UPDATE: DA Announces Investigation Following Search of Farm
“We are not going to tolerate or allow this type of illegal activity to occur in Washington County,” the district attorney said.
Washington County District Attorney Eugene A. Vittone II announced Wednesday that the investigation continues into alleged cock fighting following a search of a Daisytown farm. While executing a search warrant there, state police in Washington retrieved 127 birds along with a large amount of cock-fighting materials that investigators believe may be related to an to an alleged cock-fighting operation in southwestern Pennsylvania. “Police report that the birds were kept within a ‘rooster yard’ in individual housing units and those units were manufactured using pickle barrels and/or 3-foot high white canvas teepees," Vittone said. "Many birds were tethered to their barrel or teepee, which is the typical practice in the cockfighting industry…
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