BLUE RIDGE - A Northeast Georgia man is facing a felony dogfighting charge, and authorities say he was operating an influential dogfighting ring.<br />
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Authorities raided Albert Glenn White's kennel in Blue Ridge on Thursday and say they found 22 pit bulls, three dogfighting pits and ``suspected dogfighting paraphernalia.'' <br />
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Laura Bevan, director of the U.S. Humane Society's Southeast regional office, says the pit bulls were thin and have scars consistent with dogfighting. <br />
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Blue Ridge is about 70 miles north of Atlanta, near the North Carolina border. <br />
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It was the site of a cockfighting ring that drew up to 300 people every Saturday night until it was shut down by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in 2005. <br />
