{"id":373945,"date":"2025-12-28T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373945\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:14:12","slug":"dead-roosters-found-on-crosby-property-after-animal-fighting-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373945\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead roosters found on Crosby property after animal fighting report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff\u2019s deputies found multiple dead roosters on a property in\u00a0Crosby on Saturday night after responding to a report of possible animal fighting, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deputies responded to the 4200 block of Danek Road, where they encountered \u201ca large number of roosters, including dead ones,\u201d Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SheriffEd_HCSO\/status\/2005059762917200309\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">in a social media post on X<\/a> at about 6:30 p.m. Department detectives were on their way to the scene, Gonzalez said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s department did not immediately respond to a request for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials have busted alleged illegal cockfighting rings in recent months, including at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/rooster-fighting-ring-houston-21216122.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">property near Aldine earlier this month<\/a>, where officials said they found about 70 roosters and detained four people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheriff\u2019s deputies found multiple dead roosters on a property in\u00a0Crosby on Saturday night after responding to a report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-373945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}