Frederick Douglass Moorefield, Jr., 63, pleaded guilty to federal charges that include conspiracy to engage in animal fighting, specifically the fighting of dogs, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering.
According to the guilty plea, federal agents began investigating Moorefield’s connections to dogfighting after officers from Anne Arundel County Animal Control responded to a report of two dead dogs found in a plastic dog food bag in Annapolis in November 2018.
Moorefield was affiliated with a dogfighting enterprise known as the “DMV Board,” which operated throughout the region, officials say
The Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control, and Communications for Office of the Secretary of Defense, and a co-conspirator used an encrypted messaging application to communicate with others across the country to discuss dogfighting, according to prosecutors.
He used the name “Geehad Kennels” to identify his operation, which he ran out of his Anne Arundel County home for more than two decades, where he bred, trained, and kept the animals.