{"id":399631,"date":"2026-09-14T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399631\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:40:07","slug":"roosters-seized-in-lee-county-cockfighting-cases-euthanized-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399631\/","title":{"rendered":"Roosters seized in Lee County cockfighting cases euthanized | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County says the roosters removed from two suspected cockfighting operations last month were humanely euthanized because of their poor condition.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/lee-county-deputies-dismantle-2-suspected-cockfighting-operations-remove-136-birds\/article_483b58fc-eead-471f-b447-ca3e8dedef0f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee County deputies dismantle 2 suspected cockfighting operations, remove 136 birds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"frame 3.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leegov.com\/communications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Betsy Clayton, communications director for Lee County,<\/a> said the county took custody of 136 birds from the two properties on Aug. 21 and Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<p>The birds were seized during separate Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigations in Buckingham and Lehigh Acres that resulted in two arrests on animal cruelty charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee County says the roosters removed from two suspected cockfighting operations last month were humanely euthanized because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1684,159055,1686,209,211,210,24936,159053,159054,265,159056,356,2094,16297,29804],"class_list":["post-399631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-animals","tag-betsy-clayton","tag-birds","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-chickens","tag-cockfight","tag-communications-director","tag-crime","tag-euthanize","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-sheriffs-office","tag-livestock","tag-rooster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399631","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=399631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}