Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #66 Injured coyote running around for a few days

Throbbing Cabin is in Leelanau County whose local weekly newspaper, the Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. Additional reporting by The Ticker.
 
These are the highlights.
 
These are all real calls.
 
(Ed. All spelling errors and grammatical mistakes left in place.)
 
Wednesday, Nov. 3
10:53 a.m. — Suttons Bay Township — Subjects having a disagreement with daughter, who is moving into the house. Agreed to let her spend the night. Does not want her to move into his house. (Notified it was a civil issue.)
 
4:08 p.m. — Elmwood Township — Two dogs come down to caller’s lawn. Owners live behind caller. Lets the dogs run around loose. Uses the caller’s lawn as their bathroom.
 
Thursday, Nov. 4
1:06 p.m. — Centerville Township — Report of cows in the road. Going in and out of a fence.
 
Friday, Nov. 5
10 a.m. — Empire Township — Caller arrived at the farm and smelled propane. Found someone had sabotages his propane tanks by cutting one of the lines.
 
10:06 a.m. — Elmwood Township — Property is a rental. Subject has placed a log on the property blocking the easement in retaliation to neighborhood complaints about his commercial business. (Civil complaint, but will have a report.)
 
12:07 p.m. — Caller had contracted a framing company. Subject walked off the job site after two days. Took the sealed architectural drawings that are to remain on site. Caller states the subject will not return calls or answer text messages. It’s been over a week.
 
12:29 p.m. — Elmwood Township — Injured coyote running around for a few days. May have been hit by a car.
 
3:16 p.m. — Leland Township — People fighting in front of business. One subject departed on a bicycle.
 
10:15 p.m. — Bingham Township — Domestic dispute going on after wedding. Multiple subjects telling and trying to throw chairs. No injuries that caller can see. Person who was trying to throw chairs left in a blue BMW sedan.
 
Saturday, Nov. 6
1:59 a.m. — Elmwood Township — Lady came knocking on caller’s door. Believes she was either abducted or held hostage in the basement. Per caller, the female is highly intoxicated.
 
9:21 a.m. — Leland Township — Neighbor next door seems confused. She is in her 80s. She is saying no one is home and caller thinks she needs a police officer to assist her. She doesn’t need medical attention. (Contact made. Husband had gone to look for her. They’ve been reunited and everything is fine.)
 
6:07 p.m. — Bingham Township — Caller hired someone to do some painting. He quoted one price and then tried to charge another. Caller refused to pay the price he wanted after the work was done. Extremely angry and aggressive. Concerned he may come back and retaliate in some way.
 
10:30 p.m. — Cleveland Township — Anonymous caller reporting kids (approximately 12 or more that are 15 to 18 years old) drinking and there’s a strong smell of marijuana.
 
Sunday, Nov. 7
9:59 a.m. — Elmwood Township — Caller can hear males speaking through her ring camera and thinks they are trying to get into the residences. States they had no business being there. (Per law enforcement, everything is located. Only things are bag and door bell set in turnaround.)
 
11:24 a.m. — Kasson Township — Chestnut and bay colored horses — three total — missing down Bright Road. (Horses back in per law enforcement.)
 
Monday, Nov. 8
12:14 a.m. — Suttons Bay Township — Two men knocking on doors. Appeared drunk but then ran off. (Residence secure. All doors and windows undisturbed per law enforcement.)
 
2:10 a.m. — Kasson Township — Someone rang caller’s door bell at 1:54 a.m. Could see a white male with a white T-shirt and dark colored pants. Caller has a motion sense light on the driveway that did not go off. Male did not look at security camera. Caller thought was suspicious.
 
Dispatch received a second call about a subject walking in another driveway. Driver said his car broke down and that he was trying to reach his wife. (Per law enforcement, man refused sobriety test. Taken into custody for operating while under the influence of liquor.)
 
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lisa x
 

 
 

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