SUNSET, La. (AP) - Authorities cited 30 people in a weekend raid on a suspected rooster fight in Sunset, one of the centers of cockfighting in Louisiana before the practice was made illegal in 2008.

Sunset police received an anonymous tip at 4 p.m. Saturday and descended on a makeshift cock pit in the back of a pasture off Pershing Highway about 30 minutes later with St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputies, Sunset Police Chief Alexcie Guillory said.

Several suspects tried to flee, Guillory said, but he told them he "had the road blocked and nobody can go anywhere."

He said 22 adults and 8 juveniles were issued summons for the misdemeanor charge of participation in cockfighting.