MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- The Humane Society of the United States offers $2,500 for information leading to the capture and arrest of a couple convicted of animal cruelty.  Tammy and William Hanson failed last week to appear in Baxter County District Court for sentencing on 20 misdemeanor convictions of animal cruelty.

  Judge Van Gearhart issued a warrant for their arrest and ordered the couple be held without bond pending sentencing.        The couple operated the facility Every Dog Needs a Home near Gamaliel, northeast of Mountain Home. 

  The Baxter County Sheriff's Department searched the Hansons’ property in October and found 477 dogs on two acres.  Several dogs were lying in their own feces and urine in small cages.  Some dogs were injured while others were dead.

  Gearhart found the two guilty of 20 counts of cruelty to animals in December.  The Hansons’ waived their right to a trial by jury.

   Tammy Hanson also faces three counts of tampering with evidence and three counts of theft of property in Baxter County, stemming from accusations that she took dogs that were in the custody of the Baxter County Sheriff's Department. 

  Tammy Hanson also faces three stealing charges in Lawrence County, Mo., where she’s accused of stealing dogs that the Baxter County Sheriff’s Department had returned to a woman there.  The dogs were at Every Dog Needs a Home during the search in October.  The woman had given the dogs to the Hansons for safe care.