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By TIA LYONS

News-Times Staff

An El Dorado man was fined and sentenced to a year in jail Friday on charges that included animal cruelty in a dog fighting incident that El Dorado police described as “a bloody mayhem.”

Roderick J. Johnson, 35, was arrested last Thursday after claiming responsibility for five pit bulldogs at 1313 N. Martin Luther King. Johnson was charged on a warrant for failure to appear, a felony offense, and misdemeanor offenses of animal cruelty and obstruction of governmental operations.

He appeared in Union County District ...