SACRAMENTO COUNTY, California (KOVR) — Protecting animals from abuse is the goal of new rules being proposed next week in Sacramento County that would regulate rooster ownership. Sacramento County has been a hotspot for the crime over the years, including a major bust last December when sheriff’s deputies raided a property in Herald and found more than 200 birds.
“They saw 40 to 50 people running in all directions, some people getting in their cars and taking off,” Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Amar Gandhi said. “When we stop cockfighting, we make our communities safer,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Welfare Action.
Pacelle said the illegal events often come with other crimes. “Illegal gambling, narcotics trafficking and the like, this is always the case that cockfighting is co-mingled with other criminal behavior,” Pacelle said…