Police Blotter: Alarm Likely Scares Away Would-be Burglar

A Grosse Pointe Farms man called police early Friday after his burglar alarm sounded at 3:45 a.m. and he found a door to his garage ajar and a garbage can lid propping open a fence gate. Responding officers searched the area and the City of Grosse Pointe's K-9 officer, Raleigh, conducted a search. They found a person in the 200 block of Grosse Pointe Boulevard but could not make contact with that person. The resident of the home in the 40 block of Fair Acres Drive told officers he did not immediately see anything missing from his home. Public Safety Director Dan Jensen said he believes the would-be thief was scared off by the sounding alarm. 

Delivered Package Reported Stolen

A woman and her 18-year-old daughter reported Aug. 30 to Grosse Pointe Farms police that a Fed Ex package delivered to a home in the 90 block of Muir Road was stolen. The women live in East Hampton, NY, but have a duplex on Muir Road that they use when traveling back to Grosse Pointe. The lower unit is rented out by a company the woman hired to screen and sign tenants. The women were awaiting the arrival of the package, which was from the teen's father and had a Tory Burch wallet with $500 cash. The teen is preparing to start college at the University of Michigan and the pair was spending a few days getting ready. Both witnessed the FedEx driver pull up and get out of the truck. They saw a man with a little girl take the package from the driver and then when they got outside to retrieve the package, it was gone. The leasing company contacted the woman who leases the lower unit and the women called police to report the theft, according to a report. 

Daughter Reported Voluntarily Missing

A 50-year-old Grosse Pointe Farms woman reported her 17-year-old daughter voluntarily missing Aug. 31. Grosse Pointe Farms police attempted to find the teenager, whom the mother said left the house while no one was home with extra clothing, her dog and medication. The teenager had recently returned to Grosse Pointe after being out of state. The mother said she left her daughter money on the counter to go get her nails done with a friend and when she returned, the money was gone along with the other items. Officers contacted the friend, who said she hadn't seen the teen since before she left to go out of state. Area departments have been alerted of her missing status but she has not been entered as an official missing person, according to a report.

Catalytic Converter Stolen from Car 

Grosse Pointe Farms police are investigating the theft of a catalytic converter from a station wagon parked in the 400 block of Belanger Road. The owner contacted police after his wife went outside, started the car about 8 a.m. Aug. 30 and discovered it to be running very loudly. He looked underneath to discover that the catalytic converter was missing and believes it happened overnight, according to a report. 

Drunken Driving Arrest

Grosse Pointe Farms police arrested a 45-year-old Detroit man about 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 for drunken driving. According to a report, the man was driving erratically on Lake Shore Road and was stopped by a patrol officer near Edgemere. The man's speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol, police said. A woman and a 9-year-old child were passengers in the vehicle. The man could not successfully complete field sobriety tests and had a 0.19 percent blood alcohol content. He was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and child endangerment. 

Threatening Call Reported 

A 68-year-old Grosse Pointe Farms man reported to police that he received a threatening, harassing phone call from an unknown person looking for a woman with the same last name. The man told the caller he did not know the woman and the caller began yelling at him and threatened to come to his house and shoot him. The caller identified that the woman he was looking for was wheelchair-bound so the Farms resident searched for a woman by the name the caller provided and called. She confirmed that she is wheelchair-bound and lives in the Grosse Pointes so the Farms resident informed her of the call and then reported it to police as well as a matter of record, according to a report. 

Traffic Stop Leads to Arrest

police arrested a 43-year-old Detroit man on an outstanding warrant for sexual assault during a traffic stop Aug. 30 near Cadieux and Waterloo. A patrol officer initiated a traffic stop after discovering the vehicle had been listed as impounded from Detroit police. The man provided the officer with a receipt to show that the vehicle had been properly removed from the tow yard but when a check was done on the man, the warrant was discovered.