On Thursday, February 1, investigators with the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit and Criminal Investigations Division, along with members of the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Response (SERT) Team, executed a search warrant at 196 Whitney Lane in Western Iredell County after conducting an investigation into illegal dog fighting.
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Claude Anthony Sanders Jr
Evidence indicates Sanders as a key figure in the training, distributing, and the arranging of dog fights in North Carolina, South Carolina, and other states.
Sheriff Campbell termed the condition of some of the dogs as “deplorable.”
Sanders was placed in the Iredell County Detention Center under secured bond of $200,000.