Federal officers from more than one businesses did not act on overwhelming proof that horses have been electroshocked and injected with boulevard medicine–together with cocaine and methamphetamine–at unsanctioned races, the place unlawful playing and different violations are rampant, The Washington Submit printed lately. PETA spoke back to the feds’ abandonment via in quest of native prosecutions and the enactment of rules to provide some coverage for horses.
PETA had introduced the movies and syringes gathered all the way through our undercover investigation into Georgia “bush tracks” to the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA), which then labored with the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Management (DEA), and the U.S. Division of Place of origin Safety (DHS) on making plans a raid. Alternatively, the “three-letter businesses” balked at busting the observe, advised the USDA to face down, and deserted the investigation, leaving enforcement efforts to the native sheriff.
PETA then met with Lamar County Sheriff’s Workplace investigators and native prosecutors, persuading them to fee six jockeys with cruelty to animals and a bookie with prison industrial playing. Alternatively, doping fees couldn’t be pursued, because the USDA had destroyed all of the syringes we had gathered.
In the meantime, convicted felon Arthur “Brutz” English IV—proprietor of the Rancho El Centenario observe in Milner, Georgia—has but to be charged and continues to perform races at which horses are abused and doped and die in grotesque breakdowns. Throughout the investigation into his operation, PETA’s undercover investigators gathered dozens of used syringes from the racetrack. English lately taunted law-enforcement officers via developing promotional pens formed like syringes and published with the observe’s brand.
The Washington Submit wrote, “Jonathan Adams, district legal professional for Lamar and two different counties, mentioned there used to be little extra they might do with out federal help or a transformation in Georgia legislation to make unregulated racing a criminal offense. ‘My arms are tied,’ Adams mentioned. ‘I implore our politicians to make those bush tracks unlawful or on the very least mandate their legislation.’”
Please signal PETA’s petition urging Gov. Brian Kemp to take speedy motion to close down unregulated tracks in Georgia in order that not more horses can be injected with boulevard medicine, be electroshocked, or die in grotesque breakdowns.