The FBI offers information on dogs
rescued from a dogfighting network.
A New Mexico man’s long journey
through the legal process for his extensive role in a dogfighting network—from
his arrest in 2016 to his guilty plea last year to his sentencing last
month—raises a logical question: What happens to the rescued dogs as the case
is wending its way through the courts?
Robert Arellano, of Albuquerque, was
sentenced April 4 in federal court in New Jersey to four years in
prison for his involvement in a multi-state dogfighting network. When he and
others were arrested in a coordinated operation spanning five states and the
District of Columbia, investigating agencies, including the FBI, rescued 85
dogs.
What happened next was a tightly
orchestrated process involving the U.S. Marshals Service, animal rescue
organizations, federal agents, and a small cadre of Department of Justice (DOJ)
prosecutors and federal forfeiture attorneys. Their collective goal, refined
over years, is to get recovered dogs screened, treated, rehabilitated when
feasible, and, if appropriate, adopted out to new families as soon as possible.
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