DOWN
A LONG DIRT DRIVEWAY AT 2015 ATWATER ROAD 50 PEOPLE HAD
GATHERED SATURDAY MORNING. THE SIGN ON THE PROPERTY OF ERNEST
SAMS SAID HILLTOP POULTRY SHOW , BUT UPSON COUNTY SHERIFF
DAN KILGORE SAID COCK FIGHTING WAS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE.
ROOSTERS
WERE IN CAGES WITH SHARP OBJECTS ATTACHED TO THEIR LEGS—AND
THE WEIGH-INS WERE UNDER WAY FOR WAGERING TO BEGIN NEAR
THE FIGHTING PIT.
THE
SHERIFF SAID UNITS ROUNDED UP 44 ADULTS AND ONE MALE
JUVENILE AND TOOK THEM TO JAIL. THE 15 YEAR OLD
TURNED OVER TO A RELATIVE. PARTICIPANTS CAME FROM ALL
OVER THIS PART OF GEORGIA.
THEY
WERE CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND WERE FREED ON
$1000 BOND EACH.
SHERIFF
KILGORE SAID HIS OFFICE HAD BEEN HEARING RUMORS OF
COCK-FIGHTING FOR SEVERAL WEEKS—ONE REPORT SAID WOUNDED AND
DEAD CHICKENS WERE THROW IN A FIRE PIT TO DISPOSE OF THEM.
THE
S.O. REPORT SAID ERNEST SAMS KEPT 100 FIGHTING ROOSTERS ON
HIS PROPERTY—ABOUT 50 VECHILES WERE PARKED IN THE WOODS
WHEN LAWMAN APPROACHED AND CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE AROUND
9;30AM JUST BEFORE THE EVENTS WERE TO BEGIN.
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