Finding Mexican bimbos at cockfights is no surprise, but finding this particular Bimbo at a cockfight was
KAUFMAN, Texas––Why was Bimbo, the globally known bread-selling bear, at a July 5, 2025 cockfight near Kaufman, Texas?
Droning five cockfights in three states between June 28, 2025 and July 5, 2025, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] furnished evidence to law enforcement contributing to multiple arrests at multiple locations.
The most damning evidence of all, however, may be the drone video Showing Animals Respect & Kindness collected at the fifth and last site.
(From SHARK video.)
Cockfight right out in the open
Behind 5140 U.S. 175 Frontage Road, just west of Kaufman, at GPS coordinates 32.59580892053937, -96.36438171913191, a cockfighting derby was held on July 5, 2025 right out in the open, concealed only by tree canopy.
Using state-of-the-art drone cameras, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness caught participants in the act of pitting roosters against each other.
“We actually saw some cockfighting,” founder Steve Hindi told ANIMALS 24-7.
The Town of Kaufman police were called, Hindi said, “but they didn’t get there in time.”
“We got license plates”
While waiting for the police to arrive, the Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drones collected the license plate numbers of attendees.
“We got license plates,” Hindi affirmed, including the license plate number, 977-679J, on a Bimbo bread trailer parked at the scene behind a white pickup truck.
Was the Bimbo’s trailer there to sell bread or snacks? Or was it “borrowed” by a Bimbo employee to haul gamefowl to the cockpit?
“The trailer was being used to hold roosters that were fought,” SHARK alleged in a July 7, 2025 email to supporters. “Imagine that––a trailer intended for transporting human food was housing animals. We hope Bimbo executives will realize both the threat to human health, and the public relations nightmare that this poses, and will find and fire those involved.”
The trailer appears to be associated with Bimbo Bakeries-Sara Lee USA, located about 20 miles northwest at 3055 Discovery Boulevard in Rockwall, Texas.
“Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee”
Bimbo Bakeries, founded in Mexico in 1945, is now the world’s biggest baking company. Advertising that the company philosophy is to “build a sustainable, highly productive, and deeply humane company,” Grupo Bimbo boasts a presence in more than 33 nations, located in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, with a combined annual sales volume of $15 billion.
Among the more than 100 Bimbo brands familiar in the U.S. are Sara Lee, Entenmann’s, Brownberry, Thomas, Lender’s Bagels, Bay’s English Muffins, The Cheesecake Factory, and The Rustik Oven.
Mexican involvement in cockfighting is nothing new. Deportations of Mexican illegal immigrants caught at cockfights have rapidly increased in recent months.
Bimbo involvement in cockfighting, however, has not previously been discovered.
Kaufman cops failed to bust any Bimbos
Exactly how the Bimbo’s trailer came to be at the Kaufman cockfight might have been discovered, especially since the Bimbo company reportedly has GPS tracking on all company vehicles, if the cops had arrived in time to impound the many gamefowl and vehicles on the premises while arresting participants.
“Unfortunately,” said Hindi, “the Kaufman Police failed to stop the cockfight in the town of Kaufman. If Animal Control also failed to help the other animals on the property, Kaufman, Texas is going to become known for all the wrong reasons.”
Responding to tips from the public, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness investigated what will be recalled as the “Bimbo” cockfight after droning cockfighting derbies at four other locations.
Tennessee sheriff “refused to do a damned thing”
At Lewisburg, Tennessee on June 28, 2025, “The Marshall County sheriff refused to do a damned thing,” Hindi told ANIMALS 24-7.
The sheriff’s office “did send an officer out, but he did nothing,” Hindi said. “He left and decided to pass it off to a detective. A detective who was not on duty for the rest of the weekend, allowing the criminal activity to continue.”
Later on June 28, 2025, the Lincoln County, Kentucky sheriff’s department “got a warrant and went in” at a cockfighting derby Showing Animals Respect & Kindness found in progress near Stanford, Kentucky, “but we don’t know what happened,” Hindi said, because during the next week the sheriff’s department released no further information.
Fourth of July fireworks
Fourth of July fireworks came after Showing Animals Respect & Kindness droned and exposed two other cockfight sites, in Titus County and Kaufman County, Texas,” not to be confused with the “Bimbo” cockfight location within the town of Kaufman, Hindi told ANIMALS 24-7.
“The sheriffs of both counties got the job done, executing search warrants and making arrests,” Hindi said.
Picked up Animal Wellness Action president Wayne Pacelle, “Thanks to undercover footage from Animal Wellness Action and SHARK, the Titus County Sheriff’s Office arrested Timothy Thompson,” of Mount Pleasant, Texas, whom Pacelle identified as “a major player in the brutal world of cockfighting.
“Investigators captured it all”
“On Independence Day,” Pacelle recounted, “Thompson hosted a massive illegal derby. Investigators captured it all: drones flying overhead, in-pit footage, betting slips, even fighting rosters.
“This wasn’t Thompson’s first time,” Pacelle continued. “He has hosted multiple fights this year alone. Despite clear evidence handed over to law enforcement in March 2025, it took national pressure and damning video for action to finally be taken.”
Some of that pressure came from ANIMALS 24-7 exposure.
(See Titus County, TX sheriffs didn’t raid Facebook friends’ alleged cockfight.)
Beth Clifton of ANIMALS 24-7, a former Miami Beach police officer, in March 2025 turned up extensive evidence of a longterm Facebook friendship between Thompson and Titus County sheriff Craig Brown within 30 seconds of hearing both names for the first time, and found quite a lot more within a matter of minutes.
Right: Sheriff Chris Bragg.
(Facebook photo)
Cops & good old boys
Craig Brown, hired by the Titus County sheriff’s department in March 2009, was promoted to sergeant in 2013 by former Titus County sheriff Tim Ingram, and was promoted again by current Titus County sheriff Chris Bragg to head the sheriff’s department detective bureau in January 2025.
Bragg also turned out to be a Facebook friend of Tim Thompson.
Tim Thompson had a gamecock as his profile picture, appearing on every one of his posts. Many of Tim Thompson’s Facebook posts, moreover, alluded to cockfighting and raising gamefowl.
Confirmed Jordan Green of the Longview News-Journal, “Timothy C. Thompson, 52, was arrested July 4, 2025 on one count of cockfighting and four counts of cruelty to a livestock animal, officials with the Titus County Sheriff’s Office announced.
Titus County deputies received a report that a cockfighting event was taking place. Deputies executed search and arrest warrants at the property and arrested Thompson without incident.”
“All state jail felonies”
Said Pacelle, to Green, “We’re very pleased that they took action and arrested Tim Thompson. We obviously want to see how this plays out in terms of the justice system. We want a conviction. We’d like to have felony charges. We want to see a serious penalty as a deterrent for others who might engage in this, and we want to see action against the larger set of people who participated in this event.”
Concluded Green, “Thompson’s charges are all state jail felonies. Officials are investigating whether other suspects can be charged.”
The following day, July 5, 2025, before the “Bimbo” cockfighting derby, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness droned a cockfighting derby at a postal address in Terrell, Kaufman County, actually located between Elmo and Cobb.
The Kaufman County sheriff’s department “got a warrant and went in,” Hindi told ANIMALS 24-7. “I saw half dozen law enforcement vehicles,” Hindi testified. The sheriff himself was in there, deep inside. They were finding dead animals and live animals,” taking them to “a big evidence processing vehicle,” Hindi said.
Elmo prior
Unclear is whether the site was the same one raided on August 2, 2018 in response to two complaints from the Dallas-based SPCA of Texas. Impounded on that occasion were 45 roosters, 45 hens, three dogs, and two chicks, SPCA of Texas spokesperson Madeline Yeaman told media.
Elmo, Texas resident Barry Cook, then 56 and now 63, in August 2018 pleaded guilty to deadly conduct, a class A misdemeanor, receiving a sentence of nine months deferred adjudication with 24 hours of community service, apparently pending settlement of the cockfighting case.
On October 3, 2018, Cook pleaded guilty to a single count of cockfighting, and was sentenced by County Court at Law Judge Dennis Jones to one year of deferred adjudication plus 40 hours of community service.
“A pretty damned good weekend”
“All in all it was a pretty damned good weekend,” Hindi concluded, at least for stopping cockfights and busting participants.
About 250 miles south of the several Texas locations where Showing Animals Respect & Kindness hit cockfights, torrential rains triggered flash floods along the Guadalupe River that killed at least 104 people, 27 of them girls from Camp Mystic in Comal County, but Hindi reported experiencing only light rain.
The Showing Animals Respect & Kindness team are based in Geneva, Illinois, in the western Chicago suburbs.
Meanwhile on the home front
Ironically, while the SHARK team were driving to Texas, authorities in Kendall County, Illinois in an unrelated action broke up a cockfight in Oswego Township, Illinois, just 18 miles south of the SHARK headquarters.
“Jose Martinez, 40, and Veronica Jaime, 46, were taken into custody,” reported Andy Koval for WGN-TV in Chicago.
“Police said 237 chickens and additional evidence were recovered and are being cared for by Kendall County Animal Control,” Koval recounted.
“They are each facing ten counts of violations of owning animal for sport fighting, ten counts of training animal for sport fighting, and one count of breeding animal for sport fighting,” Koval said.
“They were also charged with three counts of possession of [illegal possession of] ammo, which are misdemeanors,” Koval said.
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