A raid on Frederick Douglass Moorefield, Jr., a Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control, and Communications, found instruments used to torture and kill dogs
official has been charged by federal authorities with “promoting and furthering” an illegal dog fighting ring in Maryland.
Frederick Douglass Moorefield, Jr., a Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control, and Communications, for Office of the Secretary of Defense, and a co-defendant, Mario Damon Flythe, were indicted on Monday by the Maryland District Attorney’s office. , Moorefield and Flythe “used the encrypted messaging application [Telegram] to discuss how to train dogs for illegal dogfighting, exchanged videos about dogfighting, and arranged and coordinated dogfights.
During a search of Moorefield’s Maryland residence, authorities “seized a device consisting of an electrical plug and jumper cables, which the affidavit alleges is consistent with devices used to execute dogs that lose dogfights.” Between the residences of the two men, they also recovered twelve dogs, “veterinary steroids, training schedules, a carpet that appeared to be stained with blood, and a weighted dog vest with a patch reading ‘Geehad Kennels.
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