Harris County Constable Precinct 1's Animal Cruelty Unit is investigating a northeast Houston property that may have been used to raise, train and sell roosters for cockfighting.
Authorities have released a video of the property and want information about it or the people involved, Click2Houston reported. Constable Alan Rosen framed the request as unfinished business: "This is an ongoing matter and we would appreciate any tips from the public."
A video, two phone lines
The unit's number is 832-927-7337. Tips can also go to the Houston SPCA at 713-869-7722, and callers may remain anonymous.
Rosen said he hopes people call authorities whenever animals are mistreated. He was not delicate about the practice itself, calling cockfighting "brutal, cruel and illegal."
Illegal, and often a gambling business
The constable's office put the legal line in one sentence: "Cockfighting is illegal and often involves gambling." On the animals, the office said birds "can suffer serious injuries or die."
That is the office's account of how these operations work, not a finding that fights occurred at this property. Investigators have described a possible use — raising, training and selling birds for cockfighting — and stopped there in what has been released.
Northeast Houston has seen this before
The same part of the county already has a grim recent record, in separate cases.
In February 2024, deputies seized 111 roosters from a northeast Houston property, Houston Public Media reported. At least eight were dead, and several others were severely injured.
That December, officers executing a search warrant recovered 56 roosters, chickens and chicks from a northeast Houston residence, according to Click2Houston.
A December 2025 report described another Houston-area ring, this one found by the Harris County Sheriff's Office: more than 70 animals, some of them dead, and four people detained, Houston Public Media reported. The discovery, the report said, came on a Sunday night.
Those cases arrived with birds already counted. This one is still a public ask: if the property in the video looks familiar, the constable's office wants the call.
