A huge, four-state dog-fighting ring
spanning the Southeast has been taken down with twelve arrests and the seizure
of 367 pit bulls. Raids last week on
homes in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi seized half a million dollars, along
with the dogs.
As reported in the Houston Chronicle U.S. Attorney George Beck said, “"I believe if Dante were alive today and
rewriting the 'Inferno' that the lowest places in hell would be reserved for
those who commit cruelty to our animals and to our children." He’s right.
Most of the defendants are charged with
conducting an illegal gambling business.
Many of the dogs were found chained, covered with fleas, malnourished
and with fighting injuries. They are
being kept for now as evidence, and cared for by the Humane Society before they
can be retrained and placed in new homes.
This is considered one of the largest
seizures of fighting dogs ever and as significant as a 2009 seizure of nearly
500 dogs in Missouri.
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