VAN WERT COUNTY — It has been two days since 40,000 mink were released in Van Wert County and Northwest Ohio has gone mink-crazy. Social media is flooded with mink stories, mink memes and sightings of mink on Hoaglin Road, which is where Lion Mink Farm is located. The farm is seven miles north of Van Wert and roughly five miles north of Van Wert Walmart.
County Sheriff Tom Riggenbach’s office responded to the farm at 6:27 a.m. on Tuesday morning to investigate a break-in and vandalism to one of the buildings. Within a few hours, Ohio State Highway Patrol Post 81 in Van Wert had released warnings about road hazards on US-127, which is less than a mile away from the farm.
Times Bulletin reporter Sam Shriver was at the farm shortly afterward. Several armed locals were shooting the animals, and Shriver took pictures of the animals, noting graffiti on one of the buildings. The graffiti was too small to read from the road, but suspecting it was a deliberate act the Times Bulletin contacted Animal Liberation Front (ALF), an animal-rights group that is not above breaking the law to make a point. Many would call them domestic terrorists.
ALF responded to the Times Bulletin, saying they were “very pleased” about the incident, but had yet to receive confirmation that the lawbreaker was a member of their group or someone sympathetic to their goals. Since then WLIO-TV from Lima has been able to access the graffiti, which reads: “ALF We’ll be back” — which confirms the link between the...
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