DETROIT - The Department of Natural Resources recently investigated a family that was allegedly keeping a fawn to eat for Ramadan.

According to an official report, the incident occurred in mid-to-late June when David Schaumburger and James Zellinger, conservation officers in DNR District 9, received a Facebook complaint of a subject in possession of a whitetail fawn.

Comments on the photograph stated the deer was going to be eaten for the Ramadan.

The COs attempted to locate the subject in Detroit and after numerous contacts in the neighborhood they finally talked to the suspect who stated he was in possession of a fawn but it was now gone.

The COs left the location, but after about 20 minutes, an anonymous caller reported the suspect's vehicle dropping a fawn off in the middle of the street approximately two blocks from the suspect's house

According to the report, the COs quickly returned to the scene, picked up the fawn and delivered it to a wildlife rehabilitator.

The suspect was issued a citation for possession of a whitetail deer without a license, the report said.

DNR District 9 includes Genesee, Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St Clair and Wayne counties.