Overview

• The Fiscalía General del Estado de Michoacán’s animal-cruelty unit opened a Carpeta de Investigación after a wine-colored pickup was seen dragging a dog along the Quiroga–Morelia highway.
• Investigators, aided by citizen tips, located the vehicle owner who said she found the dog already dead and towed it to a secluded area.
• At the owner’s direction, agents recovered a corpse matching the footage and transferred the remains to SEMEFO for a legal necropsy.
• The FGE confirmed forensic examinations and witness interviews are under way to establish how the incident occurred and who is responsible.
• This case is the latest in a series of social-media-driven cruelty reports prompting swift institutional action, though no arrests or charges have been announced yet.