LeShon Johnson, seen here as a running back for the New York Giants during his final season in the NFL, was convicted Monday of running a dog fighting breeding and trafficking operation. File Photo by ...

Three men were arrested in Savannah, Georgia on dog fighting and drug charges. The dogs are currently being held as evidence at Chatham County Animal Services. Rescued fighting dogs can take years to ...

Dog fighting is as secretive as it is barbaric. The people behind the illegal bloodsport carefully conceal their identities, fearful of arrest and prosecution. However, one dog fighter's IT mix-up led ...

Former Green Bay Packers running back LeShon Johnson was convicted on six felony counts related to dogfighting, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The counts against the 54-year-old ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Tuesday, an attorney looked to essentially null and void charges against a Savannah man accused of running a dog-fighting ring. Isaiah Goodman appeared in court on Tuesday with ...

Court documents and prosecutors allege that Johnson operated a dog-fighting enterprise under the name “Mal Kant Kennels”, based in Broken Arrow and Haskell, Oklahoma. The scheme involved the selective ...

A federal jury convicted a former Packers player in a dog fighting operation. Authorities seized 190 dogs from his property; the largest number ever seized from a single person in a federal dog ...

(CNN) — A former NFL player has been convicted for running an operation that bred and trafficked “grand champion” dogs and their offspring for dogfighting, the Department of Justice said. LeShon ...

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TIMMONSVILLE — The State Law Enforcement Division has charged a Timmonsville man with animal fighting after rescuing eight dogs. Saquan Emanuel Brown, 27, was charged with nine counts of animal ...

(CNN) — A former NFL player has been convicted for running an Oklahoma operation that bred and trafficked “grand champion” dogs and their offspring for dogfighting, the Department of Justice said.

The Oklahoma native previously pleaded guilty to state animal fighting charges in 2004 Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work ...