A Central Islip woman who pleaded guilty in May to adopting dogs from local animal shelters – including the Town of North Hempstead – and selling them on Craigslist was sentenced on Tuesday to two years’ probation, prosecutors said.
Lisette Tobon, 23, purchased an eight-year-old Pekinese from North Hempstead’s animal shelter in Port Washington in November 2013 and was arrested in March in connection with a scheme to sell the dog on the online classified ad site, prosecutors said.
Tobon pleaded guilty to one second-degree count of offering a false instrument after prosecutors said she gave the shelter a fake telephone number and address after entering an agreement with the town to not give away, sell or dispose of the dog without the shelter’s consent.
Prosecutors said Tobon was denied by the Town of Babylon’s Municipal Shelter in February after attempting to adopt another animal using the same fake address and telephone number, prosecutors said.
