Cockfighting Ring Busted Near L.A.

Authorities inward the Antelope Valley seized 228 alleged cockfighting roosters while serving a seek stock warrant inward the Antelope Valley, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday. In addition to the roosters, 500 to 600 pounds of hemp — worth an estimated $500,000 on the street — and a .22-caliber go were seized. type A manful suspect was arrested and booked at the Palmdale sheriff’s station, though authorities did not say what he was charged with.

“Cockfighting and illegal trafficking of drugs ladder mitt inwards hand,” scan a statement from Duke Wayne Pacelle, chairman of the animal-rights grouping Animal Wellness Action. “The northern, remote parts of Los Angeles County have got long been a hotspot for illegal cockfighting operations, and here we control this bare evidence of this unionised outlaw activity again.  We are thankful to law enforcement and other tonality players for shutting pull down this operation.”

California’s anti-cockfighting law provides either for misdemeanor felony penalties. It is also a federal criminal offence to operate in a wide run of cockfighting activities, including ownership of animals for fighting.  Los Angeles County has an ordinance banning buck private ownership of large numbers of roosters, as perform Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties.

Coming Home to Roost

Last week, authorities inwards Cherokee County, Texas raided a cockfighting ring, citing 50 people and seizing 97 roosters. In March 2022, 32 people were cited and 125 roosters euthanized after a bust on a cockfighting in Dorchester County, South Carolina. In Feb 2002, Texas authorities seized more than 100 chickens in an alleged Dallas-area cockfighting operation, turn them over to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. And in April 2021, Dallas authorities seized nearly 300 birds from a Grand Prairie, Texas, cockfighting operation.

Congress passed a practice of law 20 years agone that made possessing and shipping birds for cockfights illegal. Five years later, it became a federal felony. Though cockfighting is illegal inward all 50 US states, it is culturally recognised and legal in often of South America. In the Philippines, it is considered the subject sport, and “the World Slasher Cup” is a popular yearly televised event.