Animal Welfare News

Following a final sentencing hearing, all 14 defendants convicted in a large-scale federal dog fighting case in Albany, Georgia, have been sentenced to a total of 343 months in prison for dog fighting and other charges.

An indictment was unsealed charging 11 defendants from across the United States for their alleged involvement with online groups dedicated to creating and distributing videos depicting acts of extreme violence and sexual abuse against monkeys.

Onill Vazquez Lozada of Providence, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty today to two counts of possessing, sponsoring, and exhibiting birds in an animal fighting venture in violation of the Animal Welfare Act.

A Massachusetts man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, with the final three months to be served in community confinement, after pleading guilty to nine counts of possessing animals for use in an animal fighting venture, in violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma unsealed a grand jury indictment charging an Oklahoma man with violations of the dog fighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act.

All 14 defendants in a large-scale federal dog fighting case indicted last year in Albany, Georgia, have now been convicted.