KANSAS CITY – Kansas City, Mo., resident Vinol Wilson, 52, pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing a firearm after a felony conviction and to multiple federal dog fighting offenses.
Those offenses include conspiring to violate the federal Animal Welfare Act’s animal fighting law, keeping a dog for use in dog fighting, and buying and receiving a dog to use in a dog fighting venture.
“Wilson subjected animals to pain and suffering all for sport and profit,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Adam R.F. Gustafson of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Energy and Natural Resources Division. “The Justice Department continues to aggressively prosecute this criminal activity, and we work with our partners to rescue dogs whenever we can.”…