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My cousin's not a small man, you know what I'm saying. They knew what they were doing," says Marty Johnson, the victim's cousin. What Is A Thermostatic Air Cleaner"They tied him up; Husky Puppies For Sale In Ny Statethey beat him up pretty bad; Dog For Sale Erie Pastabbed him with ice pics; cut his ear off. It was just messed up."Police sources tell FOX 2's Taryn Asher they believe the dog breeder was targeted because of his sophisticated and expensive blue pit breeding operation, which they believe is connected to dog fighting.Animal Control removed several dogs from the basement of the home and were on their way back to take the 16 pit bulls FOX 2 saw tied up and living in the backyard.The attack was personal and possibly in retaliation."

he has kids," says Johnson. "They made an accusation, talking about, 'If we catch your wife and daughter, we are raping them. We're going to do this, we're going to do that.' The masked suspects took the victim's ear and his minivan.FOX 2 has learned the victim owns multiple properties. FOX 2 found two of them with several pit bulls living in and out of the houses.But relatives deny the 52-year-old is involved in dog fighting, and claims he just breeds them to sell."No, he don't [sic] fight dogs. He breeds dogs," says the victim's brother, who did not wish to be shown or named. "He has a lot of dogs. He's been like that since we were kids.""You can make all the accusations you want - it is not a dog fighting ring. He loves his dogs," says Johnson.The victim was taken to the hospital and police are investigating. They believe there is much more to this case.In the meantime, the breeder is expected to face some misdemeanor charges for the blight.The three armed suspects are still out there.

#Video: police believe these dogs are bred and used for fighting in Detroit. Animal control in process of removing them. Today, 3 men wearing ninja masks tortured and tried to rob the breeder. When he claimed he didn't have any money, they cut off his ear! The full story tonight on FOX 2 DetroitPosted by Taryn Asher Fox 2 on Thursday, March 31, 2016 Diggy’s famous, but that doesn’t make a difference to the Detroit PD. The dog, formerly known as Sir Wiggleton, was adopted by Dan Tillery last week, and a photo of the pair with ear-to-ear grins quickly became a hit on the internet when shared by the Detroit Dog Rescue. The celebration, however, might have been a bit premature. Waterford Township Police informed Tillery on Thursday that Diggy violates a longstanding ordinance barring pit bulls and pit bull mixes. Detroit Animal Care and Rescue (the group that originally picked up Diggy as a stray), however, classified Diggy as an American bulldog, a distinction Tillery stuck to.

He registered Diggy as an American bulldog with the township, in line with one of the veterinarians at Detroit Dog Rescue. But a photo by Detroit Dog Rescue last month identified Diggy as a pit bull/bulldog mix. Waterford police told local station WXYZ on Friday that if a vet of their choosing ID’s Diggy as a pit bull or pit bull mix, the animal has to go. If he’s a full-bred American bulldog, he’s allowed to stay. “We just want to enforce the ordinance,” Waterford Township Police Lieutenant Todd Hasselbach said. “I will fight for him,” Tillery vowed on Facebook Friday. “He is my family.” In response to this sad news, dog lovers have started a petition to lift the ban on pit bulls and keep Diggy with Tillery, the form is just a few hundred signatures shy of it 55,000 signature goal.A jury has convicted a pit bull owner of manslaughter in the fatal mauling.In a fatal pit bull attack case that triggered public outrage, a jury today convicted a dog owner of involuntary manslaughter for the death of a 4-year-old boy mauled by three dogs in December in front of his mother.

The nine-minute-long attack was captured on surveillance video, which jurors viewed during the weeklong trial that included testimony from police, neighbors and the child's mother, whose son was pulled away from her by a pack of dogs while the two were walking to a neighborhood school.Geneke Lyons, 42, was also convicted of possessing dangerous animals causing death. He had been charged with second-degree murder, but that charge was dismissed by Wayne County Circuit Judge James Callahan the day before the jury deliberated, a courtroom official said.Callahan told the courtroom after the verdict that, "In the court’s opinion, the defendant was overcharged … to begin with." He allowed Lyons to be released on bond pending his sentencing, saying that his crimes did not pose a threat to the community. Yet he did forbid Lyons to have any contact with dogs.Prosecutors did not agree with the decision. "We believe that our proofs showed proof beyond a reasonable doubt for second-degree murder," said Maria Miller, a Wayne County Prosecutor's Office spokeswoman.

Lyons’ sentence date is on June 30, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. The charge of manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a fine of $7,500. Family members and attorneys declined comment following the verdict.Lyons also faces an ongoing civil lawsuit for damages that was filed on behalf of the family.“This is just the beginning of problems for this defendant,” said attorney Mark Bernstein, who represents the estate of 4-year-old Xavier Strickland. Bernstein added that when compared with similar cases of dog attacks, “This is by far the most egregious set of facts I’ve seen in my career.”Related: Prosecutor: Murder suspect's dogs saw 'child as meal'The defense had argued that the fatal mauling of Xavier was an accident.But in the end, the jury concluded that Lyons, who owned four pit bull mix dogs — two puppies and two adults — created a situation that led to the boy's death by failing to secure his dogs,  just as prosecutors had argued throughout trial.

Related:Officer describes shooting dogs that mauled 4-year-old Detroit boy“It’s important to remember that we’re not here though because of what the dogs did … we’re here because of what the defendant did,” assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Parisa Kiani told jurors.But the defense countered that people in the neighborhood didn’t call animal control or the police when they had seen the dogs out before. And they never notified Lyons, who repaired and rented properties for his job and had installed security cameras at his home, which was surrounded by an iron fence. The surveillance video was turned over to police after the attack.Related: Jurors watch video of dogs mauling 4-year-old Detroit boy“We believe that the evidence is going to show this was an accident,” defense attorney Francisco Villarruel told jurors, noting the medical examiner had ruled it an accident.Perhaps the most compelling witness was the boy's mother, Lucille Strickland, who told jurors the dogs pulled her son from her grasp as they walked down a street, dragged him underneath a fence and mauled him as she looked on.“

That will never leave my eyes,” Strickland said. “Never leave my mind.”Strickland, who lives around the corner from the dogs, said the pit bills rushed her and her son in the area of John C. Lodge Service Drive and Baylis as she walked to volunteer at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School with Xavier.Strickland fell on top of the boy and was bitten on her ear, leg and back, she said. As she was getting up, the dogs grabbed her son.“They were so strong,” she said. “They just snatched him.”During the trial, neighbors testified seeing the dogs outside of their yard several times before Xavier was killed. But they didn’t call police, animal control or tell Lyons, they testified.“I didn’t take it too serious,” testified Yolanda Samuels, noting Lyons' dog had come after her two sons before but didn't hurt them. “In my eyes, they were puppies. They didn’t seem harmful at the time.”Lyons’ house had an iron fence surrounding it, making it hard for people to get to the front door and tell him about the dogs getting out, neighbors said.