The manager of Green Acres Memorial Park said today he’s looking for anyone interested in a few pigs that have been visiting the cemetery property.

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said reports of pigs in the cemetery, located south of U.S. 80 just east of the Beechwood intersection, have been coming in for several weeks now. There are usually about three and sometimes as many as six.

In addition to rooting up the lawn just outside Green Acres’ front gate, the hogs have caused damage to yards of homes east of the cemetery, he said. The hogs have not been seen around any of the graves in the cemetery.

Pace said he and his deputies have gone door-to-door in the area attempting to locate someone who will claim the animals. “No one has admitted to owning them,” the sheriff said.

“I have conferred with the chief investigator with the (Mississippi) Department of Agriculture and someone from the (Mississippi) Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, and they concluded the pigs are living in the wild and no one claims them. Therefore, the property owner can get rid of them as he chooses,” Pace said.

James Horn, manager of Green Acres, said this morning he is looking for someone who raises hogs to come get them.

“They were not here this morning,” Horn said, adding, “If you know of someone, call me.”