Columbia, SC – Attorney General Henry McMaster was joined by Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, Lexington County Sheriff Jimmy Metts, Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster, and a number of law enforcement officers at Lamar Advertising in Columbia to announce an important new expansion of the partnership in the state’s battle against animal fighting.
In October 2007, McMaster and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) announced a new effort to reward those who report animal fighting in their communities: http://www.scattorneygeneral.org/newsroom/pdf/dogfighting_reward.pdf. Since that time, HSUS has offered a reward as high as $5,000 for anyone giving information that leads to an arrest and conviction in an animal fighting case.