![]() "Damiane Buehrer and his codefendants participated in a sick and brutal underground activity that, because of its interstate and international nature, is subject to Federal criminal jurisdiction" stated U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney characterized dog fighting as "disgusting," and observed that "the depravity of training animals to fight is difficult to understand, to say the least." ![]() The co-defendants regularly exchanged interstate electronic communications for the purpose of sharing information about training and conditioning dogs for fighting, breeding fighting dogs, contracting for and sponsoring dog fights, collecting forfeited funds when a contracted dog fight resulted in a forfeit, and sharing results of dog fights. Buehrer also possessed medical equipment used to treat dogs that were wounded during such fights, as well as equipment for training the dogs, including treadmills, weighted chains, "break sticks," and a "jenny mill" apparatus that forces dogs to run for extended periods of time to build fighting endurance. Buehrer’s dogs, along with 33 other dogs owned by his co-conspirators, were rescued by Federal and state law-enforcement agencies as part of the investigation. Buehrer was convicted in State court in 2010, under Michigan’s animal-fighting statute.īetween November 14, 2016, and December 7, 2017, as part of the conspiracy, Buehrer-who had just been released from the Michigan Department of Corrections in August 2015 after serving a five-year-sentence for the same activity-acquired and possessed four dogs for the purposes of breeding, training, conditioning, and developing them to fight other dogs for prize money in underground and illegal contests that routinely result in dogs being wounded, maimed, and killed. The remaining co-defendants, including Charles Joseph Miller, Kian Maliak Miller, Charles Deon Davis, Jr., and Jarvis Jason-Roy Askew, have pled guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Birge of the Western District of Michigan made the announcement.īuehrer and four co-defendants were indicted on April 18, 2018, for conspiracy and for unlawfully possessing animals to use in dog fighting, along with equipment to train and condition them for fighting. The Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. ![]() GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Damiane Buehrer, 40, of Jonesville, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday to serve 46 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for participating in a dog-fighting conspiracy between November 2016 and December 2017. Buehrer, A West Michigan Resident, Continued to Participate in Underground Pit Bull Terrier Fighting Even After Serving State Prison Time for Dog-Fighting Offense ![]()
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