Sentences with phrase «largest cockfighting»

Two people were sentenced today in connection with AG Eric Schneiderman's «Operation Angry Birds,» the largest cockfighting ring bust in New York that stretched from New York City to Ulster County.

In what Schneiderman calls the largest cockfighting takedown in state history, the attorney general's office rescued 6,000 birds and made nine felony arrests following raids in Queens, Brooklyn and Ulster County.

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The new laws signed by the governor strengthen the Texas statutes to crack down on cockfighting, provide standards for large - scale dog breeding operations, and upgrade the animal cruelty laws.

We banned cockfighting, made dogfighting a felony offense, passed licensing and regulatory control of puppy mills, increased penalties for neglect and abuse, covered birds under cruelty statutes, regulated the keeping of large carnivores, preserved local regulations on farm animals, and most recently, we helped pass the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act which has closed down over 1,200 puppy mills.

Law enforcement agencies across the country call upon us to assist with the invesigation and prosecution of every type of animal abuse — from individual situations of neglect and abuse, to cockfighting or dogfighting operations, to abusive, illegal puppy mill operations and to large - scale animal cruelty situations such as animal hoarding.