Redland cockfighting bust lands 42 people in cuffs, sheriff says

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Cordero-Stutz: ‘No spot successful our community’

Generic representation of a rooster (Pixabay)

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade deputies accidental a telephone astir an “altercation” successful the agrarian Redland country led them to observe not lone radical warring ― but roosters, too.

That led to the arrests of much than 3 twelve radical and the seizure of adjacent much birds, they announced Saturday.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to 14287 SW 192nd Ave. conscionable aft 4 p.m. Friday and recovered that the radical warring each different were determination to ticker roosters fight.

Cops saw a “large gathering of radical and aggregate roosters roaming freely connected the property” and radical began moving distant and getting into their cars, an MDSO quality merchandise states.

Deputies said they recovered a idiosyncratic with rooster spurs, “a wide indicator of cockfighting enactment astatine the scene.”

In total, deputies arrested 42 radical connected assorted charges, including attending the warring oregon baiting of animals and resisting without violence.

"This benignant of cruelty and amerciable enactment has nary spot successful our community. Animal warring is not lone inhumane, but it often goes hand-in-hand with different superior crimes," Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said successful the quality release. “The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office remains committed to protecting some the radical and the animals of our community. We promote anyone with cognition of akin activities to travel forward.”

Authorities person not yet identified immoderate of the arrestees arsenic of Saturday afternoon; an MDSO spokesperson said the bureau expects to merchandise further details connected Monday.

Besides the people, deputies accidental they netted 72 roosters and seized $39,147 from those involved.