Birmingham police are looking for a driver who reportedly struck and broke the gate arm at the Old Woodward parking structure on Saturday, March 28, around 11 p.m. Per the police report, as one car was leaving the parking garage, the car behind tried to quickly follow and ended up hitting the gate arm. Police said there is no suspect currently but an investigation is ongoing.

While leaving a Birmingham grocery store in the 600 block of E. Maple, a woman was stopped by store employees the morning of Friday, March 27, after they reportedly saw her stealing multiple items by hiding them in her purse. The store employees told Birmingham police that they saw the woman take a bottle of vodka, apple cider vinegar and rapeseed oil, put them in her purse, then leave the store. Police reported that they issued the woman a citation for retail fraud. The nam

Bloomfield Township police have made an arrest of the bank robber who escaped with cash on Wednesday, April 1, from Mi Bank located at 3707 W. Maple Through a collaborative effort between the Troy Special Investigations Unit, Southfield Tactical Crime Suppression Unit, and the Bloomfield Township Police Department, 51-year-old Deshawn Steven Johnson was located in Southfield on April 3. He was taken into custody without incident for the bank robbery. At the time of his arrest

The Bloomfield Township Police Department on Wednesday, April 1, was dispatched at approximately 2:03 p.m. to Mi Bank located at 3707 W. Maple, for a hold up alarm. Bank employees reported that a male suspect entered the bank and demanded money. A weapon was not implied., according to police. The teller handed over a sum of cash and the suspect left the bank on foot. Township police immediately responded to the area but the suspect was not located. This case has been turned o

Multiple packages were reportedly stolen the afternoon of Thursday, March 26, off the front porch of a home in the 700 block of Brookside in Birmingham. The homeowner told city police that the packages, containing clothing and bedding, were worth over $600.

Bloomfield Township police made an arrest on Sunday, March 29, for retail fraud at the Target located at 2400 S. Telegraph Road in the township. At approximately 4 p.m., the Bloomfield Township Police Department was dispatched to Target for a retail fraud (price tag switching) in progress. Officers were told the suspect was a Black female dressed in a black shirt, white pants, holding a Gucci bag and a large plastic bag. She was trying to leave the location in a white Mercede

Birmingham police are actively investigating the alleged theft of several bottles of tequila on Friday, March 27, from a grocery store in the 600 block of E. Maple. A store employee reported the theft, saying that the thief, a man from Detroit who is reported to be a suspect in several other liquor thefts at different stores, walked in and took six bottles of tequila, about $219 worth, before leaving without paying. Birmingham police reports an investigation is ongoing. The

A 29-year-old woman from Tennessee was arrested in Birmingham on Friday, March 20, after allegedly stealing over $700 worth of merchandise from a clothing store in the 100 block of S. Old Woodward. Birmingham police reported that the woman also had a fake out-of-state driver’s license, a fake social security card, and a debit card belonging to someone else on her person. They later found out that she had extradition warrants from multiple other states. Police reported that

An investigation is ongoing into the alleged theft of $166 worth of merchandise from a Birmingham grocery store located in the 600 block of E. Maple Road. The store manager reported that he saw a man walking through the store the night of Thursday, March 19, hiding items. The man claimed that he had already paid for the items when the manager confronted him, but produced a receipt from a different store for different merchandise. Reportedly, the man abandoned the cart, taki

A retail fraud suspect was arrested by Bloomfield Township police on Thursday, March 26, at TJ Maxx, 2139 S. Telegraph Road. Township police were called to the store around 5 p.m. after store loss prevention personnel had detained the suspect. The suspect, identified as JeremyBarber, a 34-year-old Black male from Detroit, had been stopped by loss prevention officers as he attempted to leave the store without paying for two JBL headphones totaling approximately $50. Barber had