Horse lease leads to charges
By BOB GIBBINS
Press Staff Writer
A $5,000 bond was set Tuesday afternoon for a Cherokee County man charged with failing to return a horse he had leased.
Michael Dewayne Ryals, 22, is accused of embezzlement after he allegedly failed to return a horse he leased from Mikaela Rodriguez.
Rodriguez told sheriffs investigators she had leased a horse named Sonny Deelight to Ryals. Rodriguez said when Ryals asked about purchasing the horse outright, she told him it would cost $3,000, but she said she wasnt interested in selling the horse because she still rode it.
Rodriguez also said Ryals claimed he knew of other people who wanted to buy the horse. He allegedly sold the horse at a later time. The animal was released between April and September.
Assistant District Attorney Josh King is prosecuting the case. He also has an application to accelerate a deferred three-year judgment pending in an unauthorized use of a vehicle charge.
Court records indicate warrants were recalled Tuesday on other older cases involving Ryals.
He was ordered to make $50 monthly payments on those cases, which involve the unauthorized use of a vehicle, some traffic tickets and a pair of protective orders.
Look they have a right to be upset. I have spent hours trying to get them help. I have talked to new paper,state office and a whole lot of other people. I even had Delaware county talking to Cherokee and the sheriff wouldn't move. I am not trashing them just know sometimes it takes a whole of shaking to get wheels moving and now they have. I been down that road when my grandson was killed. The lady had warren's but money talks and no one would pick her up. A yr later another state, MO this time, calls by grandparents to the governor office in both state and we finally got her. Plus calls to sheriff office to the point they probably wanted to hide. I know she wasn't drinking that night just talking on hand handle cell. But a warrens a warren and they should be serviced. And she only got 9 months for my grandson life. And for the people that say I should say, he dead in a car wreck, you can forget it, to me he was killed by someone with 35 arrest from drinking and driving and other things She was talking on the phone and NOT paying attention. And it could happen to anyone yes but come on 35 arrest ? When it stop.
