Fighting Roosters at Airport Lead to Charges
Authorities have charged a New York City man who tried to claim a shipment of fighting roosters at Newark Liberty International Airport last week, exposing what they said was a major supply route in the underground gaming industry.
Agents with the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals arrested Raphael Quezada, 34, and charged him with possession of fighting birds, a third-degree crime.
Quezada had attempted to pick up 17 roosters that had arrived on a Continental Airlines flight from Puerto Rico.
The agents said they found evidence of prior shipments of birds.
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