Warren Police Investigate Report of Raccoons Trapped and Burned

Warren Police Investigate Report of Raccoons Trapped and Burned Alive

Police are investigating a report that someone may have burned two raccoons alive in Warren.

A Hillsdale Dr. NW woman told police Wednesday that a man she knew left her a voicemail message claiming he had done something terrible.

The woman said that when she called the man back, he told her that when he found two raccoons in a garbage can, he closed the lid, taped it shut, and set the can on fire, burning the raccoons alive.

The woman told police that the man also said he had seen the raccoons in his yard the week before and shot at them.

The report does not say that charges have been filed, but cites an Ohio law that prohibits cruelty to animals.