In Hawaii, engaging in, promoting, or being a spectator at a chicken fight is an illegal activity. State statutes address this practice under broader animal cruelty laws, making it a criminal offense. Each chicken fight event was made up of several individual chicken fights, where hundreds of individuals participated, watched and bet on the fights.
In 2010, one Hawaii legislative committee even voted to recognize chicken fighting as a cultural activity. Moore said the topic is in a political no. Waianae Man Sentenced to 14 Years for Methamphetamine Distribution and Operating Illegal Chicken Fights News Release for U.S.
Attorney's Office, District of Hawaii, Friday, April 11, 2025 HONOLULU - Acting United States Attorney Kenneth M. Sorenson announced that Edward Caspino, 47, of Waianae, was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge J.
Michael Seabright to 168 months of. Each chicken fight event involved numerous individual chicken fights, during which hundreds of spectators and participants bet on the outcome of the fights. Caspino is the first to be sentenced among the six illegal gambling business conspirators.
A man convicted of leading an illegal cockfighting operation in West Oahu will now face 14 years in federal prison. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Suspected Waianae chicken fight organizers pled not guilty in federal court Wednesday. The group allegedly hosted multiple large-scale chicken fights, called "derbies.
In April 2022, police arrested a 57-year-old promoter at a chicken fight in Honokaa, with about 150 people attending, on 23 counts of animal cruelty and promotion of gambling, the Hawaii Tribune. One national animal rights organization says Hawaii is among the weakest states for cockfighting laws.
