Officers serving a search warrant just after
“”This was a substantial bust,”” said Chief
An arrest two years ago at the same location in the working-class
Thirty-one spectators at the house during Saturday’s bust were cited with appearance tickets and released. Two people who lived at the residence were each charged with two felony counts of animal fighting.
Police also removed equipment Saturday designed to prepare the birds for fights: a fighting ring, scales and spectator seating, officials said.
Officers from the Third and Fourth Precinct Crime Section, Emergency Services, with the SPCA’s aid, participated in the operation. Gross said cockfighting is not as common as it was years ago, but still occurs too often.
In
Cockfighting is still legal in some Central American and
Medero and Lopez could not immediately be reached by phone.