DOG FIGHTING RING BASED AT DAYCARE HOME RAIDED - Press Conference
Three people have been arrested and nine dogs are undergoing surgery and rehabilitation after the Cook County Sheriff's Department's Animal Crimes Unit raided a west suburban dog fighting operation, based at a house that also serves as a daycare home, Sheriff Tom Dart announced Wednesday. Police found a dog with its eye ripped out, a dog with a leg twisted backward and a dog with its lower extremities nearly ripped off its body when they were found Tuesday. The scene at three different Maywood homes was among the most gruesome officers have uncovered, made even more harrowing by the presence of a licensed daycare operation, Dart said. Wednesday, state officials shut down the daycare operation. In addition, the daycare operator's husband, Charles Sutton, was charged with felony dog fighting, as was Lance Webb, also of Maywood. Another man, Martez Anderson, was charged with being a felon in possession of an unneutered or unspayed dog, a misdemeanor. "Kids were playing on a swing set just 10 feet away from a vicious fighting dog and blood-stained floors," Dart said. "The very equipment used to train these dogs to kill was being kept in the garage right behind the house. To be engaged in this sort of activity is disturbing enough, but to take a chance with anybody's children is reprehensible." The daycare operator insisted she was not involved in dog fighting and maintained children were never near the dogs or dog fighting equipment. When police arrived at the daycare home ... Powertec Fitness Free Shipping
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