Attempted Car Thefts Thwarted by Watchful Dearborn Residents

The following information was supplied by the Dearborn Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Multiple attempted and actual car thefts were reported within close vicinity to one another Monday, according to Dearborn police reports. In two cases, residents witnessed the acts and scared away the would-be thieves. Around 12:30 a.m., a resident of the 7700 block of Manor saw suspicious people standing near his neighbor's Dodge Stratus, which was parked on Morross between Miller and Manor. The man looked out his window and saw that two men were also in the front seats of the car. Once they saw that they were being watched, all four men ran from the scene. The men were described as black males—two between the ages of 16-18 and wearing all black; and two between the ages of 18-22, one wearing all black and the other wearing black pants …

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Crime Report: Multiple Car Break-Ins, One Theft Reported

The following information was supplied by the Dearborn Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

One car was reported as stolen, one tampered with, and five others broken into in the past week in Dearborn, according to Dearborn police reports. Car Left Running, Stolen A Dearborn resident reported his car as stolen at 1:25 a.m. Jan. 8. According to the owner, he parked his Pontiac G6 at the Mobil Gas Station at Warren Avenue and Schaefer and ran inside the station to buy gum. The car was left running, unlocked and with the keys in the ignition. When the owner came out of the store, he saw a man sitting in the driver's seat, according to the police report. Before he could reach the car, the man drove away and went north on Schaefer Road. The thief is described as a black man around the age of 20-25, heavy set and with curly hair, and …

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POWDERBURNER

8:14 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012

I'll move to one of northern Mich. places when I'm good and ready, where I punched my own wells, and it didn't cost anywhere near your guesstimate. Sounds like you live in west Derborn and never get litter from your careless neighbor, pedestrians, or tossed from cars in your front yard. I fill a 30 gallon garbage can on a bi-weekly basis, trying to keep my place nice while an assorted variety of …   more ›

Police Blotter: String of Car Thefts in Dearborn

There have been three cars stolen in Dearborn since Thursday. The following information was supplied by the Dearborn Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

A 2007 Honda Civic was stolen between 11:30 p.m. Thursday and 8:15 a.m. Friday on Banner Street, a Dearborn resident reported. The owner, a resident of the 2400 block of Dartmouth Street, said he parked his blue two-door at the curb on Banner for the night. He woke up with his car nowhere to be found and broken glass on the ground. The suspect must have smashed the passenger-side window, he said. The owner had just purchased the car on June 8, according to the police report. Another car theft occurred Friday night, when a 2003 Ford Econoline work van was stolen in front of its owner's house on the 7600 block of Manor Street, the victim said. The owner parked the gray van in front of his home at 9 p.m. Friday, he said. It was gone within …

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Police Blotter

Benihana Car Theft Second in a Week

A second restaurant employee has reported a stolen car during the week of Christmas. Other reported crimes are a TV stolen from a fitness center and an attempted purse snatching.

Less than a week after a Benihana employee reported that his 1994 Oldsmobile was stolen from the restaurant's parking lot while he was at work on Dec. 18, another employee reported a car theft. At 4 p.m. Dec. 24, an employee of the restaurant, at 18601 Hubbard Dr., parked his girlfriend's 2002 Dodge Intrepid in the parking lot and went in to work. At 7 p.m., he went out to the parking lot and the vehicle was gone. A GPS and his girlfriend's Social Security card were inside the car. There is no sign as to whether the car thefts are related. Overnight on Dec. 23, a 37-inch flat-screen television worth around $600 was pulled off the wall and stolen from the fitness center at Lincoln Lane Apartments. The TV was stolen between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m…

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