Sunday, March 17, 2013
Find out what crimes made headlines throughout Oakland County during the past week.
The following information was supplied by area police departments. A criminal charge is only an accusation, and does not indicate convictions. ROYAL OAK Hammer Used In Assault, Golf Club Used to Break Windshield and More on Police Blotter The following information was supplied by the Royal Oak Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. TROY Police Say Man Drives into Tree, Abandons Car, Gets Arrested Anyway Brett Francis Davies, 30, of Troy, was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of accident and operating while intoxicated. ROCHESTER HILLS Police Investigate Break-In at AT&T Store Nothing was taken from the store, but the front door was shattered, police say. BERKLEY 'Serial Bank …
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Find out what crimes made headlines around Oakland County during the past week.
The following information was supplied by police departments throughout Oakland County. A criminal charge is only an accusation, and does not indicate convictions. TROY: Police: Woman Hid Stolen Items in Stoller with Infant 26-year-old from Sterling Heights issued a citation for retail fraud. FERNDALE: Ferndale Dine and Dash Leads to High-Speed Chase, Arrest Officers arrested a 35-year-old Detroit man for fleeing and eluding and failure to pay his Buffalo Wild Wings bill. ROYAL OAK: Police Blotter: Police Officer Assaulted, Uninvited Drunk Arrested The following information was supplied by the Royal Oak Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. ROCHESTER HILLS: Police Use Taser on …
Sunday, January 13, 2013
It happened in Oakland Township on Friday night.
Authorities say a 52-year-old Madison Heights man used a screwdriver to pry open the door of an Oakland Township home Friday night. Deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff's Office responded to the 1200 block of Eagles Nest, north of Buell Road and east of Rochester Road, at 10:46 p.m. Friday. Deputies had received a report of a "suspicious" vehicle parked in the area, according to a report. Upon arrival, deputies discovered a man walking in the area carrying a screwdriver in his pocket; he told deputies he used to live in a home on Partridge Court, which is near Eagles Nest, the report stated. "This address there was checked and the door to the attached garage was found open with pry marks," the report stated. "This is the residence of …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Farmington Hills Police Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate a conviction.
A Lake Orion man who told Northville Police he was sleepwalking when he took a cash box from Northville Downs faces narcotics charges after his vehicle was stopped at a hotel in Farmington Hills. According to the Farmington Hills Police report, officers spoke with the 35-year-old Lake Orion resident after stopping his van at Knights Inn on Grand River, because the license plate was not registered. Police also noticed the registration tab was fraudulent; it was made of paper and taped to the license plate. The report indicated that a search of the vehicle turned up a bag of marijuana concealed in a cigarette package, as well as orange pills and two white capsules. A check of the man's background showed he was a suspect in the Northville …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The following information was obtained from the Oakland County Sheriff's Office substations in the townships of Orion and Oakland. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
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- Jen Anesi
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The following is a recap of recent news from the Oakland County Sheriff's Office: A man reported on July 29 that someone had spray painted black paint over the front and rear lights and license plate of his 1990s Oldsmobile while it was parked in his girlfriend's driveway on Sunburst Circle in Oakland Township. According to a report from the sheriff's office, the victim believes the vandalism is racially motivated, as he is black and his girlfriend is white. A couple from Walled Lake was cited for disorderly conduct on Aug. 5 after Oakland County Sheriff's deputies found them fighting near Silverbell and Lapeer roads around 2 a.m. A deputy found the 26-year-old woman walking east down Silverbell from the Orion Commerce Center. According …
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Oakland County Sheriff's Office – Oakland Township Substation
4393 Collins Rd, Oakland Township, MI
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Oakland County Sheriff's Office – Orion Township Substation
2525 Joslyn Rd, Lake Orion, MI
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Police charged a man with outstanding warrants, including felony child abuse, in the theft of an AK-47 and home invasion in Orion Township. The following information was supplied by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office's Orion Township substation.
A man was charged this week in the July 7 burglary and home invasion of Orion Township home in which an assualt rifle was taken. Only July 7, an Orion Township man reported a home invasion at his house in 600 the block of Fernhurst Court. he homeowner said an AK-47 assault rifle was missing, and he suspected the tenant renting his furnished basement was responsible for the burglary. Two days later, OCSO Orion Township substation detectives assigned to the case and began surveillance of the suspect, Edmund Joseph Proulx, a 29-year old man living in Dryden. Warrants were discovered for felony child abuse and two misdemeanor traffic violations agains Proulx. OCSO Orion Township detectives arrested him July 12, and Proulx confessed to …
42.789788
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600 Fernhurst Ct, Lake Orion, MI
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
A man and woman attempted a drug-induced suicide pact by jumping off a bridge onto the Paint Creek Trail. The following information was supplied by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Substation in Oakland Township.
OCSO deputies responded to a report of suicide at the bridge at Clarkston and Kern Roads on the Paint Creek Trail in Oakland Township Monday morning. According to the police report, the incident appeared to be a suicide pact between the two victims. Police said the incident involved the victims using a combination of Methadone and Ambien. A 31-year-old Orion Township woman was pronounced dead at the scene, shortly after police arrived after 6 a.m. The Oakland County Medical Examiner is performing autopsy. A 32-year-old Oakland Township man survived the jump, and was brought into the OCSO Oakland Township substation for questioning. If you have any information about this incident call the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Oakland Township …
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Paint Creek Trail
Downtown Goodison, Oakland Township, MI
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Friday, July 6, 2012
A few days before the U.S. Senior Open is set to start, police responded to a suspicious package call and found a pipe bomb at Indianwood. The following information was supplied by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Substation in Orion Township.
A few days before the U.S. Senior Open is set to begin, the Michigan State Police bomb squad responded to assist in disarming a device resembling a pipe bomb at Indianwood Golf and Country Club. Oakland County Sheriff's Office received a call about a suspicious package that a maintenance worker discovered near a service gate on Joslyn Road at approximately 1:10 p.m. Thursday. Michigan State Police bomb squad responded and ensured the device was safe. The OCSO Forensic Science Laboratory is conducting tests on the device, and OCSO detectives are investigating the incident. "We have no credible information of any specific threat to the club or the upcoming Senior Open tournament, or that this is anything other than a random act," Sheriff …
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Indianwood Golf and Country Club
1805 Indianwood Rd, Lake Orion, MI
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Substation in Oakland Township.
Highlights from Oakland County Sheriff's Office - Oakland Township Substation reports from the past week: More than $16,000 worth of valuables, including silver hand goods and a pistol, were stolen from a home on the 300 block of Camelot Way on Sunday, according to a report. The 75-year-old homeowner had not been home in a couple weeks and his nephew was routinely mowing his lawn. When the nephew, a Holly resident, arrived on Sunday he noticed that the back door to the house was open. After looking inside, he found it had been ransacked and contacted the substation. Deputies noted that cabinets, doors and drawers were open in the dining room and master bedroom and were disheveled and in some cases emptied out, with many items strewn across…
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Twin Lakes
455 Twin Lakes Dr, Oakland, MI
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Oakland County Sheriff's Office – Oakland Township Substation
4393 Collins Rd, Oakland Township, MI
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42.715123
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300 Camelot Way, Oakland, MI
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Thefts are happening around lunch time in public places, police say.
Over the course of the past two weeks three catalytic converters have been reported stolen from vehicles in the Orion area, according to Lake Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh. The most recent incident took place around noon Monday. A catalytic converter was stolen off of a 2002 Chevrolet Venture that was parked in the Heritage Place parking lot in Lake Orion, Narsh said. Police believe the converters are being cut off with portable cutters. All three of the cars that Narsh noted within the past two weeks were Chevrolets, he said. “If anyone in the public sees someone underneath a car in a public parking lot they should contact the police and report what they witnessed,” Narsh said. “Likewise, if you come out of a restaurant and someone is …
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Buffalo Wild Wings
770 N Lapeer Rd, Lake Orion, MI
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McDonald's
435 S Broadway St, Lake Orion, MI
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Heritage Place Apartments
211 Atwater St, Lake Orion, MI
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Susan M.
12:46 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Leaving the footprints in the snow and the screwdriver? THAT were his "stupid thing"? Um, no. Sounds like stalking and breaking/entering - THOSE were his stupid things! more ›