This has happened here before. In 1977 or 1978, the sheriff's office busted a cock fighting ring on Varain Road. There were about 50 arrests.

No worse than a cat fight at Miners...

I can guarantee, you will not get any votes from our district with that remark. We need someone who will stand up for our area and not be the joke of it. There is constant traffic, litter and obnoxious music all day and night. The neighbors here suspected something but because this family is behind locked gates even the sheriff couldn't get through. THis time they did. THis is sick animal cruelty and the people behind this, watching and gambling a slow, vicious, bloody, death for sport are extremely sick humans. This has nothing to do with hunting for hunger,or what animals you slaughter to feed your family. This type of sport IS NOT ACCEPTABLE HERE!!! ANIMAL CRUELTY IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. GET it OUT OF THIS COUNTY.

I'm a resident on Heritage Lane. You guys can make all the jokes you want. But when you live in a quiet area and most of the neighbors are very nice people who care about their property as we do, its disturbing to have constant traffic zooming in and out past our property all hours of the day and night because of these valley people. We know for a fact that the owner of the property where these cock fights were being held does not live on the property. He lives in brand new home in Merced because his wife didn't want to live in the country. He bought the old Falany ranch. This man and his family are originally from the Bay Area and sold his Mexican restaurant back some 4yrs ago and then purchased this ranch. He admitted knew NOTHING about horses but was going to learn so he could make more money in the show circuit and horse racing. So he purchased all types of livestock and now he has numerous race horses and Andalusions. While he was setting up his place for what we all thought was a horse ranch, he brought up all his compadres, weekend after weekend for months and years. They've all come to get comfortable enough to disturb our country peacefulness. They tear up our road by driving too fast even when hauling a horse trailer. They have no respect for the neighbors here. They play their kind of music from very early in the morning (sometimes as early as 9am) until very late at night. They throw trash out of their cars along Heritage Ln and think nothing of it. Quite frankly, and I think I'm able to speak on behalf of my neighbors, we'd like to see them all leave so we can have our clean and peaceful country life back. If this was on your road, I'm sure you wouldn't be joking about it then.