Cockfighting - over 30 birds
Bernalillo, NM (US)

Incident Date: Monday, Apr 19, 2004
County: Bernalillo

Disposition: Alleged

Abuser names unreleased

A cockfighting ring was busted in Bernalillo County over the weekend and now over twenty men have either been cited or are being deported as a result. Deputies arrived at a home on the 2300 block of Perry Road in southwest Albuquerque to find the men gathered around a dead rooster.  Thirty other roosters were also found, along with weapons used in cockfighting.

While the state has no law against cock-fighting, it is illegal in all New Mexico counties except Lea and Cibola.

Eleven of the men were in the county illegally and have been deported. The other ten have been cited with animal cruelty.

"We do receive occasional reports but it's unusual to find a location where they're having cockfights in broad daylight and be able to cite people. (Usually) they try to do this in secret," says Bernalillo County Sheriff spokesperson Michelle Arviso-Devlin.

Five of the roosters we so badly injured they had to be euthanized. Animal control has possession of the remaining birds.

References

• KRQE

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