We now have more information on the child endangerment case against a Perry couple.
Perry Police Chief Eric Vaughn tells Raccoon Valley Radio officers went to Anthony Arbuckle’s home on August 27th to serve an arrest warrant for non payment of child support. When officers entered the home so that Arbuckle could retrieve some personal items they found the home in “complete disarray”. Vaughn says there were piles of trash, rotten food, animal feces and urine, and cockroaches throughout the home.
They then discovered there were two children sleeping in the filth on the floor of the living room and two more kids were found in other areas of the home, along with their mother – Lorene Arbuckle. Further investigation shows that most of the food available to the children was rotten and the kids were not supplied with adequate clothing.
Anthony was taken into custody on the child support warrant. Due to the condition of the home creating an “environment that posed a risk to the children’s physical, mental and/or emotional safety” the kids were taken into temporary custody of the Department of Human Services.
Warrants were later issued for both Anthony and Lorene Arbuckle, charging each with four aggravated misdemeanor counts of Child Endangerment. Both suspects were taken into custody on October 16th by the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office and later turned over to the Perry Police Department and brought to the Dallas County jail.
As we previously reported, this is not Anthony’s first run in with the law, he is a registered sex offender as the result of a 2001 conviction of third degree sexual abuse. He has since been charged several times for violating his sex offender registry, including living too close to a school and he has also been convicted of animal neglect. Both suspects have waived their preliminary hearings, been released on their own recognizance and have arraignments set for December 3rd.
Raccoon Valley Radio will continue to bring you more information as it becomes official.