Crime & Safety
Thieves Target Laptops, Electronic Devices
The following information was supplied by the Royal Oak Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Highlights from Royal Oak Police Department reports from the past week:
Thief takes laptop from apartment
- 1300 block of W. Farnum, May 24: A woman reported someone entered her apartment and stole a laptop computer.
Items taken from vehicles
- 4900 block of Elmhurst, May 25: A man reported someone entered his unlocked vehicle and stole miscellaneous tools and a snowplow controller.
- 100 block of Kenilworth, May 28: A man reported someone stole his laptop computer out of his vehicle.
- 100 block of Rhode Island, May 28: A man reported someone entered his unlocked vehicle and stole an iPod and loose change from the vehicle.
iPhone stolen at YMCA
- 1016 W. 11 Mile (YMCA), May 29: A man reported someone stole his iPhone 5 out of his locker. Vehicles damaged
- Seventh Street & Washington, May 26: A woman reported her ex-husband damaged her vehicle while she was stopped on the roadway.
- 4100 block of W. 13 Mile, May 24: A man reported someone scratched his vehicle and broke out the driver’s side window. The person fled the area in a silver vehicle.
Motel check
- 111 W. 12 Mile (City Motel), May 29: During a motel check, police found a person wanted for a parole violation.
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