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Case #12144 Rating: 4.0 out of 5
Dogs used for fighting
Dover, DE (US)Incident Date: Sunday, Jun 1, 2003
County: Kent
Disposition: Convicted
Defendant/Suspect: Willie A Brown
One such discovery occurred in June 2003, she said, while officers investigated a complaint about dogs running loose in a rural neighborhood three miles west of Dover.
Inside cages on the property, pit bulls lay in the sun without shade. No one was at home, Wyatt said, so officers peered into the garage and saw a scale for weighing dogs and a disassembled cage "with blood all over it.'' Officers obtained a search warrant, and found the house vacant, without furniture. A lone crate sat on the kitchen floor, holding a pit bull pup. Bloody gashes covered the dog's face. Its legs, ears and body bore gouges and puncture wounds. "It was the typical aftermath of a fight,'' Wyatt said.
A grand jury indicted the 21-year-old man renting the house, Willie A. Brown, on multiple dogfighting charges. Brown, who spent nearly two months in jail before posting bail, later pleaded guilty to two counts, court records show. A judge sentenced Brown to two years' probation in January 2005 and banned him from having any contact with animals for 15 years. Brown, who was discharged from probation after only a year, could not be reached. References« DE State Animal Cruelty Map
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