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Monday, May 21, 2007
Officials meet to review Vick evidence
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The prosecuting attorney, law enforcement officials and a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture met in Surry County, Va., today to review evidence in the dogfighting investigation at a property owned by Falcons quarterback Michael Vick.
The only comment coming out of the two-hour session was that the investigation was ongoing. If charges are brought, they are not expected to be brought right away and they might not be brought against Vick.
Prosecutor Gerald Poindexter has warned that even though dogfighting appears to have occurred in the two-story house on the property, at least six people could be involved and that Vick, who is only a periodic visitor to the property, might not be a target of the investigation.
The AJC also obtained a list of items seized by police in the search of the property, where 66 dogs, mainly pit bulls, were found and removed from the property.
Among the things taken as evidence were three envelopes addressed to “M. Vick” and a three-ring binder holding “contracts” or copies of contracts. There is no indication if anything was in the envelopes or what the content was inside the binder but according to the search warrant, the only written literature police could seize had to be related to dogfighting.
Meanwhile, Vick has been making the needed “changes” that he has needed to make, according to his high school coach Tommy Reamon. Those changes have not been specified, but Reamon said Vick is “hurting” and trying his best to weather the negative attention this investigation has brought.
