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How SHARK stole Christmas from a bar full of alleged cockfighters

December 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Who in Whoville called SHARK?  Who called the cops?  Who tipped off the cockfighters?  Who wants to know? PINE KNOT, Kentucky––Whoville,  the primary setting of the 1957 Dr. Suess fable How The Grinch Stole Christmas,  huddled beneath the abandoned Star Studying Tower on Mount Crumpit,  might almost have been modeled on the poverty-stricken former coal […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Suess, Honest Abe's, Merritt Clifton, Millard Oscar Hubbard, Steve Hindi

Alleged cockfighter indicted for bribery in Kentucky, others named

March 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

31 missing cockfighters becomes a presidential campaign issue in the Philippines LEXINGTON,  Kentucky;  MANILA, Philippines––The U.S. Department of Justice on March 2,  2022 disclosed the names of four more alleged cockfighters against whom sealed federal indictments were issued on February 24,  2022 in London,  Kentucky. No further information,  however,  has been forthcoming about who was […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Pacific rim, Philippines, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Carlton S. Shier IV, Cruz Alejandro Mercado-Vazquez, Jerrard McVey, Jodi Cohen, Linda McVey, Millard Oscar Hubbard, Panfilo Lacson, Rodrigo Duterte, Steve Hindi, Vicente Sotto III, Walter H. Mitchell

Feds indict 13 Kentucky cockfighters flushed out by SHARK; more busts likely

March 2, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Indictments do not mention February 25,  2022 FBI raid in Whitesburg,  Kentucky             LONDON, Kentucky––Eight alleged cockfight organizers and five alleged cockfighters were indicted for federal felonies in grand jury indictments issued on February 24,  2022 in London,  Kentucky,  unsealed on March 1,  2022. Citing more than a dozen alleged specific dates of cockfights held […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Beachel Collett, Bradley Cye Rose, Dallas M. Cope, Harold “Fuzzy” Hale, Hiram Creech Jr., Jacklyn R. Johnson, John Root, Joshua Westerfield, Justin Smith, Lester Collett, Millard Oscar Hubbard, Orville D. Asher, Rickie D. Johnson, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, Timothy Sizemore

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