Chris DeRose
Chris DeRose (born June 28, 1948) in Brooklyn, New York is an animal rights activist and a former actor. He appeared on General Hospital, Cagney and Lacey, CHiPs, The Rockford Files and Baretta. He was an on camera reporter for the television shows Hard Copy and Inside Edition.
DeRose is the founder and president of Last Chance for Animals and the author of the book In Your Face: From Actor to Animal Activist. DeRose has been arrested 11 times and jailed four times for opposing animal cruelty, including his participation in a break-in at the UCLA Brain Research Institute in 1988. DeRose was fired from General Hospital when he had to go to jail.
One of DeRose's most controversial actions was arranging for two undercover operatives to pay Wisconsin animal dealer Erving Stebane $50 to kill and butcher a dog while DeRose secretly videotaped the action. Felony charges were filed against the dealer, but in June 1993 Calumet County circuit judge Donald Poppy ruled that the case constituted illegal entrapment and ordered the return of 143 dogs who had been seized.
DeRose is the recipient of the 1997 Courage of Conscience International Peace Award and once worked as a police officer and an investigator.
DeRose appeared in the 2006 HBO Documentary Dealing Dogs along with an undercover animal rights activist known as "Pete" and other activists of Last Chance for Animals. Together, they uncovered mistreatment of animals on a large scale at the Martin Creek Kennel in Arkansas. They were successful in bringing down the operation and finding homes for the mistreated dogs that were being sold to labs for experimentation.
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