Shrine High School spreads awareness about distracted driving
BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
ROYAL OAK — Distracted driving can include taking your eyes off the road, taking your hands off the wheel, and taking your mind off driving.
According to cdc.gov, the website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, distracted driving kills 3,000 people every year.
Young adult and teen drivers ages 15-20 accounted for the majority of crashes involving distracted drivers in 2019, according to the CDC.
Shrine Catholic High School aims to spread awareness about this problem by hosting a “Distracted Driving Day” for Shrine sophomores and juniors April 24. The event will have different interactive stations dedicated to the dangers of distracted driving.
The stations will include golf cart driving with “fatal vision goggles,” field sobriety testing, a seat belt convincer, a firetruck and a demonstration of the Jaws of Life rescue equipment, and victim support dogs from the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office.
The Royal Oak Police Department will be leading the interactive activities.
The Berkley Public Safety Department, Oakland County and the Royal Oak Fire Department will also be attending to give presentations as well as help out with activities.
“Distracted driving is definitely a problem, not just with the younger ages, but all drivers,” Shrine Catholic High School Principal Sarah Cerone said. “Regardless of age, people are being distracted by their phones and other things.”
As the principal of the high school, Cerone is always trying to teach the students in interactive ways.
“One of the things we really believe in at Shrine is experiential learning; our students need to experience things and have hands-on experiences for these lessons to truly set in,” she said. “This is just another way that we try to bring those lessons that we’re teaching them into real life.”
Cerone said that this year is particularly special, as the school is having one of its own student’s parents speaking about a lifechanging experience with distracted driving.
Tricia Imai was driving to her son’s
baseball game in May of 2021 on Interstate 75 when the man in the car behind her was texting and not paying attention to traffic.
This man, texting and driving, ended up hitting Imai’s car from behind, causing her car to crash into the back of a semitruck.
“I was knocked unconscious,” she said in an email. “The truck driver, Jeff West, pulled over and got out of his truck to check on me. He found me passed out with my car on fire.”
Imai said that West’s quick reaction, and ability to cut her out of her locked seatbelt, saved her life. Police told her if she had stayed in the car any longer, she would have died in her car, which exploded into flames moments later.
“This experience has ultimately made me incredibly grateful for my life, I don’t take a single day for granted,” Imai said in an email response. “I am so grateful that Jeff West saved my life! I pray for him everyday and thank God he was there!”
Speaking at the Distracted Driving Day will be the first time Imai has spoken about her story in front of a crowd.
“I am a social worker, and my first social work professor told all of her students, ‘Everything you go through in life — use it to help others,’” she said. “I feel compelled to use my experience to help others understand the serious impact of their decisions.”
Imai said that distracted driving is pre-
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Little competed as a skater for 14 years and then joined Disney on Ice and traveled with the group for six years. Since then, she has been coaching and choreographing. Little directed the 2011 Royal Oak Ice Show as well as the 2023 ice show.
“I have not seen an animal theme done before,” Little said in a press release. “Once I started to look at music options, I realized it would be something new for everyone.”
Three graduating seniors will be taking the spotlight during the show as soloists.
According to the press release, the three have “passed tests well beyond the beginner level, according to the standards set by U.S. Figure Skating.”
Seniors Maggie Day and Ally Pollock are both from Berkley, and Elena Keenan is from Lathrup Village.
Day has been a skater for 13 years and has skated for 11 of those years at New Edge, according to newedgefsc.org/seniors-2024.
This year will be her ninth ice show in Royal Oak, and her fourth year skating for the Berkley Royal Oak Unified figure skating team.
Day said that she will spend upward of 16 hours per week practicing for her solo or the group numbers that she will be in for the show.
“This year’s show has much more scheduled practice time than the past shows,” she said in an email response. “The increased practice makes me really excited because I feel that we will all be prepared to skate our best.”
Day and the other senior girls will be performing a solo during the show; she said that
they will each portray a different animal during their solo piece.
“Animal Kingdom” will not be judged, according to Day, but being a skater comes with self-criticism, and no matter if there is a judge or not, she is always reaching for perfection.
“Us skaters are definitely our own biggest critics,” she said in an email response. “It is really nice to skate for ourselves, but I do enjoy the competitive experience of being judged.”
The connections and time spent with her friends at the rink makes this all worth it, and is the best part of creating a show like this, according to Day.
This will be Day’s final ice show, but she is looking forward to continuing her ice skating career at Michigan State University, where she will be on the skating team.
“It’s honestly bittersweet, because I am really excited for the next chapter in my life, but I will definitely miss the community we have at New Edge,” she said.
Little said in a press release that the show will be unique and provide a way for the skaters to showcase their personal talents.
“The city’s annual show is highly anticipated by our skaters. There are so many rules to competing but this is their opportunity to highlight favorite skills and sparkle under the lights,”
Little said. “It’s also a time to spotlight the diverse figure skating program at Royal Oak.”
The show will begin at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, April 27, and at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at the John Lindell Ice Arena at 1403 Lexington Blvd.
Tickets cost $12 for ages 13 and up and $10 for ages 6-12 if purchased in advance. If not, there is a $2 additional fee.
The show is free for children younger than 6. There will be on-ice seating as well as bleacher seats to accommodate for large crowds.
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Photo by Erin Sanchez Skaters rehearse for the 44th Royal Oak Ice Show, which will take place April 27-28 at the John Lindell Ice Arena.
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JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DETROIT STAGES 1 FINAL SHOW HOUSE HOMES
BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
Metro Detroiters will have one final chance to see interior designers work their magic on a majestic home when the Junior League of Detroit hosts its 25th — and final — biennial Designers’ Show House in May.
Located at 315 Lakeland Ave. in Grosse Pointe City, the almost 8,500-square-foot Tudor home will be open for tours May 4-19. A ticketed preview party that’s also open to the public will take place from 6:30 to 10 p.m. May 3 and will include cocktails, heavy appetizers, an open bar, a DJ and dancing, a raffle, a silent auction, and valet parking.
Almost 20 designers and artists were chosen to make over the home, which was built in 1929 for Dr. J. Milton Robb and designed by acclaimed architect George D. Mason.
Visitors can get ideas for things they can do in their own homes, from surprising color and pattern mixes to furniture arrangements that are both beautiful and functional.
The living room, as envisioned by Loretta Crenshaw, of Crenshaw & Associates, is an elegant oasis with lots of green and cream, including multiple seating areas, an inviting
window seat and an olive green velvet couch.
“Loretta’s specialty really is layering things — textures and colors,” Show House Co-Chair Ann Baxter said.
Although the designers work independently, threads appear each time that tie the whole home together. This year, those threads include tactile fabrics like velvet and boucle; deep, rich colors — especially shades of green — offset by cream and white; gold and bronze accents; and nods to the Scottish and German ancestry of original homeowner Robb and his wife, with plaid in particular popping up repeatedly.
“Every room is going to need some investigation,” Show House Co-Chair Julia Keim said. “There’s so much to see in every room. We’ve got a great roster of designers.”
Laura Zender, of Laura Zender Design, created a sustainable nursery with vintage dressers, organic and sustainable toys, wallpaper using sustainable paper, children’s books from a book recycler, and low chemicals and volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. With its soft colors and whimsical touches, the room is warm and inviting.
“I wanted to show we could do a room that was beautiful and with a lot of personality,” Zender said.
In a nod to Show House history, the
hallway leading to the master bedroom includes framed photos — designed by Michelle Boggess, of Posterity Art & Framing Gallery — of rooms designed by Hudson’s for these houses.
A sleek closet showcasing showstopping shoes and apparel was designed by Kelly Os-
ABOVE: Pops of color, like olive green, stand out against the cream and offwhite furniture chosen by Loretta Crenshaw, of Crenshaw & Associates, for the elegant, expansive living room. LEFT: Kelly Osten, of Closet Connections, stands in the closet she designed with Aubrey Crawford and Ashlynn Robinson for the show house.
ten, Aubrey Crawford and Ashlynn Robinson, of Closet Connections.
“Our inspiration was designing for a modern woman who was working and traveling quite a bit,” Osten said.
Alexandra Decker, of A Decker Design, See SHOW HOUSE on page 15A
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Softball
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“I definitely try to help them because they’re younger and they haven’t had the same experience as I’ve had. I try to give them help, but also be supportive when they go out there,” Heline said. “We had a freshman (Annabelle Sorenson) go out yesterday, and it was her first time, her varsity appearance, and her first high school experience, and I was at second. It was important for me to be cheering her on and telling her to keep going and that it’s not going to be the end of your world.”
Alongside Heline and Childress in the veteran department are O’Branovic (INF) and senior Danica Schmitt (INF), who have all played travel softball together for the past three years.
In fact, eight Ravens took the field for the Royal Oak Precision Patriots travel team last year, which included Heline, Hanes, Childress, O’Branovic, Schmitt, sophomore Sarah Menzo (C), senior Brie Emery, and senior Rylee Koch (OF).
With the majority of Royal Oak’s softball program playing and practicing together practically year round, Schmitt
said they possess a type of chemistry that a team just can’t mold in a season or two.
“We’ve been with each other, for the most part, for a very long time,” Schmitt said. “Building that chemistry throughout the years, we feel like we know a lot about each other, about how we play, and about our own attitudes and each other’s attitudes and motives, and that really helps us throughout the season with our chemistry.”
It’ll be a team effort in every aspect with the juniors and seniors prepared to carry the load both offensively and defensively, including senior Riley Maizy (OF), junior Alice Mahar (INF), sophomore Katelyn Eyster (OF) and sophomore Laila LaGrand all expected to contribute this season.
Royal Oak came up a game short of the Oakland Activities Association Blue league title last year behind Birmingham Groves, but the team is looking to add another trophy to this class’ resume before it’s all said and done.
“Royal Oak hasn’t been one of those historically stronger teams in the OAA, so I think that we’re more of the newcoming team, especially since we’ve had new coaching these last three years,” Heline said. “I think that kind of sets us apart,
because we’re starting to build up instead of continuing something that’s already been going.”
Currently 4-7 on the season, Royal Oak isn’t necessarily worried about what its record looks like in the beginning of the season.
Glowacki said her team will improve throughout the season as they figure things out together and look to make it back to the district finals stage, which is now a standard instead of a historic achievement.
“I’m hoping it’s the new expectation,” Glowacki said. “With the way our year’s started, we have a pretty good split of some new people, either it’s varsity or to the program in general, with some returners. I think, at least in the beginning, you can tell with the returners that they’re in it. They show up to practice, they’re focused and they’re ready to go because, I think, they’re under the state of mind that it’s now going to be an expectation and let’s not stop there. The message since year one that I’ve been relaying to the team is, ‘We have to make a change and you guys have to be that change.’ I think the newbies are starting to pick up on that.”
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Cameras
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Bauss said the cameras will be placed strategically in the highest-traffic entrance areas to the city of Clawson.
At the April 2 meeting, it was stated that a Flock analyst will be investigating which Clawson roadways have the most people going in and out of the city to determine where the cameras should be located.
Flock cameras are used statewide and have assisted in solving more than 700,000 crimes each year since 2017 in the U.S, according to Police One, a law enforcement resource website.
The Flock Safety Falcon cameras are solar powered and will be placed on a city pole or streetlight at the four entrances, according to a memorandum in the meeting’s agenda packet.
“Flock Safety cameras capture a vehicle’s license plate as it enters a community to provide police with the actionable evidence they need,” the website flocksafety.com states.
The cameras also identify different features of the vehicle even if it does not have a license plate.
“What is unique about Flock is that if a vehicle did not have a license plate, you can still search by unique features such as the make of the vehicle, the color of the vehicle,” Dushane said April 2. “There are a dozen other ones in terms of a roof rack or a bumper sticker or anything that a victim or eyewitness is able to help describe that they saw with that vehicle.”
The cameras are used in communities surrounding Clawson, and according to Bauss, those surrounding cameras have helped Clawson PD solve multiple crimes.
The four Flock cameras approved by the Clawson City Council April 16 will be placed at the most active road entrances to the City of Clawson.
According to the memo, Clawson police were able to work with another jurisdiction to locate and recover a vehicle stolen from Clawson Auto Sales, and to find a suicidal person in need of emergency treatment.
In a recent incident, a press release from April 17 explained how Ferndale police officers were able to arrest a robbery suspect after their Flock Safety license plate recognition cameras alerted the authorities to the wanted vehicle.
The City Council did not have much discussion on the topic April 16. It was verified to the council that if the cameras break or need maintenance, Flock Safety will take care of that.
“They still own the equipment and do the ongoing maintenance of it,” Bauss said. “We own the pole, but it is only if a car runs over the camera and completely destroys it that we have to replace it.”
Call Staff Writer Taylor Christensen at (586) 498-1081.
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brought color and life to a small room she made appear larger by hanging the striped wallpaper horizontally instead of vertically and wallpapering the ceiling.
Unexpected details abound, from wallpaper with fringe to a chandelier made of cobalt blue Murano glass to a painting hung in front of a window. Without the strictures imposed by a client, the designers are free to do whatever they feel best suits the space and their artistic aesthetic.
“The designers are designing for themselves,” Keim said. “It’s never happened (with previous Show Houses) to the degree it’s happened in this house. … One of the beauties of the Show House is a designer can step out of what they’re known for and do what’s in their head.”
Held every other year since 1976, the Show House has been the JLD’s biggest fundraiser and has raised more than $4.5 million for programs and projects in Detroit. The JLD, which was founded in 1914, also awards community grants and, since 2014, scholarships to young women.
Keim said this last house is “very bittersweet” because a coming generation of JLD members won’t have this experience, which has fostered lifelong friendships because of
Driving
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ventable, and she hopes her story can help show others the importance of being focused while driving.
“Sharing my story with the younger generation is important to me because teenagers have their whole lives ahead of them,” she said. “I hope after hearing my story and seeing the pictures, the teenagers will make responsible choices when driving.”
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the time commitment needed to put on a Show House. The challenge of securing numerous volunteers with lots of time available is one of the reasons the Show House tradition is ending.
“We feel this is going to be one of the top (Show Houses) as far as design,” Baxter said. “We want everyone to see this. The designers are going out on a high note with this one.”
JLD leaders said their mission of raising funds for needed initiatives will continue.
“We look forward to everyone joining us to celebrate this beautiful show house and support our mission of doing good in the community,” JLD President Mary Hollens said in a prepared statement. “We have incredible plans that will allow the Junior League of Detroit to more fully invest in projects and programs that continue to change lives.”
Show House tickets cost $35 before May 4 and $40 afterward. A café and gift shop will be open to Show House ticketholders and non-ticketholders alike. For Show House or preview party tickets or more information, visit jldetroit.org or call (313) 881-0040.
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Monthly book clubs: Find meetups for horror fans, kids, LGBTQIA+ and more, Royal Oak Public Library, 222 E. 11 Mile Road, (248) 2463700, romi.gov/1532/library
• Wednesday Afternoon Book Club meets 1-2 p.m. every third Wednesday, Blair Memorial Library, 416 N. Main St. in Clawson, facebook. com/BlairMemorialLibrary, register at clawsonlibrary@gmail.com
Bingo: 12:30-1:30 p.m. every first Friday of month, Mahany/ Meininger Senior Community Center, 3500 Marais Ave. in Royal Oak, (248) 246-3900
Widowed Friends breakfasts: 9:30 a.m. every second and fourth Wednesday of month, The Avenue Family Restaurant, 31253 Woodward Ave. in Royal Oak, RSVP to Marilyn at (248) 543-1018
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The suspect went to the church and asked to have coffee with the victim. While the victim was making coffee, the suspect allegedly grabbed the victim’s purse and ran out of the church. The victim followed her outside in an attempt to get her purse back, but the suspect pushed her to the ground, police said. The suspect then entered a cab and attempted to leave the scene but was stopped by multiple people and was kept at the location until police arrived.
The suspect, a 39-year-old woman from Royal Oak, was arrested and transported to the Troy Police Department lockup facility, where she was charged with unarmed robbery.
Drunken driver arrested after crash
TROY — Officers were dispatched to Long Lake and Crooks roads at 1:31 a.m. April 3 for a report of a traffic crash.
While speaking with the at-fault driver, a 31-yearold man, officers noted his eyes were bloodshot and glassy and that there was a strong odor of intoxicants coming from his breath. The driver performed poorly on sobriety evaluations, and a preliminary breath test showed a 0.167% blood alcohol content.
The driver then made an illegal left turn onto southbound Woodward and did not comply with officers’ multiple attempts to initiate a traffic stop, continuing to drive erratically through several neighboring communities. A short time later, Berkley police successfully deployed stop sticks and apprehended the driver, a 49-year-old Detroit man. He was issued a citation for fleeing and eluding/reckless driving by Birmingham police, in addition to charges from other jurisdictions.
Woman accused of stealing over $500 in products from Ulta BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — Police are searching for a woman who reportedly stole $534 worth of products from Ulta Beauty in Bloomfield Township. Bloomfield Township police were dispatched to Ulta Beauty, located at 2161 Telegraph Road, for a retail fraud at 6:50 p.m. March 13. The suspect stole multiple items, including women’s fragrances and a digital straightening iron, totaling $534. The suspect placed the items into a basket and walked out the front entrance without paying. Police said the suspect fled the scene in a gray hatchback-style vehicle. The case was being investigated.
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report that $600 in cash had been stolen from a locker.
A 29-year-old man from Shelby Township said he arrived at the gym around 10 p.m. March 7 and locked his belongings in a locker. Upon returning shortly before midnight, he noticed the lock was missing from the locker and that some of the things inside were slightly disturbed, but not in total disarray.
Upon checking closer, he found that $600 cash was missing from one of the pockets of the pants he had worn into the gym and stored in the locker.
While the victim was still in the locker room, he was approached by a janitor doing his maintenance duties in the locker room. The janitor, a 52-year-old man from Auburn Hills, witnessed and described a man going through a pair of pants and taking out an unknown sum of cash. The victim reported the activity to the front desk, and based upon the description from the janitor, the front desk employee was able to identify a suspect whose membership had expired but who continued to use the fitness gym and was in the locker room at that time. Police continued to investigate.
Woman arrested after church member allegedly assaulted, purse stolen TROY — Police were sent to St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, 3603 Livernois Road, at 2:03 p.m. April 1 for reports of an assault.
Officers spoke with a woman who said that the church had been providing money to the woman to help
Woman steals over $500 in clothing
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — Bloomfield Township police responded to a retail fraud at Dick’s Sporting Goods, 2105 S. Telegraph Road, at approximately 2:30 p.m. March 13. Store management said the suspect stole approximately $520 worth of women’s apparel. The suspect walked out the front entrance with the cart full of merchandise. She was seen fleeing the parking lot in a black Chevrolet Malibu. This case was being investigated.
New York man charged for identity theft
BIRMINGHAM — Officers were dispatched to a business in the 600 block of North Old Woodward to investigate a possible fraud around 8 p.m. March 30. An employee reported that three men had entered the store and attempted to make a purchase using fraudulent credit card numbers. The cards were declined, and the three then sat in a parked vehicle in front of the store.
Police questioned the men and found that the suspect, an 18-year-old New York man, possessed several credit cards and IDs that were not his. He was arrested and charged with identity theft. An investigation was ongoing.
Driver flees police
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— An officer conducting radar along westbound Big Beaver, at Brookdale, at midnight April 3
MADISON HEIGHTS — According to a police report, a suspect turned off the power to a business in the 1000 block of West 14 Mile Round at 12:30 p.m. April 4.
Police were investigating.
Stolen van recovered
HAZEL PARK — According to a police report, a white 2016 Ford Transit van was stolen from the 21000 block of Dequindre Road on April 5 and then recovered later in Highland Park.
The van was originally stolen when the driver left the vehicle unlocked and running while delivering parts to a collision shop. The owner of the vehicle had a tracking device on it that helped officers recover the vehicle in Highland Park, where it was found unattended and undamaged with nothing missing.
Police were investigating.
Resident defrauded of thousands
BERKLEY — A 78-year-old Berkley woman reported she was the victim of fraud April 1.
The police report states that the victim told police she had been contacted by someone claiming to be from Xfinity who told her
4B - ROYAL OAK REVIEW, April 24, 2024 www.candgnews.com ACROSS 1. Bars 6. Escape or flee 9. Green gemstone or Heather Graham in “The Hangover” 13. Turning point 14. 34th U.S. Pres 15. Actress Sophia 16. Each and all 17. Lake, in France 18. Roof overhangs 19. *Lovable mother of seven in “Harry Potter” Mrs. ____ 21. *Mother in “The Terminator,” Sarah 23. Not safe, in baseball 24. “Hold on!” 25. Uno ____, in Mexico 28. Iranian monarch 30. Be a go-between 35. Kind of cuckoos 37. Passing mention 39. Dwelled 40. TV show “____ 911!” 41. *”Beloved” mother 43. Like a tennis skirt 44. Scottish kinship groups 46. Spare in car 47. Email folder 48. Vertical dimension 50. Turf alternative 52. Morse Code dash 53. Hippocratic ____ 55. Three, to Caesar 57. *Margaret White’s telekinetic daughter 60. *Elizabeth Zott of “____ in Chemistry” 64. Vernacular 65. R&R hot spot 67. Capital of Vietnam 68. Yours is as good as mine? 69. Tennis retry 70. Cause anxiety (2 words) 71. Bookie’s quote 72. Well-kept secret, for some 73. Teatime treat DOWN 1. Do like volcano 2. Honey home 3. Iris holder 4. Human trunk 5. iPad “pen” 6. *Matriarch, ____ Munster of “The Munsters” 7. *Nadezhda of “The Americans,” ____ Elizabeth Jennings, acr. 8. Muhammad’s birthplace 9. Melissa Rivers’ mom 10. Australian slang for afteroon 11. Widely hunted ruminant 12. Follow ems 15. A particular legume 20. Not pathos 22. Second O in EVOO 24. Kinda white 25. *Mrs. ____, a.k.a. Marmee 26. Anoint 27. Red Sea peninsula 29. Drive a getaway car, e.g. 31. Goals 32. Like a Harvard building? 33. Plant-based laxative 34. *____ Bunker, mom to Gloria in “All in the Family” 36. Dance partner 38. Drive-____, for short 42. Like a haunted house 45. Daisy dukes, e.g. 49. ____ chi 51. Casts a line 54. Popular electric car 56. Newton’s first name 57. Foul substance 58. Matured 59. Bob of “The Joy of Painting” fame 60. Better than never? 61. On top of 62. “High” time 63. Cosine’s counterpart 64. In the past 66. *”Married... with Children” mom FICTIONAL MOTHERS $50K in cash, diamond ring stolen from apartment ROCHESTER HILLS — Deputies were dispatched to 100 block of Woodview Court for a report of a home invasion at 10:30 p.m. March 7. Dispatchers advised police that the homeowners had already gone through the residence, and no one was located. Upon arrival, deputies met with the victims. Their daughter told police that her parents’ apartment had been broken into. The owners of the apartment, a 63-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, had left around 9:30 a.m. to go to work and returned home the same day around 10:30 p.m. The victims went upstairs and noticed their bedroom had been ransacked and noticed the back door wall was open. The victims did not notice anything else out of place and began looking in the bedroom for missing items. The daughter told police approximately $50,000 in cash that was in a navy backpack was missing, along with a silver and diamond ring. Detectives were investigating. Cash stolen from locker at gym ROCHESTER HILLS — Deputies were dispatched to a fitness facility in the 1000 block of South Rochester Road for a
that her account had been hacked and that there was fraudulent activity, including child pornography, associated with her account. “The suspect stated her credit union account which she has used to pay her Xfinity account was hacked and that the FBI would also be contacted regarding the child states. To clear up the issues, the Berkley woman was told to withdraw all funds from her Credit Union One account and deposit them into a digital wallet by buying bitcoin at various machines in the area. When she questioned the legitimacy of the transaction, she was contacted by someone claiming to be with the FBI who said the wallet would hold “bitcoin funds and would be released once her account was cleared up.” The victim bought $38,900 at the various bitcoin machines. She told police she had not received any information on the bitcoin and realized there was no digital wallet and that she had been scammed. She stated she has received several calls from the suspect but had not returned the calls. The woman was advised to contact the credit reporting bureaus and report the fraud and monitor her credit history. Credit cards stolen from locker, used at malls NOVI — A man’s credit cards and phone SIM card were stolen from his locker at Lifetime Fitness, near Haggerty and Nine Mile roads in Novi, while he worked out for approximately 15 minutes March 19. The man told police that he went to the gym at 1:15 p.m. and rented a locker. He said he placed all his belongings in it while he had a short workout. He then claimed his things and left the facility. He said that later on that day he started to receive emails from his banks stating that there had been some fraudulent activity on his credit card accounts. He said he then attempted to call the bank, but he couldn’t put a call through as his phone was in emergency mode after the SIM card had been stolen. He then used his wife’s phone to contact the banks and was informed that someone had attempted to use his credit card at both the Apple Store at Twelve Oaks Mall and Macy’s department store at Somerset Collection in Troy for purchases that totaled $17,459.76. All attempted charges were denied by the credit card companies. The man has since canceled all of his credit and debit cards and has acquired a new SIM card for his cellphone. He was advised to make a police report at the Troy Police Department regarding the fraudulent charges at Somerset Collection and was given a report number. The man told police he had not seen anyone near him when he secured his locker. Police were able to acquire still shots of the suspect from security footage at the Apple Store. Both stores provided video and still images of the suspect, which was sent to Oakland County for video enhancement and potential investigative leads on the woman’s identity. However, police were unable to identify the woman. The photos were kept on file. w OF THE WEEK • CRIME OF THE WEEK • CRIME OF THE WEEK NEWSWORTHY INCIDENTS REPORTED TO LOCAL POLICE, AS COMPILED BY C & G REPORTERS
BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
