MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA)— Greater than 40 folks have been arrested after deputies responded to reviews of an altercation and located an unlawful recreation fowl preventing ring, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Workplace introduced.
Deputies responded to the 14000 block of SW 192nd Avenue on Friday, Could 16, round 4:00 p.m. concerning a number of folks engaged in a bodily altercation.
MDSO mentioned deputies arrived on the scene and located people not solely preventing, but additionally participating in unlawful recreation fowl preventing.
A big gathering of individuals and a number of roosters roaming freely have been seen when deputies have been on the property.
The folks on the property started fleeing on foot and in automobiles, however deputies have been in a position to arrest one one who had rooster spurs, an indicator of cockfighting exercise, deputies mentioned.
After an investigation, deputies arrested 42 folks.
The costs they face embody attending the preventing or baiting of animals and resisting with out violence.
On the time of their arrests and impoundment, $39,147 was taken from the folks attending the combat.
A complete of 72 roosters have been situated.
Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz launched the next assertion:
“Such a cruelty and criminality has no place in our group. Animal preventing shouldn’t be solely inhumane, nevertheless it usually goes hand-in-hand with different severe crimes. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Workplace stays dedicated to defending each the folks and the animals of our group. We encourage anybody with data of comparable actions to come back ahead.”
