Prosecutors charged the 60-year-old man with first-degree assault animal cruelty in the incident that occurred last year.

As the fight escalated, two of the men involved even urinated on his neighbor’s yard in retaliation for the dog’s actions, video shows.

Henrique Durant Jr., 46, was arrested in 2023 after investigators seized 15 dogs, most of them pit bull terriers, from his home in Gastonia. Some of the pit bulls had severe injuries and had not been seen by a veterinarian, according to prosecutors.

Videos and other materials found on the cell phone of a co-defendant linked Young to "the animal fighting venture."

A downtown Tacoma dog training center is now wrapped up in a felony case after prosecutors say security video caught a trainer goading two dogs into a fight on site last fall. The Nov. 11, 2025 incident at the PacWestK9 facility left a tan Doberman named Thanos and a Labrador mix named Nino with puncture wounds,

A Carver man was arrested Tuesday and charged in connection with a local dogfighting ring that involved the breeding, training, and fighting of dogs for sport and profit at his home over several