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Stephen Davis and Garry Manning (not their real names) looked at each other as they sat behind their desks. Their boss, a lieutenant in the Texas Department of Public Safety, had just walked in and told the men something interesting. A person involved in illegal dogfighting was ready to spill the beans. Did Davis and Manning want to listen to what he had to say? The officers looked at each other. They were veteran undercover agents. They had posed as drug dealers, members of a motorcycle gang, gun smugglers, and white supremacists . Dogfighting? “We didn’t want to mess with dogfighting,” Manning later told Texas Monthly magazine. “We just figured it was…something for the local animal-control officers.” It wasn’t.

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