The Chief General of the Indonesian National Police promoted three officers posthumously after they were fatally shot during an illegal cockfighting bust.
Authorities, together with two animal welfare organizations, busted three cockfighting rings within 48 hours. Hundreds of fighting roosters were freed and rescued during the operations.
Last August 2024, New Jersey detectives busted an illegal cockfighting ring in Atlantic County. Today, prosecutors indicted almost 50 people who were allegedly involved in the cockfighting event.
California has strict laws against cockfighting, however, the activity still persists. To solve the problem and bolster penalties, Assemblymember Chris Rogers has introduced a Cockfighting Cruelty Act at the State Assembly.
The Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas has ordered an investigation on Cebu City Mayor Garcia and Police Colonel Cañete based on sufficient evidence over criminal and administrative complaints against them.
For conservationists in Latin America, roosters are not the only victims of cockfighting. The endangered species of hawksbill sea turtles have also become an unlikely victim, harvests for their shells which are then turned into cockfighting spurs.
Despite the ban, cockfighting events happened in full swing during the three-day Sankranti festival in Andhra Pradesh. Thousands of attendees flocked to arenas, making bets that amounted to billions of rupees.
Cockfighting is illegal in Hawai’i but breeding and raising fighting roosters is not. A rooster farm on the island of Kaua’i has been the subject of irritation of many residents on the island due to the noise of the birds, stoking up issues about underground…
A Doylestown woman, charged with operating an illegal cockfighting ring, may get the chance to have her arrest record expunged if she completes a 12-month rehabilitation program that a judge allowed her to enter.