Police Blotter: Deer Impaled on Fence, Debit Card Overcharged

Highlights of recent local police reports:

Deer stuck on fence put down

Efforts to save a deer impaled on a resident's fence failed Saturday. In an incident similar to one reported in last week's , a deer apparently tried to leap over a fence and became impaled on it. The deer was discovered near Rochester and Mead roads when the property owner’s son went by to check on the home Saturday afternoon.

An Oakland County Sheriff’s deputy worked with the man to try to free the deer, which was still alive, from the fence but it was impaled too deeply. The officer used his handgun to kill the suffering deer, which was left for the resident and a neighbor to remove.

More than $3,800 falsely charged to debit card

On Sunday, an Oakland Township resident returned home to discover a message on her answering machine saying she had overdrawn her checking account. The woman, who said she hadn’t used her debit card at all in the days leading up to the phone message, realized someone had found or stolen her debit card, possibly while she was at Wendy's on Walton Boulevard in Rochester Hills.

The suspect made $3,862 in fraudulent purchases; the woman closed her account and filed a police report.