Photo courtesy Bedford County Sheriff's Department

Bedford County officials found this goat tied up in the trunk of a car they stopped in June. The animal "was panting and foaming at the mouth," Deputy Allison Key testified before a judge on Friday.

BEDFORD -- A Washington, D.C., woman who stuffed a roped goat into the trunk of her Mercedes won't have to spend time in jail, but she will have to pay a $100 fine, a judge ruled Friday.

Fiona Enderby, 32, was found guilty of animal cruelty, a misdemeanor, in Bedford County General District Court.

The charge stems from a June incident in which Bedford County deputies stopped Enderby's car at a checkpoint and found a hogtied goat in the trunk.

Friday, Judge Harold Black fined Enderby $500 but suspended all but $100 of the fine. He also sentenced her to 10 days in jail but suspended all the jail time on the condition that she behave.

After a deputy fingerprinted her, Enderby was escorted from the courthouse. She declined to speak to reporters.

During Enderby's brief time in front of the judge, Deputy Allison Key testified that she stopped Enderby's 2002 Mercedes sedan on June 11 at a traffic checkpoint near the Campbell County line. In the car with Enderby were four friends from Lynchburg.

"I could hear some noise coming from the rear of the vehicle," Key said. When she asked about the noise, Key said, she was told there was a goat in the trunk.

When the trunk was opened, Key said, she saw the live goat lying inside, its feet tied up.

"It was panting and foaming at the mouth," Key told Black. "It was obviously distressed."

The temperature in the trunk -- tested about 10 minutes after the trunk was opened -- was 94 degrees.

Before Black convicted her, Enderby mumbled something to the judge that was inaudible to those in the courtroom. She declined to elaborate outside the courtroom, but she told The Roanoke Times in June that the goat had been purchased "like five minutes before" the traffic stop. Maj. Ricky Gardner of the sheriff's office said Enderby told deputies she intended to give the goat to her friends.

The goat is now living on a farm in Bedford County.