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Holyoke man pleads guilty for mistreating more than 400 fowl in Northampton: Admits to training roosters for cockfighting
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
Posted Feb 18, 2021
This is one of the 400 birds seized in Northampton after a raid on a farm. (MSCPA photo)
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NORTHAMPTON – A Holyoke man pled guilty Thursday to badly mistreating hundreds of roosters, that he had trained for illegal cockfighting, which were found during a raid 2018 raid of a small farm in the Florence section of the city.
Miguel Rodriguez, 59, was sentenced to serve two years of probation, the first six months of which will be in home confinement and while wearing a GPS monitoring device, after admitting in Northampton District Court to felony charges of animal cruelty and owning, possessing and training animals for fighting, said Mary Carey, spokeswoman for Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan.