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Posted: Wednesday, 13 January 2010 3:53PM
Man pleads guilty in dog fighting ring
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MAYWOOD (STMW) -- The third defendant charged in connection with a dog fighting ring based at a daycare pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
Charles Sutton, 42, of Maywood, pleaded guilty to felony dog fighting, according to a release from the Cook County Sheriff's office.
The other two defendants in the case, cousins Martez Anderson and Lance Webb of Maywood, entered guilty pleas in December. Anderson, 38, was sentenced to two years and Webb, 27, received 18 months.
Last September, the sheriff's police Animal Crimes Unit arrested the three after an investigation found they were running a dog fighting ring from their west suburban homes.
Sutton's wife was also operating a daycare in one of the homes where dogs were found. She was not charged with a crime, but her daycare license was revoked by the state.
Nine severely injured dogs were rescued from these residences and turned over to the Animal Welfare League in Chicago Ridge.
At the time of the arrest, Sheriff Tom Dart said conditions at the Maywood homes were among the most gruesome his officers had ever come across, made even more harrowing by the presence of the daycare operation.
One "very aggressive" dog was removed from a detached garage behind the daycare, where about 10 children were being cared for when officers arrived to seize the badly injured animal.
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