Feds break up alleged ‘multi-year dogfighting conspiracy’ in Carver

Crime

Court docket paperwork present investigators seized a number of objects associated to dogfighting, together with pit bull-type canines, from a Carver man’s dwelling.

A Carver man has been arrested in reference to what federal prosecutors describe as a multi-year dogfighting conspiracy involving breeding, coaching, and preventing canines, in addition to unlawful playing and animal cruelty. 

Corey Elliott, 49, was charged with conspiring to take part in an animal preventing enterprise in violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act, in line with a assertion from Massachusetts U.S. Lawyer Leah Foley’s workplace. He was arrested Tuesday morning and appeared in federal court docket in Boston later that day. 

In keeping with charging paperwork, Elliot and a co-conspirator are accused of working a dogfighting operation, at instances utilizing the kennel title “The No Identify Gang.” 

The co-conspirator beforehand pleaded responsible to possessing animals to be used in an animal preventing enterprise and was sentenced to jail. Investigators seized the person’s telephone, which contained a number of movies depicting dogfighting, in line with charging paperwork. 

Prosecutors allege Elliot and the co-conspirator maintained an in depth partnership for years, speaking about dogfighting actions equivalent to arranging fights, discussing outcomes, putting wages, and coordinating the acquisition, sale, and conditioning of canines. 

Messages exchanged between the 2 from March 2018 to June 2023 recommend the conspiracy spanned greater than 5 years, in line with court docket paperwork.

In June 2023, investigators searched the alleged co-conspirator’s dwelling, the place they reported seizing a number of pit bull-type canines and recovered proof per dogfighting, equivalent to veterinary provides and coaching tools, prosecutors mentioned. 

Elliott can also be accused of serving to manage dogfighting occasions, together with some allegedly held at his Carver dwelling, and helping within the building of preventing pits and kennels used to accommodate and situation canines, in line with Foley’s workplace. 

Prosecutors mentioned the pair mentioned particular fights intimately, together with which canines to make use of, when and the place occasions would happen, and put together the animals. 

Elliott is additional accused of partaking in acts of animal cruelty, Foley’s workplace mentioned, equivalent to coaching canines to combat, subjecting them to violent encounters, and killing animals that didn’t meet efficiency requirements. 

In keeping with charging paperwork, Elliott additionally mentioned disposing of lifeless animals and concealing proof. Prosecutors allege Elliott and his co-conspirator used coded language, hid canines from public view, and suggested one another on keep away from regulation enforcement and animal management scrutiny.

In June 2025, investigators searched Elliott’s residence, discovering a number of pit bull-type canines in an out of doors kennel space. A number of of the canines confirmed scarring per dogfighting, in line with charging paperwork. 

Authorities additionally recovered objects related to dogfighting like canine pedigrees, harnesses, leashes, syringes, veterinary medicines, and tools to coach and situation canines, the charging paperwork state. 

The cost of conspiring to take part in an animal preventing enterprise carries a possible sentence of as much as 5 years in jail, three years of supervised launch, and a positive of as much as $250,000, in line with Foley’s workplace.