Crime & Safety
Police Search for Dearborn Church Burglary Suspect
The following information was supplied by the Dearborn Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Dearborn police are searching for the person who broke into a local church and did minor damage to the building's windows during the weekend.
The incident occurred at Mother of Our Savior Lutheran Church, 19100 Ford Road, around 4:55 a.m.
According to reports, officers responded to a burglary alarm and discovered that a door in the rear of the building was propped open with a rug and had two small windows broken out. A window in the building's main entrance was also smashed out.
Officers searched the building but did not locate a suspect. The church's office was locked and no items were removed from the building, police said.
A 72-year-old parishioner told police that the church no longer keeps valuables or cash in the office due to several burglaries in recent years.
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