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Central Florida man discovered responsible of a number of felonies associated to organized canine preventing ring

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A Daytona Beach man was convicted of a number of felony fees Friday, greater than two years after police found an organized dog fighting ring.

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The Daytona Beach Police Department started their investigation again in February of 2021 after a resident on Reva Street referred to as in a criticism about animals in misery at a neighboring property.

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Investigators responded to the property and instantly noticed dozens of dogs and puppies that had been clearly being bred and utilized in an organized canine preventing ring.

Some of the dogs had been restrained with heavy chains, a tactic used to build power and endurance. Others had been both caged for isolation or had wounds that had been according to totally different levels of therapeutic.

A search of the property additionally yielded canine dietary supplements and injectable drugs typically utilized in canine preventing rings.

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In all, Daytona Beach Police and Volusia County Animal Services seized 42 dogs from a vacant lot on the property and an adjoining home.

Three men were arrested and 40 dogs were seized after Daytona Beach police officials said they busted a dog fighting ring.

Three males had been arrested and 40 dogs had been seized after Daytona Beach police officers mentioned they busted a canine preventing ring.

Police arrested three males: now 56-year-old Noble Geathers, 53-year-old Earl Holmes, and 35-year-old Benjamin Ponder.

After a five-day trial, Geathers was convicted by a Volusia County jury Friday on 12 counts of felony cruelty to animals, 9 counts of animal preventing and one depend of animal fighting-property selling.

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“This defendant has been a scourge in our community for too long,” State Attorney R.J. Larizza mentioned in a press release saying the decision. “It is time to send him away for good.”

Geathers can be sentenced by choose Leah Case on May 19. Both Holmes and Ponder are nonetheless awaiting trial.

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