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He found the property at 1915 Moonlight Road in Surry County to establish a place to house and train the pit bulls, authorities said. Court documents show he also helped purchase four pit bulls in September 2001. In 2002, the documents show, he apparently executed at least two dogs that did not perform well in test fights. [27]
The federal papers also state "If an admission fee was charged for a particular event, the proceeds were generally used to supplement the funding of the 'Bad Newz Kennels' kennel operation." [17] July 6 - Federal authorities, assisted by the Virginia State Police, conduct an additional search of the Surry County location.
In September 2007, BAD RAP was contracted by the federal government to participate in evaluating 49 pit bulls from Bad Newz Kennels, Michael Vick's dog fighting operation, [5] as part of nine-person ASPCA-led evaluation team. BAD RAP member Tim Racer later returned to Virginia to re-evaluate 48 of the pit bulls alongside the court-appointed ...
A 3-year-old Minnesota boy who was attacked by two pit bulls last week is not expected to survive, his family said. The parents of Covil Allen are preparing their son to be an organ donor, the ...
A 75-pound rescue pit bull named Pancho loves being called a “good boy" — and more than lives up to the name. Pancho reached heroic status in June when he fought an armed intruder who broke ...
Beginning in January 2008, Garcia helped care for and train 22 of the confiscated pit bull terriers from NFL star Michael Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels illegal dog-fighting operation. Garcia was featured in an article and in a photo on the front page of The New York Times with Georgia, one of the shyer Vick dogs, asleep with him on a cot.
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In 2007, after petitioning the state of Virginia to save the dogs seized from the Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation, Best Friends took in 22 of the 47 fighting dogs of former NFL quarterback Michael Vick. [32] The dogs were expected to be euthanized for fear of aggressive behavior. [33] Seven other organizations took in the remaining ...