Dog-fighting Violet, LA (US) Incident Date: Sunday, Apr 10, 2005 County: Saint Bernard Local Map: available Disposition: Alleged Alleged: » Clarence Richard » 16 year old boy

Case ID: 4385 Classification: Fighting Animal: dog (pit-bull) View more cases in LA (US) Login to Watch this Case

Two Violet residents were booked with cruelty to animals on the evening of April 10 after a pair of dogfighting incidents, St. Bernard Parish authorities said.

Clarence Richard, 20, 4 Victorian Court, and a 16-year-old boy, whose name wasn't released because he is a minor, were both booked with two counts of animal cruelty. Richard, who denied fighting dogs, was later released on $350 bond.

The minor was taken to the parish juvenile detention center.

Dogfighting arrests are rare, primarily because authorities seldom have witnesses to the event.

"Usually you hear about it afterward," said Col. Richard Baumy of the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office. Dogfights are often held for purposes of gambling, he said.

Authorities first got involved with the pair after receiving a complaint from a man who said a dog owned by a relative of Richard's attacked another dog in the 2100 block of Colonial Boulevard in Violet on Sunday evening, authorities said, citing an incident report.

Both suspects were allegedly watching and laughing, and Richard eventually separated the dogs, witnesses told deputies, according to the sheriff's report.

While investigating that incident, two St. Bernard Parish men told deputies they had seen Richard and the juvenile with four other males fighting dogs in the Mississippi River batture earlier, at about 5 p.m., according to a sheriff's incident report. One witness said he saw dogs fighting, saw men separate the dogs and then let the dogs attack again, the sheriff's report said.

The four other males weren't caught, Baumy said.

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The Times-Picayune - April 13, 2005

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