Sheriff Joe Arpaio is announcing that detectives from his Animal Crimes Unit have arrested James Trent Hauser, 47, a resident of Mesa, Arizona, on charges related to bestiality.
On the evening of May 4, 2016, Hauser brought his dog, a boxer mix, to the Holiday Inn Express at 1520 W. Baseline Road in Tempe. Hauser had set this up to meet a woman whom he had met on a Craigslist messaging service, in order for him and his dog to engage in sex acts with the woman. The “woman” he was communicating with was, in fact, a male detective with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
During the progression of computer messaging over several days, Hauser asked the “woman” at one point if she was a cop. The detective answered, “Yeah I am Sheriff Joe…LOL”. Hauser then proceeded to set a time to meet and announced that he would give the dog a bath. When Hauser, with his dog in tow, arrived at the hotel and made contact with a Sheriff’s Office female detective, posing as the awaited sex partner, he was arrested.
Sheriff Arpaio has written letters in the past to Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craig’s List, asking him to consider better monitoring of the site to prevent this kind of solicitation. Just after detectives arrested James Darland for trying to arrange sex with various farm animals in October, detectives received information there was a warning to the “zoosexual community” interested in bestiality, to stay away from Arizona because Sheriff Joe Arpaio would conduct undercover sting operations.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says, “Hauser must have not got the warning and if he did, it didn’t matter to him. This is my tenth bestiality case, warning or not I will continue to crack down on animal abuse and bestiality.
Hauser was booked into the 4th Avenue Jail on one count of Conspiracy Bestial-Sexual Contact with an Animal and one count of Facilitating Bestial-Cause Sex