{"id":523822,"date":"2010-04-11T23:58:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fcf6f59970c"},"modified":"2010-04-11T23:58:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:58:42","slug":"authorities-break-up-cockfighting-ring-in-riverside-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523822","title":{"rendered":"Authorities break up cockfighting ring in Riverside County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-seven roosters were euthanized Sunday morning after Riverside County authorities broke up a cockfighting ring near the Salton Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on a tip, a dozen Riverside County sheriff\u2019s deputies and animal control officers busted the open-air cockfight shortly after 10 a.m. in the 100000 block of Avenue 72, known as the North Shore area, said John Welsh of the Riverside County Department of Animal Services. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody bolted and nobody took ownership of the birds or the property,\u201d Welsh said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies in four-wheel-drive vehicles chased spectators out into the desert, Welsh said. Thirty-two participants were arrested for misdemeanor animal cruelty, according to a sheriff\u2019s press release.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 40 roosters found on the premises, three had already been killed during the event, Welsh said. The other 37 were given lethal injections by animal control officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoosters raised to be cock fighters, you can\u2019t put them up for adoption,\u201d Welsh said.. \u201cThey\u2019ll fall into nefarious situations where someone would sell them on the black market. You can\u2019t put them in a cage with other birds, they will just kill all the chickens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir fate is to be humanely euthanized in the field,\u201d Welsh said. \u201cIt\u2019s better than that barbaric tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jason Felch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-seven roosters were euthanized Sunday morning after Riverside County authorities broke up a cockfighting ring near the Salton Sea. Acting on a tip, a dozen Riverside County sheriff\u2019s deputies and animal control officers busted the open-air cockfight shortly after 10 a.m. in the 100000 block of Avenue 72, known as the North Shore area, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}