Initial call for welfare check results in search warrant execution and arrest on animal neglect, drug and other charges
Welfare check and search warrant leads to seizure of 10 dogs and one arrest ... The Allamakee County Sheriff’s Office conducted a welfare check at a residence located at 530 Hanover Hill Lane in rural Waukon Wednesday, March 26 and discovered 10 dogs in the residence with two of the dogs being deceased. The owner of the dogs, Nathaniel Coleman (photo above), was arrested on an outstanding arrest warrant and transported to the Winneshiek County Jail. A search warrant was executed at the residence resulting in the seizure of eight live dogs, which were then transported to the Northeast Iowa Humane Society in Decorah (as seen in the photos below), with marijuana and drug paraphernalia also being found during the search warrant execution. As a result, Coleman was also initially charged with animal neglect, inadequate animal care, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Additional charges have since been filed. Submitted photos.
An initial request for a welfare check at a residence located at 530 Hanover Hill Lane, Waukon in rural Allamakee County has resulted in the arrest of a Waukon man on multiple charges in both Allamakee and Winneshiek Counties, along with the discovery and seizure of 10 dogs, two of which were deceased.
According to a report issued by the Allamakee County Sheriff’s Office and further Allamakee County District Court documentation, Wednesday, March 26, the Allamakee County Sheriff’s Office was asked to conduct a welfare check on Susan K. Burrow, owner of that Hanover Hill Lane residence, after family members had not heard from her over the past several weeks. Further concerns were expressed about one of Burrow’s grandsons, 28-year-old Nathaniel Thomas Coleman, and how he was treating his grandmother that he was currently living with at that Hanover Hill Lane address. Coleman had previously been arrested on charges of assault stemming from a March 2020 incident in Waukon where Coleman had allegedly assaulted Burrow and another of her grandsons, some of the charges to which he has since pleaded guilty.
OUTSTANDING ARREST WARRANT
As part of the March 26 welfare check, court documents indicate it was determined that Coleman had an outstanding arrest warrant out of Winneshiek County for failure to serve jail time from a February 2024 sentencing order in conjunction with an arrest on drug charges in Winneshiek County from May 2019, with a hearing having been scheduled in Winneshiek County for Tuesday, April 1 in regard to that matter. As part of their welfare check, Allamakee County authorities found both Burrow and Coleman at the Hanover Hill Lane residence and took Coleman into custody on that arrest warrant, later transporting him to the Winneshiek County Jail.
Court documents further outline that Burrow was asked by Allamakee County Sheriff’s Deputies, and gave her permission, to have a look around her residence in response to concerns associated with the welfare check request. During the assessment of the residence, officers discovered a total of 10 dogs within the residence, two of which were deceased within recent days and reportedly hidden under blankets in the garage and in the kitchen of the home, along with unsanitary conditions throughout the home’s main level and garage area. Court documents further describe that it was also discovered there was no furniture on the main floor of the home and that what was reported to be Burrow’s bedroom on the main floor had only an old mattress on the floor, while Coleman lived in much better conditions in the home’s basement, with no signs of any dogs having lived in the basement area.
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