Nine men and two women were charged Monday with attending a dogfight, a four-year felony, after police found them with two fighting dogs in a vacant west side home over the weekend.
Police received a call complaining about a dogfight at a home in the 19000 block of Asbury Park early Sunday morning.
As the responding officers approached what appeared to be a vacant house, they saw lights inside even though the electric power was shut off.
Officers found the front door ajar, and when they yelled "police" and knocked on the door, someone slammed the door shut and held it closed from the inside, according to a police report.
Officers said they heard people scrambling inside and saw men jumping out a rear window and over a fence and running away through an alley behind the side.
Police said they found a dogfight in progress in the basement of the house.
Police shot both dogs.
The owner of the home told police she had not given anyone permission to enter the vacant property or to hold dogfights there.
Charged in the case are: Timothy Robinson, 35, Christopher Welch, 40, Keith Turner, 30, Donald Jenkins, 22, Roy Wells, 38, Aisha McCormick, 28, Ayana Lee, 30, Pierre Mason, 23, George Roberson, 23, all of Detroit; Eddie Myles, 21, of Decatur, Ga.; and Lamar White, 29, of Garden City. They will be arraigned on the charges today in 36th District Court in Detroit.
Attending a dogfight carries the same penalty under Michigan law as staging or participating in dogfighting. Neighborhood MapFor more information about the Interactive Animal Cruelty Maps, see the map notes.
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