Deputies seize yet more animals from The Devoted Barn

(Detroit Free Press) OCEOLA TWP. — More animals belonging to a troubled rescue operator have been seized, this time from an Oceola Township farm in Livingston County.

The Devoted Barn founder, Melissa Borden, 50, already faces felony animal cruelty and abandonment charges in Livingston and Genesee counties. In Livingston County, deputies seized farm animals from a property in Tyrone Township. In Genesee County, an investigation was launched into dog housing in Grand Blanc.

On Tuesday, April 30, deputies with LCSO executed a search warrant at a farm on Mack Road in Oceola Township, another site where the rescue keeps animals.

"We ended up seizing five animals on the direction of a veterinarian," Lt. Chad Sell told The Daily on Thursday. ................(more)

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