SENTENCED TO 20 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR ENGAGING IN ANIMAL CRUELTY
According to a press release issued by the US Department of Justice, a veterinary technician (49) based out of Rapidan, Virginia, was recently sentenced to 20 months in prison (and three years of supervised released) for engaging in, and promoting, “dogfighting using interstate publications.”
The guy apparently abused animals starting in his teens, and eventually ended up publishing a national magazine called “the Connector” – which interviewed dog-fighters and advertised “the illegal sale of injectable steroids and other substances for dogs.”
His work as a vet tech is said to have given him access to medications which he then purloined and used to treat dogs during fights. (And if the animal lost, or refused to fight, it reportedly would be executed via “electrocution” or other “brutal means.”)
In a written statement, Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, noted that, “This prosecution highlights the department’s continued commitment to holding accountable those who participate in and promote the blood sport of dogfighting …. The defendant’s certification and work as a veterinary technician, which he used to further these fights and promote the barbarous treatment of dogs, makes his crimes even more reprehensible.”
That outcome had to have dogged him.
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