Dogfighting sentence: 6 months

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100416/NEWS97/704179979#dogfighting-sentence-6-months

Published Friday April 16, 2010

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Nebraska man arrested as part of a multistate dogfighting investigation has been given six months in prison.

Julio Reyes of Tecumseh had pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge of buying, selling or delivering animals for fights. He also was sentenced earlier this month to three years of supervised release after prison. In addition, he must make restitution of nearly $5,000 to the Nebraska Humane Society, which cared for four pit bulls seized from his home last July.

Reyes' plea came after a deal he made in January with federal prosecutors in Kansas City, Mo.

Reyes was among more than two dozen people accused by U.S. attorneys in several states of cruelties after authorities conducted raids in Missouri, Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Mississippi.