Havre de Grace police officers found what they say are non-human organs near a dumpster Tuesday afternoon.

According to a news release from the Havre de Grace Police Department, at 3:09 p.m., Tuesday, officers responded to a residential neighborhood in the 100 block of Ohio Street for a report of a suspicious incident. Upon arrival they located what appeared to be organs or unknown tissues near a dumpster, police said.

Officials with the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner responded to the scene, and transported them to the examiner’s office for analysis. After testing, it was determined that the organs were not human, police said.

The incident remains under investigation.

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