The masked men forced him into his home where they tied him up before brutally beating and torturing him before cutting off his ear and driving away in his van. “They tied him up (the dog fighting breeder); they beat him up pretty bad. Broke ribs, broke fingers, stabbed him with ice picks, cut an ear off. It’s just messed up,” the victim’s cousin Marty Johnson said.
Police believe the man was targeted because of his Pit Bull breeding operation which may be tied to dog fighting.
When police arrived at the man’s Detroit property, they found at least
16 Pit Bulls tied up outside, emaciated and living in filth in the
backyard, and at least a dozen more in the same poor condition in the
home’s basement.
A second property owned by the man was also housing dozens of unhealthy dogs.
Animal Control was called to the properties to remove the dogs, but
family members insist the man was not involved in dog fighting, that he
only breeds the dogs to sell them.
“No, he don’t fight dogs. He breed dogs. No, he don’t fight dogs,” the victim’s brother explained. “He has a lot of dogs; it’s been like that since we was kids.”
The man is now recovering at the
hospital. He is facing misdemeanor animal cruelty charges for the
condition in which his dogs were found.
The men who tortured him have not yet been found and no arrests have been made.
Do you think this man got what he deserved?