DETROIT – A pig was removed from the basement of a West Detroit home Friday and taken to a farm in Saline.
The pig, which authorities spent hours trying to remove from the home, was inside a home of a man who was found dead in a house across the street earlier in the week. The man owns a few other homes on the block.
Officers arrived at the home at around 9 a.m. Friday.
"We built a ramp, but she don't want to go up a ramp," said Lance Powell of Animal Rescue. "It's kind of hard to make a 400-pound animal go up a ramp."
But eventually they got the pig on the ramp and pushed the pig out.
Police say the rumors that the pig was eating human remains started with whoever called authorities to tell them about the pig. But police say a cadaver dog did not find anything to suggest this pig ate human remains. There were no remains found at the home, DPD says.