HANSON, MA — A Massachusetts man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison Wednesday for his role in a dogfighting operation, marking the first federal dogfighting conviction…
MINEOLA, NY – A Hempstead man has been indicted on drug trafficking, weapons possession, and animal fighting charges after authorities seized fentanyl-laced pills, a loaded handgun, and seven dogs allegedly…
DALLAS, Ga. — A Georgia man was sentenced to 475 years in prison after authorities rescued more than 100 malnourished pit bulls from a dogfighting operation at his home, officials…
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Freeport man was sentenced Wednesday to six months in jail and five years’ probation for breeding and selling pit bulls for use in dogfighting, Nassau County…
BALTIMORE, Md. — Frederick Douglass Moorefield, Jr., 63, of Arnold, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to engage in dogfighting and interstate travel in aid of racketeering, according…
TRENTON, NJ – In a significant crackdown on animal cruelty, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, alongside the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) and the New Jersey State Police, announced the…
A Louisiana man was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to sponsor, exhibit, possess and transport animals in an interstate animal fighting venture,…
MANHATTAN, NY – Jose Rivera, a 59-year-old resident of Washington Heights, has been sentenced to 4.5 years in state prison for his involvement in a dogfighting ring and possession of…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Woodbridge man pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in dogfighting, and a Camp Springs, Maryland, man pleaded guilty today to advertising a dogfight on the internet. …