Senior Pentagon Official Ran Vicious Dogfighting Ring — and Executed Losers with Jumper Cables: Feds; Pentagon Official is Arrested for Running Illegal Dogfighting Ring for More Than 20 YEARS
Senior Pentagon official ran vicious dogfighting ring — and executed losers with jumper cables: feds
A senior Defense Department official ran a vicious dogfighting ring — and used jumper cables to execute animals that lost in the savage battles, according to recently released court documents.
Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., 62, the Pentagon’s deputy chief information officer for command, control, and communications, is charged with “promoting and furthering animal fighting venture,” the Maryland US Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
The investigation into Moorefield — who named his dogfighting business “Geehad Kennels,” an apparent homophone for “jihad” — began in 2018 when Anne Arundel County Animal Control discovered the bodies of two dogs in plastic bags that included mail addressed to his Arnold, Md., home, according to a recently unsealed affidavit in the case.
“The distribution and number of recent and healed dog bite wounds (scars) present on both dogs was consistent with organized dogfighting,” an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit. “Based on this information, I believe that Moorefield sponsored each of these dogs in a dogfight.”
Veterinary medical examiners were unable to determine the dogs’ causes of death, but the investigator believes Moorefield killed them himself if they did not die in a fight, according to the report. —>READ MORE HERE
Pentagon official is arrested for running illegal dogfighting ring for more than 20 YEARS:
A Pentagon official has been charged with running a dogfighting ring for more than 20 years that saw animals electrocuted after grim battles held at his home.
Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., a deputy chief information officer in the Department of Defense, hosted gamblers at his property in Arnold, Maryland, according to court documents.
He was arrested Thursday along with his friend Mario Damon Flythe, 49.
During a search of Moorefield’s home, investigators found five pit-bull type dogs in cages, bloodstained walls and furniture and a set of jumper cables that were allegedly used to electrocute surviving dogs after fights.
Police also found an apparatus used for involuntarily inseminating female dogs, veterinary medicine including an anabolic steroid and Moorefield’s iPhone which contained messages consistent with his involvement in dogfighting.
According to the affidavit, Moorefield, Flythe and their associates used encrypted messaging applications to discuss training the animals, exchanging grim videos and laying down bets.
Moorefield used the name ‘Geehad Kennels’ and Flythe used the name ‘Razor Sharp Kennels’ to identify their respective dogfighting operations. —>READ MOEE HERE
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