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BUTTE, Mont – A former Colorado man has been charged in Montana with felony cruelty to animals.
Phillip A. Brode was driving cross-country with 100 malnourished dogs crammed into a filthy school bus, authorities said.
Police arrested him on Sunday evening in in Rocker, Montana.
Butte police said the 60-year-old Brode was traveling from his former home in La Jara to Alaska.
The dogs were examined by veterinarians and are being housed in a Butte animal shelter or in temporary kennels set up in Butte.
Brode was jailed on a charge of felony cruelty to animals.
A judge set bail at $10,000.