{"id":218661,"date":"2021-08-11T07:25:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theaegisalliance.com\/?p=218661"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:57:55","slug":"long-island-dog-fighting-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/2021\/08\/11\/larga-isla-perro-peleando-busto\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Dogfighting Bust: 89 Dogs Pulled Out of a Ring That Ran Into Connecticut and Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219500\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219500\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Long-Island-New-York-dog-fighting-bust-leads-to-89-pooches-rescued-6.jpg\" alt=\"A pit bull behind bars after the Suffolk County dogfighting rescue of 89 dogs\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ten people were arrested in connection with the ring. (Suffolk County District Attorney)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK \u2014<\/strong> District Attorney Timothy D. Sini stood up on August 9, 2021 with the ASPCA, State Police, NYPD, Nassau DA, and two SPCAs and said they had just taken down one of the largest dogfighting rings in New York history. Ten men arrested. Eighty-nine dogs pulled out of yards, basements, and fight stock across Long Island, New York City, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspca.org\/about-us\/press-releases\/suffolk-county-district-attorney-sini-partners-announce-arrest-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ASPCA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/dog-fighting-animal-abuse-cruelty-aspca\/10940769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/09\/long-island-dog-fighting-bust-leads-to-89-pooches-rescued\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> ran the same ledger.<\/p>\n<p>Dogfighting is not a hobby. It is a business that treats animals as inventory and trains people to enjoy pain. The 89 dogs were the inventory. The ten arrests were the staff. Whether those ten did serious time is a docket question this desk will not pretend a press conference answered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_59180\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uNuptCDirPI?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Interstate Dogfighting Ring Taken Down On Long Island\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uNuptCDirPI\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2017\/06\/15\/major-country-just-banned-killer-whale-dolphin-breeding\/\">the killer-whale breeding ban<\/a> and more <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/category\/news\/crime-news\/\">Crime News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multiagency Long Island investigation rescued about 89 dogs and arrested ten men in one of New York&#8217;s largest dogfighting busts, spanning Suffolk, Nassau, New York City, and other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196370,21,24],"tags":[205913,195845,65857,197361,188512,191620,196694,190830],"class_list":["post-218661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-news","category-news","category-us-news","tag-connecticut","tag-crime-news","tag-dogs","tag-long-island","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Long-Island-New-York-dog-fighting-bust-leads-to-89-pooches-rescued-6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198962,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218661\/revisions\/1198962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}