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Exeter man faces 76 charges in dog fighting, gambling operation
EXETER The man charged with running an illegal pit bull fighting ring behind his plush Exeter house was eyed by authorities in New Hampshire several years ago as a player in a dog-fighting ring that was under investigation in that state, a source familiar with the case said this week. The source said that when William Dean of 1 Tamarind Ln, learned the ring was being investigated, he moved out of the area and eventually ended up in the upscale Exeter neighborhood, where he was arrested Tuesday morning. Dean was arraigned in Exeter District Court on Wednesday morning, where he was charged with 37 counts of cruelty to animals, 37 counts of exhibition of fighting animals, criminal threatening and possession of narcotic drugs. Exeter District Court Judge Laurence Cullen set Dean bail at $125,000 cash and $125,000 personal recognizance. Dean's attorney Gerry Lapro said Dean was planning to post bail Wednesday afternoon. However, he still remained in jail Thursday afternoon.
Police believe they put a dent in a major illegal dog-fighting ring with the arrest and seizure of the dogs this week. "I believe it was a high-level professional dog-fighting operation with this individual being the leader of the pack, " Exeter Police Chief Richard Mansfield said. Police seized 37 dogs, including eight puppies, from a Quonset hut behind Dean house during a raid Tuesday morning. Police were shocked by the battle scars some of the dogs had, including one missing a tongue and another with two broken legs that never received veterinary attention. "I just took a walk through the Quonset hut, " Mansfield said at the scene, adding the dogs were friendly and wagging their tails. "It breaks your heart to see these dogs because they're on death row."
Initially, they believed there were 50 dogs, but later determined there were fewer. They believe Dean ran a professional pit bull-fighting business out of a two-floor gray garage adjacent to a Quonset hut that housed the dogs.in the upstairs of the garage, police found a fighting arena, dog treadmill, a scale and steroids. The entire area, including the stairs up to the arena, was covered in blood. Police said the going rate for betting on a dog fight runs from $5,000 to $100,000.
While searching Dean's home, police found $300,000 in cash in his bedroom, banded together in $5,000 bundles, Mansfield said. Police in Exeter have received many calls already from people who want to adopt or help the dogs. At this time, they are working with animal experts in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to determine if the dogs will be able to be adopted out. Mansfield said the advice he had received so far from the animal welfare agencies is that the dogs will not be able to go into homes. "At times, they will fight to the death; it's a barbaric sport, " Mansfield said. "Once you train these dogs for fighting, you can't put them in with a family and that's the sad thing about it."
However, many members of pit bull rescue leagues across the country e-mailed Seacoast Newspapers on Wednesday with success stories of dogs that had been placed in homes following removal from homes where they were trained to fight. The only survivors may be eight puppies, who are less than a week old, and were found inside with their mother. But Mansfield said he has been advised by the animal rescue workers that the puppies are from a strong fighting bloodline and may not be able to be saved. Lapro said his client is innocent and questioned the merits of the police case against Dean. Lapro said there is no evidence that dog fights had actually been held on the property. "This is not unusual for an individual to house this many pit bulls, " Lapro said. He insisted his client is not a danger to the community and would not flee from the area if he posts bail. He pointed out that Dean wife is a teacher in the Exeter Regional School District.
Mansfield said he feared Dean is a flight risk because of the amount of cash
they found in his house and his previous criminal record. Deanwas arrested in 2000 for solicitation of a prostitute and convicted in 1991 of assault with a dangerous weapon. Police believe he still may have a large amount of money at his disposal, pointing out that he paid for more than $100,000 of landscaping to his home in cash. Police are working to identify the people who bet on the illegal dog fights in Exeter, Lapro said, adding they would face charges of gambling. "This type of activity brings in people with criminal backgrounds, " the chief said. The break in the case Exeter Police had been investigating Dean since shortly after he moved into the upscale neighborhood three years ago, with seven pit bulls.
They finally received the break they needed after an exchange that took place on Jan. 9 between Dean and a man he fired from his job offeeding and caring for the dogs. Details of how police were able to arrest Dean and obtain a search warrant for his house and property were revealed during the arraignment. Mansfield said the man who was fired came forward to police last week after he lost his job. The man told police he saw almost 50 dogs, many with scars and injuries, in the Quonset hut in the woods behind Dean's house. The former employee was ordered to leave the property before 11 A.M. Every day, but one day was late. He allegedly witnessed steroids, hypodermic needles and pills being brought to the dogs.
Dean allegedly threatened the employee's girlfriend, telling her if she told anyone what she had seen on the property, "something could happen to (her) daughter, " a criminal complaint reads. Based on that information, police were able to obtain a warrant to search the house and property. Many complaints When Dean moved to the plush neighborhood on 1 Tamarind Ln, neighbors immediately began to complaint about the noise from the barking dogs behind his house. The dogs were initially chained to 50-gallon barrels and left outside all the time, said one neighbor who asked not to be identified.
The raid on Dean's home and dogs is the latest piece in a puzzle his neighbors have been trying to solve since he moved in. Just last weekend, a group of neighbors was talking and making informal bets about what type of illegal business at which they suspect he makes his living, said a neighbor who asked not to be named. No one in the neighborhood socialized with Dean, who told them he worked for Harvard University, the neighbor said. However, they suspected he didn't work, because he was always home riding motorcycles or ATVs.
Dean told police he was a nuclear engineer, Lapro said, although they have no proof of his career. Lapro said Wednesday that Dean worked as a computer systems analyst at Harvard, but has been out on medical leave since November owing to a back injury. After police took Dean to court based on complaints from neighbors about the noise from the dogs about 18 months ago, a judge ordered that some type of building be constructed, Mansfield said. That's when Dean built the Quonset hut. The hut, which is accessed by a road next to the large tan Cape-style home, has a large parking area and a two-floor garage adjacent to it. One neighbor said he often saw expensive cars such as Corvettes and Mercedes pulling into Dean's driveway, with drivers who did not look like they could afford the cars.
The raid on Dean's home occurred Tuesday morning just after 11:30 A.M. And involved participation from police in Exeter, Kingston, Plaistow and State Police, as well as animal welfare workers from across New Hampshire and Massachusetts. For several hours before the actual raid, two local police officers clad in winter camouflage and armed with rifles hid in the woods behind the hut. They were in radio contact with Mansfield and the other authorities about the activity around the house. "It was a major effort to get it all put together, " Mansfield said. Dean was called to the exeter Police station Tuesday morning, where he was arrested. He was arrested before the raid because police were concerned he might have access to weapons or try to retaliate during the raid.
Those helping with the rescue were divided into three teams, two law enforcement teams and one animal rescue worker team. Few were home in the neighborhood as an orderly chain of police cars pulled into the driveway of Dean's home with burgundy shutters and an elaborate stone wall. The police in the first team gathered outside the front door and Mansfield knocked. A woman, who was later identified as the housekeeper, answered the door. She left shortly after police arrived toting her vacuum cleaner and cleaning supplies. The second team of policei mmediately went to the hut where the dogs were kept. The third team in a contingent of about a dozen animal rescue vans and trucks arrived within 10 minutes of the initial
police arrival.
Rescue workers assessed the condition of each dog they found, taking pictures and documenting the injuries. Many dogs had visible scars on the body, pieces oftheir ears ripped off and missing toes. Despite the conditions, the animal control officers brought in to help remove the animals did not use tranquilizers or restraints to move the animals. Most were wagging their tails at the rescuers and went willingly in to crates and vans, Mansfield said. While the majority of the dogs were held in cages inside the Quonset hut, seven were chained outside to dog houses. Some of the dogs had been "debarked" or had their vocal cords removed, Mansfield said. Neighbors believe that
the debarking is why they never suspected the total number of dogs Dean owned. Despite their dog houses, the outside dogs were visibly shaking from cold.
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