Three people accused of hitting police horses were rounded up by mounted patrol officers Saturday night in Ybor City.
Michael Moore Bolanis, 36, Detrick Adelious Epps, 33, and Thomas Schuster, 50, each were charged with striking a police animal, Tampa police said.
Schuster, a resident of Michigan, was arrested on Seventh Avenue about 1 a.m. after he struck a police horse on the left hind quarter as it passed him on the street, a report states. Police say Schuster wanted to spook the horse.
He was being held on $500 bail tonight at Orient Road Jail.
Bolanis, of Washington, D.C., also was charged with disorderly conduct. He was released from Orient Road Jail today after posting $500 bail.
Epps of Virginia was additionally charged with opposing a police officer with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer and criminal mischief. He was released from Orient Road Jail today after posting $4,750 bail.
On Friday, Trey Mathew Palmer, 19, of Tampa, was arrested in Ybor on charges of striking a police animal. Police say Palmer cursed at a police horse then punched it after an officer asked him to get out of the middle of the street.
Palmer was released from Orient Road Jail on Saturday after posting $500 bail.
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