Cops nab six for cockfighting at Sri Aman oil palm plantation

KUCHING (Aug 19): Police arrested six men, three of whom were senior citizens, during an Ops Dadu raid for illegal cockfighting in Sri Aman yesterday.

Sri Aman police chief DSP Mathew Manggie said the arrests were made by a Criminal Investigation Department team at an oil palm plantation, Jalan Ulu Skrang around 3.30pm.

“Upon realising the presence of the police, a group of men at the cockfighting ring fled but six of them were successfully apprehended,” he said in a statement.

The suspects were aged between 25 and 69.

He said the raiding team seized three live roosters, one dead rooster, weighing scales, a betting record board, a plastic table, a plastic chair, and two taji (spurs) believed to be used for cockfighting.

Mathew added the case is being investigated under Section 73(1)(g) of the Veterinary Public Health Ordinance 1999.