OregonLive.com
by Simina Mistreanu
August 16, 2013

Irina Walker, the Romanian princess accused of operating a cockfighting ring on her Oregon ranch, was known as a child for her love of animals and has spent decades raising horses in the United States and Canada.

Walker's background provides a stark contrast to the picture painted in the federal indictment against her and husband John Wesley Walker: that they hosted a series of suspected cockfighting derbies on their Morrow County land where roosters equipped with gaffs on their legs fought to the death.

The two were arrested Thursday and are to appear in U.S. District Court in Portland on Friday afternoon.

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