Cops: Owner had to ‘peel' man charged with bestiality off horse

By Alexis Stevens

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

After he was told to quit molesting a horse, a 37-year-old Covington man jumped on a second and then a third animal, police said Thursday.

Byron Christopher Jordan, who was wearing only pajama bottoms, was arrested Tuesday and charged with bestiality after Covington police arrived at the home on Lunsford Circle.

At about 9 a.m. Tuesday a neighbor witnessed Jordan having sex with a horse and alerted her husband to what she saw, Lt. Wendell Wagstaff told the AJC.

The neighbors were afraid to call 911 at first because they thought dispatchers might think it was a joke, Wagstaff said.

"When you see something like that, you do a double-take," Wagstaff said.

The neighbors also  alerted the owner of the horses, who told Jordan to get off one of his animals, Wagstaff said.

"He got off that horse but he got on another one," Wagstaff said.

Then Jordan apparently did it again, Wagstaff said. The owner told Jordan to get off horse No. 2, and Jordan did but then got on a third horse, police said.

"He literally had to go down and peel him off the [third] horse," Wagstaff said of the horses' owner, who police have not named.

Jordan was charged with bestiality, a felony in Georgia, and with giving an officer a false name. He was released on bond from the Newton County jail late Wednesday, according to jail records. If convicted on bestiality charges Jordan could serve up to five years in prison.