HIALEAH, Fla. – Detectives following up on a fraud case in a Hialeah business house Thursday “stumbled upon” a cockfighting operation run out of an auto portions retailer, in line with police.
The trade’s proprietor, Juan Romero, 58, is now dealing with a couple of prison fees.
According to his arrest document, financial crimes detectives have been running within the 4600 block of East tenth Lane after they “stumbled upon a large number of individual cages” positioned in an alleyway.
They mentioned they discovered a number of male chickens, frequently referred to as cocks, within the rear of the trade, caged and appearing indicators of cockfighting. Some had feathers plucked from their legs, the document states.
A neighboring trade proprietor allowed police to look the rear of his trade, the place detectives discovered extra individually-caged cocks.
Additionally, detectives mentioned they discovered crimson foam such as a cock, frequently used as an agitator to coach roosters for preventing.
While leaving the alley, detectives encountered Romero, the landlord of A&M A/C Auto Parts Inc., positioned at 4630 E. tenth Lane.
Police mentioned Romero showed he owned the cocks and allowed officials to look the trade, the place they discovered a cockfighting ring and extra roosters.
Romero made a remark to police previous to his arrest, which used to be redacted from the document.
Lt. Eddie Rodriguez, a Hialeah police spokesperson, showed that detectives found out roughly 160 preventing roosters inside of person cages.
“(They) were being bred and trained to fight,” he mentioned.
An individual within the house, who requested to stay nameless, mentioned it used to be well known amongst folks dwelling and dealing within reach that Romero used to be elevating roosters, however he wasn’t recognized to have raised them for preventing.
“You can’t hide it. They are cock-a-doodle-doo-ing all day long,” that particular person mentioned. “From what I understand is he was raising roosters in the alley behind the building, I don’t know of any fighting that was going on.”
“Welcome to Hialeah,” the individual added.
Another particular person mentioned, in Spanish, “I’ve never seen them fighting here.”
Jail information display Romero used to be arrested on fees of possessing animals to battle, unlawful ownership of animal preventing apparatus and the use of a assets for the use of animal preventing.
As of Friday, he used to be being held on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center the place his bond used to be set at $5,000.
He used to be additionally hit with an unsafe construction realize.
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