FRANKFORT, N.Y. (AP) - Officials say two people have been caught trying to steal dozens of roosters that were rescued when authorities busted up a large cockfighting ring in New York.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says Thursday that a 41-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, both from Utica, were arrested Tuesday in the Herkimer County village of Poland.
Schneiderman says the suspects broke into a barn where some 50 chickens were being kept after they were rescued last weekend from a bird fighting operation in the nearby town of Frankfort.
The police raid at a landscaping business uncovered cockfighting held in a barn, with an additional 180 birds in an adjacent structure being used as a game bird breeding and training facility.
Authorities charged 41 people and seized drugs, guns and $68,000 in cash.
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