Crime Report: Car Stolen From Bally's Parking Lot

A man from Southfield reported that his new 2012 Chevrolet Corvette was stolen from the parking lot at on Dec. 9, according to a police report. The man parked his car on the north end of the east lot at 7 p.m. and returned at 9 p.m. to find the car gone, the report said. The owner still had his key to the car and said nobody else drives the car or has keys to it. He had owned the $60,000 car for about a week, he told police. 

Bally does not have any surveillance cameras of its parking lots and police did not find any signs of forced entry or glass on the ground near the area where the car was parked. The car had not been impounded and OnStar was unable to connect to the vehicle to locate it, the police report said. A police officer did find footprints in the snow that tracked from the area where the car was parked down the entire east side of the parking lot and ending in the south lot at Bally’s, the report said. There are no suspects at this time.

Shoplifting arrests

A 32-year-old man was arrested on charges of retail fraud of the second degree after he attempted to leave without paying for $160 worth of hats, a police report said. On Dec. 10 at 8:30 p.m., two loss prevention officers at the store watched the man on camera as he took several hats off the shelves and stuffed them down his paints and coat, the report said. The officers stopped the man after he left the store without paying and called the Novi Police. The man later told the officers that he did not have the money to buy Christmas gifts for his children, the report said.

A woman was arrested on charges of retail fraud of the second degree after leaving without paying for more than $500 worth of jewelry, according to a police report. On Dec. 10 at 6:30 p.m., Macy’s loss prevention officers watched the woman for 1 hour and 20 minutes as she selected jewelry, took the items out of their boxes and pulled off their cards, tried them on, then concealed them in her Macy’s bag, the report said. The woman also left the store with a night cream hidden in her hand that she did not pay for, the report said. Loss prevention officers stopped the woman once she left Macy’s into the mall and she was arrested by Novi Police.

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