Authorities in northwest Ohio say they've broken up a cockfighting ring.
Fulton County authorities said they cited 52 people and seized 72 live roosters near the village of Delta on Sunday. That's west of Toledo.
Deputies who responded to a report of gunshots fired found people running away from a barn where the roosters were found. They also found $1,500 in cash.
The misdemeanor citations included animal-fighting or being a spectator. Deputies said the people at the barn were from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.
The Humane Society of the United States says cockfighting is a centuries-old sport in which two or more specially bred birds are placed in an enclosed pit to fight as spectators wager.