GUILTY PA - William, Pearl & Robert Herman for child endangerment, Ephrata, 2013

An Ephrata man was sentenced Thursday after he was found living with his 1-year-old grandson in a mobile home with 105 animals.

Robert Herman Sr., 57, plead guilty to endangering a child and animal cruelty. Herman told the judge he kept the animals at his mobile home along the 800 block of Main Streeet while he was making plans to buy a farm.

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Parents William Herman, 24, and Pearl Herman, 25, Ephrata, were placed on three years' probation for housing an infant boy in a filthy mobile home inhabited by more than 100 animals. Grandfather Robert Herman Sr. is already serving two years' probation.

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SARANAC LAKE — Village Police charged a Pennsylvania man with writing more than $185,000 worth of bad checks here and in his home state...

[William] Herman, 26, is charged with first-degree scheme to defraud and third-degree grand larceny, both felonies, and being a fugitive from justice...

In Ephrata, Pa., Ephrata Police Department officials confirmed for the Press-Republican that Herman was arrested in their town in May 2013 for cruelty to animals...

Their infant child was living in the mobile home with them among an “array of animals that included peeps, turtles, exotic birds, cats, dogs, ducks and pot-bellied pigs," Lancaster Online reported...

Lancaster County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Chris Riggs confirmed they have an outstanding arrest warrant for Will Herman.

The warrant, one of two, was issued for a parole violation on Dec. 7. The outstanding warrant is for charges in connection with the animal-cruelty and child-endangerment case, Riggs said.

“He also failed to appear for a hearing here on a domestic-relations arrest warrant, issued Oct. 27,” Riggs said.

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