September 11, 2007
BY BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Prosecutors charged 10 people Monday with felonies after a weekend raid of a pit bull fight in progress inside a vacant Detroit home.
Acting on an anonymous tip, officers raided a home at 12:45 a.m. Sunday on the 19100 block of Asbury Park, where they found two pit bulls fighting in the basement and an unknown number of people fleeing through a back window.
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Police said they announced their arrival and someone slammed the front door, temporarily holding it shut until officers pushed their way through.
Officers arrested eight men, including a Georgia resident, and two women. They are charged with attending an animal fight, a four-year felony, and entry without breaking, a five-year felony.
Charged are Timothy Robinson, 35; Donald Jenkins, 22; Christopher Welch, 40; Roy Wells, 38; Aisha McCormick, 28, Keith Turner 39; Ayana Lee, 30; Pierre M ason, 23; George Roberson, 21, and Eddie Myles, 29. All of the defendants are from Detroit except Myles, who is from Decatur, Ga.
The suspects are scheduled to be arraigned today in 36th District Court.
Officers said both dogs had to be shot at the scene because they could not be controlled.
Less than two weeks ago, Inkster police arrested nine people in a similar situation after a vacant home was raided Aug. 30. The men in that incident are charged with attending an animal fight. They are accused of crowding into a vacant house for a pit bull fight in the basement and powering the home with portable fluorescent lights.
A similar lighting arrangement was at found at the Detroit home, where the power to the electric meter was off.
On Friday, the Free Press carried a special report on the underworld of dog fighting in the metro area, highlighting the Inkster case as well as other recent incidents in Detroit, Pontiac and Ypsilanti Township.
Th e Michigan Humane Society's Detroit office investigated 159 dogfighting complaints last year, and 70 through this August.
Contact BEN SCHMITT at 313-223-4296 bcscmitt@freepress.com.
BY BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Prosecutors charged 10 people Monday with felonies after a weekend raid of a pit bull fight in progress inside a vacant Detroit home.
Acting on an anonymous tip, officers raided a home at 12:45 a.m. Sunday on the 19100 block of Asbury Park, where they found two pit bulls fighting in the basement and an unknown number of people fleeing through a back window.
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Police said they announced their arrival and someone slammed the front door, temporarily holding it shut until officers pushed their way through.
Officers arrested eight men, including a Georgia resident, and two women. They are charged with attending an animal fight, a four-year felony, and entry without breaking, a five-year felony.
Charged are Timothy Robinson, 35; Donald Jenkins, 22; Christopher Welch, 40; Roy Wells, 38; Aisha McCormick, 28, Keith Turner 39; Ayana Lee, 30; Pierre M ason, 23; George Roberson, 21, and Eddie Myles, 29. All of the defendants are from Detroit except Myles, who is from Decatur, Ga.
The suspects are scheduled to be arraigned today in 36th District Court.
Officers said both dogs had to be shot at the scene because they could not be controlled.
Less than two weeks ago, Inkster police arrested nine people in a similar situation after a vacant home was raided Aug. 30. The men in that incident are charged with attending an animal fight. They are accused of crowding into a vacant house for a pit bull fight in the basement and powering the home with portable fluorescent lights.
A similar lighting arrangement was at found at the Detroit home, where the power to the electric meter was off.
On Friday, the Free Press carried a special report on the underworld of dog fighting in the metro area, highlighting the Inkster case as well as other recent incidents in Detroit, Pontiac and Ypsilanti Township.
Th e Michigan Humane Society's Detroit office investigated 159 dogfighting complaints last year, and 70 through this August.
Contact BEN SCHMITT at 313-223-4296 bcscmitt@freepress.com.
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Lisa C. Hetrick (Compton)
Richmond Area Representative for Dogs Deserve Better
www.dogsdeservebetter.com
Member of Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare
www.virginiavotersforanimalwelfare.com
Virginia Anti-Dogfighting Coalition
"I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man" M. Gandhi (1869-1948)
Lisa C. Hetrick (Compton)
Richmond Area Representative for Dogs Deserve Better
www.dogsdeservebetter.com
Member of Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare
www.virginiavotersforanimalwelfare.com
Virginia Anti-Dogfighting Coalition
"I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man" M. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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