{"id":1128601,"date":"2022-05-23T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1128601"},"modified":"2022-05-24T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:34:04","slug":"almost-100-roosters-seized-from-cherokee-county-cockfighting-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1128601","title":{"rendered":"Almost 100 roosters seized from Cherokee County cockfighting ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/05\/police-9-175x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1128602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/05\/police-9-175x117.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/05\/police-9.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Nearly 100 roosters were seized from a Cherokee County cockfighting ring on Saturday night. According to our news partner KETK, deputies responded to reports of suspicious activity on CR 2638, and upon arrival, officials reportedly located evidence indicating that a cockfighting derby had taken place. Approximately 50 people were identified. According to officials, two trucks, nine trailers, and 97 roosters were seized. The case remains under investigation, with arrest warrants pending for landowners and individuals who were allegedly involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Nearly 100 roosters were seized from a Cherokee County cockfighting ring on Saturday night. According to our news partner KETK, deputies responded to reports of suspicious activity on CR 2638, and upon arrival, officials reportedly located evidence indicating that a cockfighting derby had taken place. Approximately 50 people were identified. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1128601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almost 100 roosters seized from Cherokee County cockfighting ring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1128607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/05\/police-9-175x117.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Almost 100 roosters seized from Cherokee County cockfighting ring","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 20:13:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/05\/police-9-175x117.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Almost 100 roosters seized from Cherokee County cockfighting ring","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128648,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128601\/revisions\/1128648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1128607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}