Category Archives: Crime Beat

Crime Beat: State of Illusion U-M burglary report turns out to be false University of Michigan Police say a burglary reported Saturday evening at the Alice Lloyd residence hall wasn’t a burglary after all. Diane Brown, a campus police spokeswoman, … Continue reading →

  Nothing stolen, just rearranged An Ann Arbor couple told police their home was broken into and several items were rearranged but not stolen, reports said. Officers responded to the home in the 1400 block of Wisteria Drive early Sunday … Continue reading →

Man shooting at snake wounds himself Monday, June 18, 2007Post-Gazette A snake hunter in Indiana County fired at one but only managed to hit himself. State police in Indiana said Nile Griffin, 39, of Mahaffey, was hunting snakes last week … Continue reading →

Crime Beat: The Menace of Rubber Snakes and Stomping Deer Criminal charges possible in freakish death of W.Va. publisher Wednesday, May 30, 2007 By Michael A. Fuoco and Michael Birnbaum, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Prosecutors in Lewis County, W.Va., are reviewing a … Continue reading →

Tell me this isn’t the stuff of a modern noir:   Suicide yields no clues to death of Pittsburgh native Saturday, May 19, 2007 By Ervin Dyer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Quebec police say they don’t have enough evidence to link the recent … Continue reading →

Crime Beat: The Pineapple Chunk Chucking Moriarty of Main Street I think we’ll all rest easier when this depraved criminal genius is finally apprehended! Litterbug driver flees bike police A driver seen littering an empty can of pineapple chunks fled from … Continue reading →

Crime Beat: Anticlimax Department   McKeesport Children Missing McKEESPORT, Pa. — POSTED: 10:15 am EDT May 7, 2007 Police are searching for two children missing from their McKeesport home on Evans Avenue. Allegheny County officials told Channel 11 a 9-year-old … Continue reading →

Crime Beat: Creative Weaponry: Part Two   Man says boss hit him at work site A construction worker said his foreman struck with a work-site tool Wednesday on the seventh floor of the construction site at the Ross Business School, … Continue reading →

POLICE BEAT: Remember Deputy, Anything Can Be a Weapon Man reports attack by roommate A 21-year-old Ann Arbor man reported that his roommate came at him with a plastic bat and a bottle of wine after they argued over the … Continue reading →

POLICE BEAT   Police: Intruder mistaken on house When Ann Arbor Police found a drunken intruder in a campus-area home early today, he was face down on a stranger’s bed – with no shoes or shirt – and thought he … Continue reading →