Bill Messick sent me a link that says that cockfights will go on in Caddo Parish, La. State district judge Charles Scott ruled Tuesday that state law permitting such battles trumps a local ordinance banning animal cruelty. On a whim, I just did a search of the news on cockfighting. Lo and behold, it's a crime wave!
Anonymous tip leads deputies to discovery of cockfight
Merced Sun-Star, CA - Feb 2, 2004
Nine men were cited Sunday after the Merced County Sheriff’s Department
busted up a cockfight north of Merced. Another man was ...
7 Killed in Brawl at Mexico Cockfight Den
Newsday - Feb 2, 2004
By Associated Press. TULANCINGO, Mexico -- A fight broke out between
two families at an illegal cockfighting den, and seven people ...
Cockfight brings tickets, destruction of 60 birds
Modesto Bee, CA - Feb 4, 2004
... injured birds. Most of the spectators ran, Huston said, but seven were
detained and cited for attending a cockfight. Animal Control ...
7 Killed in Brawl at Mexico Cockfight Den
Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - Feb 2, 2004
A fight broke out between two families at an illegal cockfighting
den, and seven people were killed, police said Monday. The two ...
Cockfight suspects facing maximum penalty of $50 fine
AL.com, AL - Jan 27, 2004
Two Mobile County sheriff's deputies dispatched Sunday to raid a reported cockfight
at a south Mobile County home saw dozens of people scatter and run away as ...
2 arrested at Irvington cockfight
AL.com, AL - Jan 26, 2004
Mobile County Sheriff's Department deputies raided an Irvington cockfight Sunday
afternoon, arresting two people and questioning about 40 more, sheriff's ...
Cockfight case resolved with $3700 penalty
MLive.com (subscription), MI - Jan 28, 2004
... Misdemeanor warrants remain pending in Allegan County for seven out-of-state
residents who police charged with attending a cockfight.
Second arrested for cockfight
Times-Journal, AL - Jan 29, 2004
A second man has been arrested after DeKalb County authorities raided
a cockfight near Collinsville on Jan. 17. Jimmy Van Johnson ...
Five people killed at cockfight in Colombia
Deepika, India - Jan 26, 2004
Bogota, Jan 27 (DPA) Contract killers shot dead five people and injured 13 in a shootout
at a cockfight in the southwestern Colombian city of Jumbo, police said ...
South Alabama's cockfighters
AL.com, AL - Feb 8, 2004
... Seaman was among 40 cockfight spectators who authorities found but did not charge
with any crime when they raided a cockfight in Irvington on Jan. 25. ...
Call for stronger cockfighting law - AL.com
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Officials raid cockfight in south DeKalb
Times-Journal, AL - Jan 20, 2004
... The building included bleachers and a concession stand. According to
Reed, this was the fourth cockfight on the property since Nov. ...
DeKalb Officers Raid Cockfight, Arrest One
WAFF, AL - Jan 20, 2004
... The raid was the second in three years at the site though Reed says it
was the fourth cockfight on the property since November Second.
Balinese riot after police raid cockfight
Jakarta Post, Indonesia - Jan 23, 2004
... Yangbatu in downtown Denpasar, Bali, barricaded the main road near their village
on Friday afternoon to vent their anger over a police raid on a cockfight held ...
Tracing cockfighting myths
AL.com, AL - Feb 8, 2004
... We can't say with 100 percent certainty that he did not judge a cockfight,
but we have never found evidence to say that he did," Blanchette said. ...
Get tough on cockfighting
AL.com, AL - Feb 2, 2004
Two major cockfight busts within a week at opposite ends of Alabama -- last Sunday
in Mobile County and days earlier near Hunstville -- were commendable ...
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