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Monday, January 05, 2009
State Police Bust Valencia County Cockfighting Operation
Associated Press
BELEN — State Police are searching for the owner of a building in Valencia County they say housed up to 100 roosters used in cockfighting.
State police say a neighbor's tip led them to the building in Highland Meadows, where they uncovered a scene they described as "horrible."
Senior patrolman Robert Carrejo says officers uncovered injured birds that were maimed and barely breathing. Four roosters had to be euthanized.
Heather Ferguson of the attorney general's Animal Task Force says roosters were found with blades strapped to their heels and then put into a pit so they could slash each other.
New Mexico outlawed cockfighting in 2007.
Participants in the cockfight could face extreme animal cruelty, cockfighting and gambling charges.
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