https://taskandpurpose.com/new...l-dog-fighting-ring/

Police found electrical equipment and jumper cables "consistent with devices used to execute dogs" in the home of a Pentagon administrator.

Frederick D. Moorefield, Jr., who worked as a Deputy Chief Information Officer in the Pentagon, was charged last week with promoting and furthering an animal fighting venture after federal agents raided his Arnold, Maryland home outside of Washington D.C on Sept. 6. Moorefield, 62, called his dogfighting operation “Geehad Kennels,” according to a Department of Justice release. He is accused of possessing, training, or transporting animals for participation in an animal fighting venture along with a second Maryland man, Mario Flythe, 49, of Glen Burnie.

According to the DOJ, the two men used an encrypted messaging application to communicate with individuals throughout the United States to discuss dogfighting, Moorefield operating as Geehad Kennels, and Flythe a Razor Sharp Kennels.

Investigators said the two men “shared messages on how to train dogs for illegal dogfighting, exchanged videos about dogfighting, and arranged and coordinated dogfights. Moorefield and Flythe also discussed betting on dogfighting, discussed dogs that died as a result of dogfighting, and circulated media reports about dogfighters who had been caught by law enforcement.”

Moorefield and others also discussed how to keep their dog fighting secret.

At Moorefield’s home, officials say they recovered twelve dogs along with “veterinary steroids, training schedules, a carpet that appeared to be stained with blood, and a weighted dog vest with a patch reading ‘Geehad Kennels.'”

They also found the electrical equipment and jumper cables, which they said are often used to kill dogs that lose fights.

Pentagon officials did not immediately return an email from Task & Purpose seeking coment on Moorefield’s position.

Moorefield was the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control, and Communications for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, although that position is now listed on the Pentagon’s website as filled by a different person in an “acting” role.

According an online organizational chart, the Pentagon has close to 20 Deputy Chief Information Officers spread around the numerous administrative offices under the Secretary of Defense. A department website describes the role of a DCIO as “a role within some organizations that generally has responsibility for overseeing day-to-day information technology (IT) operations.”

More at link

I'm not usually one to get into the "throw him in a woodchipper" discussions, but I'd be up for letting some dogs tear this guy apart. Abusing animals for entertainment is unforgivable.

Agree, it takes a certain type of person to find things like that entertaining and enjoyable.

Dog fighting rings make me sick.

Moorefield is lucky I am not the one to pass sentence

The dogs have far more honor than this piece of shit.

quote:

They also found the electrical equipment and jumper cables, which they said are often used to kill dogs that lose fights.

This would be the ideal punishment for these pieces of shit. This went on for @20 years!

Yeah. Fuck this guy.

Disgusting POS! Needs to be a way for him to be torn to shreds by some poor animals that are going to be euthanized because of the abuse they have suffered at the hands of his ilk. Then electrocute him with the cables they found.

Sonofabitch this makes my blood boil!!!

This bastard needs the wrath of God visited upon his ass.

This is reading like Michael Vick all over again...

He should be used to train fighters. Just let them beat the shit out of him, recover and beat the shit out of him again and again.

don't read if you want to avoid getting even angrier

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...les-feds/ar-AA1hDVBA


A senior Defense Department official ran a vicious dogfighting ring — and used jumper cables to execute animals that lost in the savage battles, according to recently released court documents.

Pentagon Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control, and Communications Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., 62, is charged with “promoting and furthering animal fighting venture,” the Maryland US Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

The investigation into Moorefield – who named his dogfighting business “Geehad Kennels,” an apparent homophone for “jihad” – began in 2018 when Anne Arundel County Animal Control discovered the bodies of two dogs in plastic bags that included mail addressed to his Arnold, Md., home, according to a recently unsealed affidavit in the case.

“The distribution and number of recent and healed dog bite wounds (scars) present on both dogs was consistent with organized dogfighting,” an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit. “Based on this information, I believe that Moorefield sponsored each of these dogs in a dogfight.”

Veterinary medical examiners were unable to determine the dogs’ causes of death, but the investigator believes Moorefield killed them himself if they did not die in a fight, according to the report.

Investigators discovered Moorefield listed at least 18 dogs on a dogfighting pedigree website dating back to “at least 2002.”U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
“Individuals who sponsor dogs for dogfighting often kill dogs that lose a fight, and as a result of these fights, I believe the dogs were killed during the fight or that Moorefield killed each of them afterwards for performing poorly,” the investigator added.

Moorefield is accused of being involved in dogfighting throughout his career as a civilian employee for the Defense Department, which began in October 2008 when he was hired as director of strategic planning for the Air Force Spectrum Management Office, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Since then, he has held various Pentagon leadership positions before taking on his current role in March 2020. He also served nine years in the Air Force before leaving the service in 1998, according to the profile.

The dogfighting business called “Geehad Kennels” began in 2018.U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Tim Gorman confirmed that the DOD is “aware of the criminal complaint” but declined to say whether Moorefield remained employed in his position.

“We can confirm that the individual is no longer in the workplace, but we cannot comment further on an individual personnel matter,” Gorman said.

In his current position, Moorefield “provides technical expertise, oversight and broad guidance on policy, programmatic, and technical issues” relating to worldwide military communication networks and “advises on efforts to achieve and maintain information dominance for the Department of Defense,” according to the affidavit.

Officials seized a weighted vest of a size that could fit a dog.

Moorefield’s involvement in dogfighting dates back more than two decades

In a Sept. 6 search of his home, the FBI discovered “five pit bull-type dogs” kept in small, thick metal cages in a “windowless room in the unfinished portion of (his) basement,” according to the affidavit.

“The room holding the seized dogs contained items generally used to train dogs for fighting, including weighted collars and heavy metal chains,” the investigator wrote. “Agents observed an apparatus that is used for involuntarily inseminating female dogs.”

Investigators also found “a device consisting of jumper cables attached to an electrical plug … used to electrocute a dog after losing a fight,” the ends of which where covered in dog hair and blood, according to the affidavit.

To support his dogfighting operation, Moorefield is accused of placing his dogs on treadmills, feeding them performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids and specialized dog food and strapping them into weighted vests embroidered with the name “Geehad Kennels,” according to the report.

“In Moorefield’s iCloud account, I found multiple photographs taken in or around March 2023 of what appear to be fighting dogs in cages and/or wearing weighted collars consistent with those used to train fighting dogs,” the agent wrote.

In encrypted messages, Moorefield reportedly conspired with associates to plan dogfights, referring to his female dogs as “hoes.” He also spoke about refereeing other dogfights in Baltimore.

FBI agents also discovered bloodstains from dogfights held at Moorefield’s home, as well as syringes and a medical staple gun meant for closing wounds.

Several of the fights lasted more than an hour, with some of his dogs killing their competitors in the matches. The despicable fights also took place in multiple states, including Maryland and New Jersey, and involved bets of at least $1,500, according to messages investigators discovered on his iPhone.

Moorefield faces charges of participating in, promotion of and conspiracy to participate in an animal fighting venture, as well as interstate travel “in aid of racketeering enterprises,” according to the complaint.

Prosecutors also accused Moorefield’s Glen Burnie, Md.-based barber Mario Damon Flythe, 49, of the same charges in the case after investigators discovered conspiratorial messages on the DOD official’s phone.

During the search, Flythe admitted to participating in dogfighting “in the past” and confirmed that the equipment agents found was used “to exercise his dogs,” according to the affidavit.

The barber and DOD official reportedly met through the dogfighting community.

If convicted, the two would face a maximum sentence of five years in prison, according to prosecutors. They are currently out of custody but remain under supervision.

only 5 years

I simply can't imagine how a person can be so cruel as to treat such a loving animal as a dog like this. To say it makes me angry is an understatement.

Bob

If I had my way this POS would be executed by a pack of hungry dogs

quote:

Originally posted by gearhounds:

quote:

They also found the electrical equipment and jumper cables, which they said are often used to kill dogs that lose fights.

This would be the ideal punishment for these pieces of shit. This went on for @20 years!

This!!!

quote:

If convicted, the two would face a maximum sentence of five years in prison, according to prosecutors.

That's the best the prosecutors can do? If you can't execute them, then let them rot and die in prison.