OK - Ex-New York Giants running back LeShon Johnson charged with running massive dog fighting operation involving 190 dogs - March 26, 2025

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Ex-Giants running back LeShon Johnson allegedly ran massive dog-fighting operation

Ex-Giants running back LeShon Johnson is facing federal charges after authorities allege he ran a massive dog-fighting operation that led to what the U.S. Department of Justice believes was the lar…

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Ex-Giants running back LeShon Johnson is facing federal charges after authorities allege he ran a massive dog-fighting operation that led to what the U.S. Department of Justice believes was the largest seizure of dogs ever in a federal case of this kind

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Court documents allege that Johnson, who played five years in the NFL in the 1990s, had been running at least two dog-fighting operations in two Oklahoma towns a little more than 20 miles apart through an operation called “Mal Kant Kennels.”
Ex-Giants running back LeShon Johnson allegedly ran massive dog-fighting operation

According to court documents, Johnson ran a dog fighting operation known as “Mal Kant Kennels” in both Broken Arrow and Haskell, Oklahoma. He previously ran “Krazyside Kennels” also out of Oklahoma, which led to his guilty plea on state animal fighting charges in 2004.
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Johnson, 54, faces up to five years in prison for each of the 21 counts. These charges come 21 years after he pleaded guilty to state animal fighting charges.
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It was shortly after that when he dealt with his first legal issues. In 2004, he pled guilty to state dogfighting charges and received a five-year deferred sentence. That case also was in Oklahoma.
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Not his first rodeo. Maybe had he not received a deferred sentence back in 2004 he would have changed his ways. But alas, he simply upped the ante.