Birmingham police are currently investigating the alleged theft of a package containing about $35 worth of merchandise which was taken from the home of a Birmingham resident. The resident reported the incident at the police station on Monday, July 13, but the report did not indicate which area of the city the resident lived in. The report indicated that witnesses saw a female walking away from the home with the package.

On Friday, July 24, at approximately 5 a.m. the Bloomfield Township Police Department took a report for larceny from automobile from the 27000 Block of 14 Mile Road which involved several suspects. The reporting party stated that three suspects exited a truck that had been parked on 14 Mile Road and ran into her driveway. The suspects entered her unlocked Range Rover and stole approximately $70 in cash from the center console, police said. A Mercedes-Benz parked in the drivew

After being caught red-handed by Birmingham police officers, a 22-year-old Canton man was cited on Sunday, July 19, for having an open intoxicant in a public space around 2 a.m. The police report said the man was carrying an open bottle of liquor, which he said he found at a bar near S. Old Woodward and E. Brown, when the officers spotted him and noticed the smell of alcohol on him.

A package that was meant to contain a cell phone reportedly showed up empty the morning of Sunday, July 12, to a Birmingham shipping store. The man who ordered the cell phone reported the incident to Birmingham police, saying he placed the order under a week ago. When he went to pick up the package and open it, he found there was no cell phone. Birmingham police report an investigation is ongoing, and there are currently no suspects.

A group of eight males and females hit Dick’s Sporting Goods, 2105 S. Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Township, on Sunday, July 19, making off with stolen merchandise from the store. At approximately 6:30 p.m., the Bloomfield Township Police Department was dispatched to Dick’s Sporting Goods for a retail fraud in progress. It was reported that a group of eight males and females, 17 to 25 years-old, were running around the store stealing miscellaneous merchandise. The suspects r

Bloomfield Township police are reporting several larcenies from vehicles on Saturday, July 18. In all incidents the vehicles had been left unlocked and wallets were stolen. A Glock 19 handgun was also stolen from one of the vehicles. The Bloomfield Township Police Department issued a reminder to always lock vehicles and remove anything of value. These cases were turned over to the Bloomfield Township Investigations Unit and are currently under investigation.

After entering a Birmingham bar with food from another restaurant and using the bartender’s personal phone charger from behind the bar, an intoxicated Troy man caused a scene and punched the bartender. The manager of the bar, located in the 100 block of Willits Street in Birmingham, said when the man was confronted about taking the bartender’s charger and bringing outside food, he started acting belligerent and was escorted out. While being escorted, he pushed the bartender,

A North Carolina man was arrested in the early morning hours of Wednesday, July 8, after he allegedly assaulted a woman during an incident at a Birmingham bar near N. Bates Street and Willits Street. Birmingham police officers reported that the man had claimed bar employees stole his credit card and grew agitated, which led the woman to start recording the incident on her phone. She said that while she was recording, the man hit the phone out of her hand and damaged it befor

After getting a therapeutic massage from a business in Birmingham, a client left the business without paying and was later found out to be a repeat offender. The owner of the business reported to Birmingham police that the evening of Friday, July 3, the client received the massage, said he needed to get money from his car to pay, then left the spa walking in the opposite direction. Although Birmingham police discovered that the man had given the owner a false name, they wer

Birmingham police officers arrested a man from Johannesburg the night of Wednesday, July 1, in the area of Peabody and Maple after he was reported for throwing rocks at a bicyclist. The bicyclist, an 18-year-old from Royal Oak, and witnesses said he rode past the man who then started chasing him and throwing rocks at him. The man countered, saying the cyclist yelled at him and he picked the rocks up to protect himself. In the end, Birmingham police reported they arrested th