LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Police have arrested a man they said was running a longtime dog fighting ring in Louisville and charged him with several counts of animal cruelty.
Kareem Garner was arrested after an anonymous tip to the Louisville Metro Police Department about a “full-blown” dog fighting ring.
Police said the “very detailed” tip led investigators to serve a search warrant at Garner’s home on Lillian Avenue, in the Taylor Berry neighborhood, earlier this month where they found four “pit-bull type” dogs in “terrible condition.” The dogs were living in kennels covered in feces or trapped in leg-high mud, and several have heartworms.
According to court documents, police found supplements and medications, weighted collars, scales, carpet mills, dog fighting paperwork, spring poles and other evidence. Investigators said the evidence shows Garner was “involved in the owning, possessing, keeping, training, selling or otherwise transferring a dog for the purpose of fighting.”
LMPD investigators said they believe Garner’s “stature in the dog fighting world is considered ‘prolific'” and that he is “apparently well known in the region for dog fighting.”
Garner was arrested and charged with four counts of dog fighting, which are felonies, and four counts of second degree cruelty to animals, which are misdemeanors. He’s scheduled to appear in court on July 12.
LMPD said the dogs are now in the hands of Louisville Metro Animal Services where they are receiving treatment.
The police department’s Animal Cruelty Enforcement Unit and Louisville Metro Animal Control assisted in the investigation.
A mugshot of Garner was not immediately available.
This story may be updated.
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