Crime

Feds lock up a dozen people in dog fighting ring bust

By Tim Pearce
Published July 5, 2019 3:01pm ET
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Feds lock up a dozen people in dog fighting ring bust
In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2014, a dog seized during the second-largest dog fighting bust in U.S. history sits in a pen at a kennel in Jacksonville, Fla. | (Jason Dearen/AP)

A federal court in New Jersey convicted the last of a dozen defendants on charges related to a multistate dog fighting ring.

The court sentenced Justin Love, 39, to four and half years in prison and Robert Elliott, 50, and Dajwan Ware, 46, to two years each. All were convicted on felony charges of conspiracy to violate animal fighting laws. Love and Elliott were each convicted on multiple accounts of owning dogs they intended to use in dog fighting.

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