Police Blotter: Drunken Driving, Vandalism

arrested two men for drunken driving and a third man for driving with drugs. 

A 17-year-old Grosse Pointe Woods man was arrested May 8 at 1:10 a.m. near Mack Avenue and Van Antwerp Road after officers spotted him slumped over the wheel while in the middle of Hawthrone Road. When an officer drove behind the vehicle, the teenager turned onto Mack Avenue nearly hitting a curb and then swerving back into the lane to avoid hitting it. He had a 0.21 percent blood alcohol content. The legal limit in Michigan is 0.08 percent.

A 27-year-old St. Clair Shores man was arrested May 7 near Harper and Allard roads after a police radar showed he was driving 65 mph in a 35 mph zone. City of Grosse Pointe police alerted the Woods police to a red sedan speeding on Jefferson Road with heavy front-end damage, but lost the car in Grosse Pointe Farms. Then Woods officers spotted him a short time later when they used a radar gun and pulled him over. The man told police he did not hit anything to cause the front-end damage and that nothing was wrong with his car. He had a 0.19 percent blood alcohol content. 

A 26-year-old Belleville man was arrested for operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs May 4 near Harper and Allard roads. Patrol officers found the Chevrolet Tahoe he was driving was supposed to have been in an impound lot in Detroit. When they stopped the man, the officer could smell marijuana. The driver denied having any drugs on him but Raleigh, the city's canine officer, found two bags of marijuana, and more than $1,200 in cash was confiscated from the vehicle and the man's pants pockets. He also had four outstanding warrants for his arrest. 

Vandalism, retaliation

Police are investigating the repeated egging of a home in the 2100 block of Lennon Street. Officers responded to a home regarding a complaint about a basketball game at 4 a.m. May 7. Officers asked the men to stop their game for the night and the men agreed but questioned who called police, identifying one particular neighbor. Officers told the men they didn't know who called and within five minutes of leaving their home, they received a complaint from a neighboring home regarding the house being egged. The men, who could be heard laughing inside, refused to open their door when police returned. A few minutes later the situation was repeated. Officers identified the men, only one of whom is a Lennon Street resident, as suspects, and according to the men there had been previous disagreements between the neighbors.

In a similar situation, a Harper Woods man helping at his mother's home in the 2100 block of Allard Road reported having a bottle of urine thrown at him May 2 from a passenger of a Chevrolet Yukon that drove past. Officers located the Yukon around the corner and talked to the teenagers. During their conversations, one of the teens' fathers arrived home and said Harper Woods police had recently been by to talk to them about doing the same thing there. The man who called police said he feared the act was retaliation stemming from an ongoing dispute involving a younger boy at one of the area schools. But officers were able to determine that was not the case, and the teens were not targeting anyone in particular.