A Clarkston man was arrested in connection with an incident in May where three pigs were killed in the Clarkston FFA barn in the 1400 block of 16th Avenue.
According to a news release from the Asotin county Sheriff’s Office, 27-year-old Lyden Blackburn was arrested and faces allegations of first-degree animal cruelty, malicious killing of livestock belonging to another, second-degree theft of livestock, and first-degree burglary.
Sheriff’s office investigators had security footage of the incident they had been studying since it happened May 16.
In the video, the man appeared to be carrying a .22 caliber rifle and shot and killed a sow. Investigators say he attempted to leave with the dead pig, but it was too heavy.
The man then shot and killed two piglets and took them with him.
