RICHMOND, Va. — The judge didn’t mince words when it came time to sentence five North Carolina men in an illegal dogfighting operation that involved more than 150 pit bulls.
“Either the dogs have to be eliminated from the world or the people who fight the dogs or both, but there needs to be an intervention by the law and it’s going to start here,” U.S.
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