Illegal Cockfighting Ring Busted in Parker County

0:00It's April 7th, I'm Cory with The Story, and this is Dallas News Today, your AI-powered local news. Deputies in Parker County busted an illegal cockfighting setup last month, arresting Ernesto Roacha Ramirez on March 31st for Cruelty 2, Livestock and Cockfighting. The guy was living in the U.S. illegally, so ICE put a deportation hold on him while he's locked up with Al Bond. Officers showed up for a welfare check and found a nightmare dead birds half-burned in barrels. Officers live pluck for fights and spurs like short. To strap on killing blades, they pulled 200 chicken coops packed with dead ones plus steroids in antibiotics. A vet examined the first 28 roosters and 14 hen seized, calling it pure torture with no medical excuse, just unnecessary pain to, toughen them up, that sparked the full raid. On April 2nd, Cruz rescued another 359 birds from the property, shipping them straight to weather for an animal shelter for real.

1:00Treatment and care. Share for us out there made it clear, animal cruelty hits hard here, whether it's birds or anything else crawling the earth. These fights end now, and justice is rolling.