Cockfighting Outfits Evade the Law, and Continue to Prosper.

One by one, Domanick Munoz pulled bloody and battered rooster bodies out of a pile of feathers, claws and beaks. The birds that were still gasping for life he put out of their misery, plunging a syringe of drugs into their gouged and lacerated bellies. Animal-cruelty officers with Dallas Animal Services took those that were already dead and gingerly placed them into large, black plastic garbage bags. Nearby, Sgt. Alfred Nunez of the Dallas police surveyed abandoned cars, empty beer bottles, boxes of razor blades, syringes, liquor bottles, marijuana and dozens of cages and makeshift coops with roosters inside. ''This is one huge mess,'' he said over the cacophony of crowing birds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]