Lombard Men Face Charges After Dogfighting Party
Defense attorney says it was not "planned"
Saturday, Jun 20, 2009 | Updated 2:45 PM CDT
Two Lombard men will be in court Monday after police say they found them cheering on a dog fight at a party.
A noisy, Friday night dog fight came to an end when Lombard police showed up and found two bloody pit bulls battling each other and a crowd cheering on the dogs.
“They were making no attempt to separate them,’’ Lombard Deputy Chief Dane Cuny said of the owners. “They were saying ‘get ’em, sic ’em.’ They were egging them on.”
The dogs’ owners, Brian Moll, 22, and Robert Kollman, 21, who both live in Lombard, will be arraigned Monday on charges of felony dogfighting at the May 23 party. It was the first such offense filed in DuPage County as far as authorities could remember.
The dogs — Rampage, allegedly owned by Kollman, and Ace, allegedly owned by Moll — were bloody from bite wounds when police arrived at Kollman’s house about 2:45 a.m. and were taken to a veterinarian, Cuny said.
“Officers had to Taser the dogs to stop them from fighting,” Cuny said.
Kollman’s attorney said it was "not a promoted or planned dogfight."
A prosecutor said the dogs are being cared for at the DuPage County Animal Control department.
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