CONWAY — Brutus spent a day behind bars and 88-year-old Martha Mazmanian is sleeping on a couch in her daughter's trailer.
The silver-haired widow was evicted earlier this month from her own trailer in Lamplighter's park along with son Johnny after a protracted legal war with park authorities — all over Johnny's new dog, Brutus, a frolicsome young German Shepherd.
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