Crime & Safety
Smash-and-Grab Trio Rob Kmart; Spitting Mad Bar Patron Resists Arrest in Clinton Township
This information was supplied by the Clinton Township Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Trio smash into Kmart, steal jewelry displays
Police are searching for three men who broke into a Clinton Township Kmart shortly before 2 a.m. Feb. 4.
Responding to an alarm at Groesbeck store, police found the glass had been broken out of the front door and three spinner display cases of jewelry missing, according to the report. A large rock was found inside the store, which police believe was used to smash the glass.
Surveillance video shows three men, dressed in black and wearing gloves, enter the store shortly before 2 a.m. and head straight for the jewelry counter. The men fled minutes later, according to the police report.
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There have been no arrests in this case.
Anyone with information is asked to call the police department at 586-493-7840.
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Spitting man bar patron resists arrest
An unruly bar patron was arrested for resisting and obstructing arrest and malicious destruction of property Feb. 3 after he refused to leave the parking lot of The Detroit Pub after having been escorted from the bar itself, according to police.
Employees of the bar told police the 27-year-old man was escorted out around 2:15 a.m. Feb. 3 after he had refused to leave the bar voluntarily. The man attempted to punch one of the employees while he was being escorted and continued to pound on the doors and windows of the bar after being locked out, according to the report.
The suspect reportedly broke the handle of one of the bar’s doors and was still yelling when police arrived. Police say he refused to show his hands and began spitting at the officer who attempted to arrest him.
He was eventually placed in handcuffs. Police report he has several outstanding warrants for his arrest.
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