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11/09/2026

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190 dogs. Six felony convictions. And this wasn’t his first dogfighting case.

Former NFL player LeShon Johnson has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for operating a large-scale dogfighting and trafficking enterprise in Oklahoma.

Authorities seized 190 pit bull-type dogs from Johnson—the largest number ever recovered from a single individual in a federal dogfighting case.

Johnson had already faced animal-fighting charges years earlier. Yet he returned to the same brutal enterprise, breeding and trafficking dogs from fighting bloodlines.

Federal prosecutors deserve credit for dismantling this operation.

But for a repeat offender tied to 190 fighting dogs, five years isn’t enough.

Dogfighting is calculated cruelty. The punishment should reflect the crime.

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26/08/2026

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Cockfighting just lost big at the ballot box in Oklahoma!

Republican voters in House District 19 overwhelmingly rejected Anthony DeVore, former president of the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, and elected Michael Brittingham by roughly a two-to-one margin.

DeVore spent years advocating to weaken Oklahoma's cockfighting law and was later charged after Animal Wellness Action investigators caught him entering birds in an illegal cockfight.

Even in a rural district once regarded as a stronghold for cockfighting sentiment, voters weren't buying it.

Oklahoma voters sent a message: pro-cockfighting politics lose.

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