LEXINGTON, Ky. — Two more people have been sentenced for their roles in cockfighting ventures around the state, bringing the total to 11 people sentenced to federal prison for animal fighting.

Jerrard McVey, 48, and Linday McVey, 42, both of Carlisle, were each sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison on Tuesday. They pleaded guilty to conspiring to sponsor and exhibit animals in cockfighting at The Valley, a cockfighting pit on the border of Nicholas and Fleming counties.

They were charged along with Walter Mitchell, 48, of Ewing. Mitchell also pleaded guilty and was sentenced last month to six months in prison.

Also last month, Cruz Alejandro Mercado-Vazquez, 43, of Maysville, was sentenced to 15 months in prison and a $10,000 fine for attempting to bribe the Mason County sheriff in connection with a planned animal fighting venture.

Timothy Sizemore, 43, of Manchester, was sentenced to 26 months and fined $1,000 for running a cockfighting pit in Manchester called Riverside and another in Pike County called Blackberry. A co-defendant in that case, Millard Oscar Hubbard, 73, of Manchester, was sentenced to 12 months and a day and ordered to pay $95,000.

A referee at Riverside — Justin Smith, 34, of Manchester — was sentenced to one month in prison and a fine of $250. Beachell Collett, 30, of Oneida, and Lester Collett, 26, of Manchester, who both worked at Riverside, were sentenced to four months of home detention.

The owner of the property where Blackberry was located, Perry Hatfield, 58, was sentenced to eight months of home incarceration.

In case involving the Bald Rock cockfighting pit in London, Rickie Johnson, 56, of London, was sentenced to two months in prison, followed by eight months home incarceration, two years of supervised release, and a $1,000 fine, for his role in running the venture.

Several individuals who fought roosters at Bald Rock were also sentenced. Joshua Westerfield, 36, of London, was sentenced to three months in prison, six months home detention, and two years supervised release. Dallas Cope, 35, of Livingston, and Bradley Cye Rose, 43, of Parkers Lake, were each sentenced to 14 days in prison, nine months home detention, and 18 months supervised release. Hiram B. Creech, Jr., 47, of East Bernstadt, was sentenced to a year of probation and a $2,000 fine for causing a minor to attend the animal fighting venture at Bald Rock.

“Animal fighting ventures are cruel and illegal,” U.S. Attorney Carlton S. Shier IV said. “We will continue to enforce federal animal cruelty laws and we commend the valuable assistance of all our law enforcement partners, whose dedicated work made these important convictions possible.”