Some consumers are boycotting buying eggs and restaurants are implementing surcharges amid egg shortages due to the bird flu.

El Paso County sheriff's investigators arrested a 60-year-old man accused of organizing a cockfighting event in Fabens after several dead roosters were found over the weekend.

Isidro Martinez Amparan, of El Paso County, was arrested on a cockfighting charge, sheriff's officials said. As of Monday, he remained held on a $10,000 bond at the El Paso County Jail in Downtown.

Sheriff's deputies and detectives serving a search warrant found dead roosters and cockfighting instruments along with 16 roosters and 27 hens, which were relocated by El Paso City Animal Services staff, sheriff's officials said.

The total number of dead roosters was not disclosed.

The search was part of an investigation that began when patrol deputies and deputies with the Animal Welfare Unit responded to a complaint regarding possible cockfighting about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 2, in a semirural area in the 15600 block of North Loop Drive.

The first deputies to arrive saw several dead roosters and cockfighting instruments leading to the investigation and search by detectives with the Criminal Investigations Division with assistance from the Major Crimes Unit and crime-scene investigators. Cockfighting is illegal in Texas.

CBP seizes rooster blades at El Paso border

In an separate case, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 180 rooster gaffs (a blade attached to a rooster's leg for cockfighting) along with 7,500 Viroton rooster tablets on Feb. 17 from a traveler arriving from Mexico at the Paso Del Norte Bridge in Downtown El Paso, CBP officials said.

The rooster blades are banned by U.S. federal law, which prohibits the buying, selling, delivering or transporting of sharp instruments used in animal fighting.

The traveler was issued a $2,000 penalty and CBP seized the items.