This is particularly the case as
issues of poverty become increasingly entwined with
drugs and violent crime, which in any case demand immediate coercive interaction by some sanctioned
authority.
Once the indictments were
issued,
authorities launched raids in Matagorda, Tyler, Jasper, Montgomery and Harris counties, arresting 8 of the miscreants and seizing 187 dogs along with dog fighting paraphernalia, videos of dog fighting, weapons, illegal
drugs and stolen property.