Undercover with the PSPCA

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Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Jan. 5, 2012

Tonight at 7, the Franklin Institute will host NatGeo WILD series “Philly Undercover” premiere party and screening. The show supplies a behind-the-scenes look at the city combatting animal cruelty. An episode focusing on a Grays Ferry dog fighting ring bust that netted 14 arrests on the 2600 block of Gerritt Street April 14, 2011 will air 9 p.m. Monday.

The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ undercover police team had been investigating Henry Beard, of the Northeast, for a few months. When they learned he was allegedly conducting a dogfight, officers followed him to the Grays Ferry home where they arrested 14 men for cruelty to animals and criminal conspiracy. The organization must race to raid other involved properties and round up the abused dogs before the suspects could be released on bail.

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