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Release Number: 09-335

For Immediate Release

Public Information Office

December 14, 2009

JD Callaway: jcallawa@hcso.tampa.fl.us

(813) 247-8060

 

 

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Suspects arrested:

 

Jesse Alvarez

DOB 1/11/48

514 Greenway Drive

Charge: Attending An Event With Fighting Animals

 

Pedro Najera

DOB 10/20/58

37150 Withlacoochee Drive, Dade City

Charge: Attending An Event With Fighting Animals

 

Isabel Arellano

DOB 11/20/62

243 Coronet Road, Mulberry

Charge: Attending An Event With Fighting Animals

 

Zhomey Garcia-Duran

DOB 9/30/91

38811 Story Drive, Dade City

Charge: Attending An Event With Fighting Animals

 

Carlos Penaloza Acosta

DOB 9/2/74

112 Talavera Lane, Kissimmee

Charge: Attending An Event With Fighting Animals

 

Manuel Elizondo Flores

DOB 6/19/45

5252 New Tampa Highway 14, Lakeland

Charge: Attending An Event With Fighting Animals

 

 
What:

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrest 7 suspects in Cockfighting Raid
When:

Sun Dec 13, 2009 20:14:15
Where:

513 Greenway Drive, Plant City
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HCSO deputies responded to 513 Greenway Drive today around 11:47 a.m. and discovered a cockfighting operation. Seven people were arrested on felony charges. In the back yard of the eastern Hillsborough County residence was a fighting pit and pens holding roosters, breeding hens and chicks.

 

Detectives discovered dozens of dead roosters on the property. Some of the birds had been tossed into a pit in the back yard; some were in a wheelbarrow; and some were in a sack. It is unknown how many roosters were killed in the cockfighting. A second pit was freshly covered and is believed to contain more dead birds.

 

Hillsborough County Animal Services was called to the scene, and investigators determined that all of the remaining roosters, most of which were prepared and ready for fighting, would be euthanized on scene. The number of roosters euthanized is at least 70.

 

There were dozens of hens and chicks in the pens, and those birds were to be returned to the property owner, who does not live at the residence and was not charged.

 

The investigation by HCSO, Animal Services and county Code Enforcement continues.