16 charged after dog-fight raid in Sunset

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16 charged after dog-fight raid in Sunset
By RICHARD BURGESS

Acadiana bureau

OPELOUSAS -- Prosecutors have filed formal charges against 16 people
arrested in an April raid of a dog fight near Sunset -- a rare case in
which police allegedly caught the secretive activity in progress, the
St. Landry Parish District Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

"We've never had a dog-fighting case where we have actually caught them
fighting," District Attorney Earl Taylor said.

In the April 17 raid of the alleged dogfight in a metal shed on Henry
Road near Sunset, State Police arrested 17 adults and two juveniles,
including the man who prosecutors said owned the property, John Guidry,
49, of Sunset.

Police arrested five more people the next day when they came to reclaim
vehicles that agents seized in the raid.

The formal charges announced Thursday named 16 individuals -- seven,
including Guidry, on felony charges of training fighting dogs or helping
organize a fight and nine on misdemeanor charges of attending a dog fight.

The felony charges carry a possible sentence of one to 10 years in
prison; the misdemeanors, up to six months.

Taylor said the investigation is continuing against the others arrested,
and more charges might be filed.

The Sunset raid was one of three major dog-fighting stings this year in
southern Louisiana.

In March, State Police arrested internationally known pit-bull terrier
breeder Floyd J. Boudreaux, 70, on dog-fighting charges and seized more
than 60 dogs from his Broussard home.

State Police in June seized 21 suspected fighting dogs in a raid south
of Morgan City and arrested the alleged owner, Irvian Singleton Jr., on
charges of cruelty to animals and dog fighting.

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