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Cockfighting raid nets 22 arrests in Kensington, police say

Police also found 83 roosters, some of them injured, during the bust.

Police broke up a cockfight and arrested 22 people when they were called to a Kensington street over the weekend.
Police broke up a cockfight and arrested 22 people when they were called to a Kensington street over the weekend.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer

Police said Tuesday they arrested 22 people when they broke up a cockfight at a Kensington home over the weekend.

Authorities earlier reported that they had recovered 83 roosters, some of them injured, in the bust late Friday on the 2100 block of East Ann Street. The animals were turned over to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, police said.

Officers went to the house after receiving calls reporting a cockfight, as well as a person with a gun and a homicide suspect at the location. No weapons were recovered and no homicide suspect was found, police said.

Those arrested ranged in age from 22 to 63 and included three women. All but one man, who was from Penns Grove, N.J., are Philadelphia residents, police said.

All were charged with criminal conspiracy and cruelty to animals.