A previous leading Division of Protection interactions authorities was punished to 18 months in government jail for his duty in a D.C.-area dogfighting ring.
Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., 64, was very first connected to the dogfighting ring referred to as “[D.C. Maryland and Virginia] Board” in 2018, when police officers from the Anne Arundel Region, Maryland, pet control replied to a record of 2 dead pet dogs in plastic bags at his home. The police officers located the pet dogs with markings regular with dogfighting.
Both pet dogs were simply the idea of the iceberg, according to detectives.
Moorefield, that acted as the replacement principal details policeman for command, control and procedures for the Workplace of the Assistant of Protection, run under the kennel name “Geehad Kennels” and utilized his home to maintain and educate pet dogs to eliminate in the DMV Board’s fierce suits.
The Justice Division claims countless various other participants of the DMV Board have actually been punished to jail for their duties in the dogfighting ring.
Moorefield begged guilty in September to government fees of conspiracy theory to take part in animal battling and interstate traveling in help of racketeering. He was still offering in his duty at the Protection Division when he was billed.
Detectives located messages on Moorefield’s phone and various other tools that reveal the previous armed forces authorities putting wagers on pet dogs with various other participants of the board, the methods to execute the dogfighting ring and trying to find out that the “snitch” remained in the ring, since various other participants of the “DMV Board” had actually been prosecuted.
He additionally interacted regarding his pet dogs combating others pet dogs.
In Between January 2019 and October 2023, Moorefield sent out and got CashApp purchases with deceptive names, according to the Justice Division. In 2022, Moorefield got a $1,000 deal identified as a “housewarming present” from a well-known dogfighter.
When government representatives looked Moorefield’s home in September of 2023, they located 5 pit-bull kind pet dogs in huge steel cages in a windowless area in his cellar, according to DOJ.
Representatives additionally located a number of containers of pet medicine, pet food, and healthy protein powder in the exact same area, along with a jumper-cable tool Moorefield utilized to eliminate a pet dog.
Police additionally took a huge folded-up, blood-stained item of carpeting from a shed which the Justice Division claims was utilized the as the flooring of a field to phase examinations on the pet’s capacity to eliminate.
