9-year-old California girl wanted to save her goat from slaughter. Then came the search warrant

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The 15-page search warrant and affidavit was very specific about the target Shasta County sheriff’s officials were after. “The location is a single family residence in a rural residential area,” the warrant, signed at 6:33 p.m. on July 8 by Shasta County Superior Court Judge Monique McKee, read. “The property has a tan colored residence with a brown composite style roof.” The document was accompanied by ground-level and aerial photos of the property, along with a street address in Napa and the notation that the subject of the search warrant had been “stolen or embezzled.” ...