Sun coverage: Dogfighting in Baltimore

In underworld of drugs and violence, pit bulls can be as menacing as their owners

August 26, 2007

Putting a leash on dogfighting

When police officers burst into a West Baltimore Street rowhouse on a hot August afternoon, their target was a suspected drug dealer, and the raid yielded a stash of cocaine, heroin gel caps and marijuana. But they found much more: a loaded revolver as well as two pit bull terriers and the weights, chains, homemade harness and other equipment that are telltale signs of dogfighting.

September 16, 2007

Cruel sport hides in shadows

The arrests of two Severna Park residents on dogfighting charges were unusual, but officials say they were not the first signs that the blood sport takes place in Anne Arundel County.

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