Monday, March 5, 2012

4 DOZEN PEOPLE CHARGED AT PAVILION COCKFIGHTING ARENA.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: Associated Press

PAVILION Four roosters lay dead in the snow outside as sheriff's deputies rounded up 48 people accused of gathering in a barn for cockfights.

During the raid Saturday night in this town 25 miles southwest of Rochester, one man snuck inside a chicken coop, but a deputy spotted his feet and pulled him out.

Authorities seized about $5,000, a small amount of marijuana and cocaine, a .38-caliber handgun and knives. All four dozen suspects, most of them from Rochester or Buffalo, were charged with engaging in a cockfighting contest, a misdemeanor under New York's Agricultural and Markets Law.

Property owner Miguel …

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