![]() ![]() ![]() “Animal Wellness Action noted that the Easterlings made hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps millions, on the illicit sale of fighting birds,” Irby said. (Beth Clifton collage) “Other cockfighting networks are watching” Penalties for an adult in attendance are one year in prison and a $5,000 fine,” said Irby. “Penalties for each violation of any one of these provisions allows for a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for perpetrators, except for an adult attending an animal fighting venture. federal law allows Americans to sell gamefowl and cockfighting paraphernalia abroad, so long as the actual “animal fighting venture” is “performed outside the U.S.”īut the charges indicate that the Easterlings were not able to operate through the relatively narrow loophole without violating other Animal Welfare Act provisions. The federal laws allegedly broken by the Easterlings, adopted as amendments to the Animal Welfare Act, prohibit knowingly sponsoring or exhibiting any animal in a fighting venture knowingly attend an animal fighting venture knowingly causing an individual under age of 16 to attend an animal fight and knowingly buying, selling, possessing, training, transporting, delivering, or receiving any animal for purposes of having the animal participate in an animal fight.Ī loophole in the U.S. The sentencing hearing for Brent Easterling, the alleged ringleader, operator of the L&L Game Farm, also in Verbena, Alabama, is set for November 8, 2022, along with sentencing hearings for three other defendants. Billy, Tyler, and William Easterling allegedly operate the Swift Creek Game Farm in Verbena, Alabama. ![]() Sentencing hearings for three defendants, believed to be Billy, Tyler, and William Easterling, are scheduled for September 29, 2022. MONTGOMERY, Alabama––Cockfighters and gamefowl breeders Brent Easterling, William Easterling, and five other members of their family on Augpleaded guilty to federal and state of Alabama charges filed in 2021 as “conspiracy to violate federal anti-animal fighting laws, including operating fighting pits on their properties, possessing thousands of fighting animals, transporting those animals across the globe for fighting, and trafficking in cockfighting implements,” summarized Animal Wellness Action spokesperson Marty Irby in a media release urging that the Easterlings receive “prison time and six-figure fines” at their forthcoming sentencing hearings. (Beth Clifton collage) Exported gamecocks around the world ![]()
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