Bail lowered in animal hoarding case | Local News

Bail was reduced for a Bedford couple currently jailed on $1 million bail each for allegedly torturing and failing to provide care for nearly 100 animals — mostly dogs — who were kept in cages stacked floor to ceiling on their Business Route 220 home.

Renee Piper, 62, and Nyal Barton Piper, 81, will each have to post $250,000 straight bail to gain release from the Bedford County Correctional Facility, where they have been housed since their arraignment on March 1, when bail was set by District Magistrate Kevin Diehl. The Pipers each waived their right to a preliminary hearing and the charges are bound over to County Court.