{"id":272280,"date":"2026-05-15T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:22:24","slug":"bodycam-shows-bust-of-sw-miami-dade-cockfighting-ring-that-ended-in-42-arrests-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272280\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodycam shows bust of SW Miami-Dade cockfighting ring that ended in 42 arrests \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

New police body camera videos show the moments an alleged cockfighting ring was busted<\/a> in southwest Miami-Dade last year, leading to the arrest of dozens of suspects.<\/p>\n

The videos, obtained by NBC6 on Thursday, show Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies raiding the property in the 14200 block of Southwest 192nd Avenue on May 16, 2025.<\/p>\n

One video shows a pair of suspects in handcuffs as their pants pockets are searched, and another shows multiple men sitting on the side of a dirt road in handcuffs as a rooster is heard crowing in the background.<\/p>\n

A third video shows deputies with weapons drawn taking a man into custody in a field.<\/p>\n

The raid led to the arrest of 42 people on charges of fighting or baiting animals and resisting arrest without violence, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Arrest reports said deputies had responded to the property after someone reported a fight involving “knives and machetes.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Deputies said the suspects started to flee the scene on foot and in their vehicles.<\/p>\n

When one suspect was stopped by deputies, they were found with rooster spurs, a natural bony structure on their legs, which are associated with cockfighting.<\/p>\n

Multiple roosters were roaming the property and 72 birds were eventually found, authorities said. In addition, $39,000 in cash was seized, the reports said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New police body camera videos show the moments an alleged cockfighting ring was busted in southwest Miami-Dade last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1009,123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-272280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}