York State Police began an investigation last week after a tip about a Pennsylvania company transporting horses through New York to Quebec to be slaughtered for human consumption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wednesday morning, police pulled over a truck and trailer in Dekalb and discovered multiple horses they said were tagged for transport to Canada for slaughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver, Robert Seitz of Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with violating state agriculture law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All the horses were rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEKALB, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Horses that were being taken to slaughter in Canada have been rescued in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10585,11634,9,11,10,49,51,50,119561,108067,1631],"class_list":["post-337123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-canada","tag-horses","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-rescued","tag-slaughter","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}