The Queen Anne’s County Animal Abuse Registry is a listing of any individual who has been convicted of Animal Abuse in a Queen Anne’s County, Maryland Court. This Registry is maintained by the Queen Anne’s County State’s Attorney as ordered by Queen Anne’s County Ordinance 24-17.
- Troy Michael Sellman, 126 Thompson Avenue, Queenstown, MD. Height 6-04; Weight 205; 37 years of age. Sellman entered a guilty plea in the Queen Anne’s County District Court on November 24, 2024, to failing to provide a Cane Corso Dog with proper shelter, which is a crime under 10-604 of the Criminal Law Article of The Annotated Code of Maryland – Abuse or neglect of animal, punishable by up to 90 days incarceration and/or a $1,000 fine.
In August of 2024 Queen Anne’s County Animal Control received an anonymous call reporting a large black dog at Sellman’s residence that had been tied outside for hours in the extreme heat and appeared to be in distress. Officers arrived at the Queenstown, MD residence and found a Cane Corso, which is an Italian breed of a Mastiff, in the back yard tethered with a choker style collar in direct sunlight, with no shelter or water. The dog was lying on the ground, heavily panting and in critical condition. Officers noted the outside air temperature to be 96 degrees and the dog’s external temperature to be 121 degrees. Officers loaded the dog into an Animal Control vehicle and transported the animal to a nearby animal services clinic, approximately 3 minutes from Sellman’s residence. When Officers arrived at the clinic, they found the dog showed no signs of life and was pronounced deceased. Sellman was sentenced to jail, but his sentence was suspended in favor of supervised probation due to the fact he was already incarcerated on an unrelated charge. As a condition of his probation, Sellman was ordered not to own or possess any animals and to submit to a mental health evaluation.
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