Stolen-Horse

This all took place in Zephyrhills, N.E. of Tampa, Florida. July 20, 2000. but I'm going back a few years so you will know what has happened. I'm trying to locate my best friend/buddy, Rontue. I had gotten Rontue in the fall of 1990, when he was 9 months old. This was about 5 months after the severe brain injury I had received on June 20,1990, I had been hit by an 18 wheeler as I was walking across a parking lot of a N.J. truck stop.I'm now 52 yrs old & still going.
   Rontue & I had a blast growing up together, at that time, I had NO short term memory, had seizures, & some of my long term memory still hadn't returned yet. He learned to fetch things for me, bow, shakes hands, give me kisses, & his famous trick, was unbuttoning my blouse. Then snicking like crazy. He stayed a stallion til he was about 5 yrs old. Against my better judgement & against the vet's advice of leaving him a stallion, I listened to my friends & son,& had him gelded.He is a beautiful dun/buckskin with one white sock on his right rear foot.He has the black stripe down his back with a light shadow on his shoulders.He also has that roan style face. I think I spelled that right.
   In 1998, my now ex-boyfriend had me move out of my home & had me rent to his friends.
   In Sept. 1999, he left with ALL the money, leaving me high & dry, so that I would have to take him back to get out of the hole & save my property. Fooled him, I didn't take him back, NO WAY, he had gotten into drugs.
   In the spring of 2000, a neighbor who does fairs, said if I go thru the whole circuit, I would get a bonus in the fall. Which would have gotten the back taxes plus the new taxes caught up.I made arrangements for the care of Rontue & my dog, Homer, & left.
   On June 1,2000, the renters stopped paying rent. On the morning of June 6, I woke up at 3 a.m., screaming Homers name, & crying, shaking. The fear I was feeling is the fear, Homer goes thru, everytime he just sees a gun. He knows what they do. I waited til 7 a.m. & called the lady who had Homer, which is next door to where my home & the renters are. She said that Homer was fine, stop crying, she really thought I had lost it, I guess. Til I finely got her to go out & try to find him. He was GONE. No one has seen him since the night before the dream.
    In July, I came down & tried to find Homer, & also find a place to put Rontue. But no one could get him for at least 2 weeks. I must have stirred up an hornets nest. My son says that the renter called him & told him, that "if I thought I was hurting over losing Homer, wait until he got done with me this time", Before I got back up north, Rontue was gone.
    By the time I got back in Nov. I was behind in my van paynments, lost it, behind in my mortage payments, still am, I'm just barely keeping it out of foreclosure. I still haven't gotten the 2 years of back taxes paid yet. So if I don't get them paid this year, I lose the place anyway, but I'm not going to stop trying. This is ALL I have left. By the time I got the renters out in Dec. 2000, they had trashed my home so BAD, that the county came & condemed it, I have now gotten it UNcondemed, moved back in myself in May. The renters stole everything out of the shed on the back of the property, where I had stored everything I owned.
. They were also into fighting roosters, & dogs, & I have also learned that they were selling drugs. The man is stealing critters & selling them, mostly roosters & goats. But until I find Rontue, the sheriff can't do anything, the sheriff knows he's doing these things, just have no proof. I have also learned that the man, loves to shoot dogs or throw them into the pit bull pens to watch them die. I have learned the above thru ex-friends of the man, but they are so afraid of him they will not go to the sheriff.
    Rontue has NEVER had a bit in his mouth, you didn't even need reins, but if I didn't tell him to let you ride, you DID NOT ride. That scares me, as I don't know what they might do to him, to try & get him to let them ride him. He's hardheaded like me.
    Anyway, I trying to get this message out there, that my Rontue is missing. Homer I'm afraid is dead, but I will also keep looking for him, just in case.
     ANY HELP you can give me, I will be indebted to you. If there is anything I can do for you or anyone else that has or is going thru something like this, let me know. PLEASE HELP ! ! ! I'm losing everything.
                                                                            UPATE: $1000.oo REWARD... It's possible he's in Hernando, County Florida
                                                                               Around Brooksville, Floral City, Ridge Manor area
         Charlene Gibson                                           e-mail: [email protected]
         33110 Brisk Dr.                               Home number :1-813-778-6042 or 1-813-715-0131
         Zephyrhills, Florida 33543        Pasco County sheriff's number: 1-800-854-2861
                                               case number : 0052014   ASK for Lt. Roger Mills Ag. divison

                  Thank You & God Bless you ALL, for any type of help, you can give!