The Latest Leelanau County Blotter & 911 Call Report

The Leelanau Ticker is back with a look at the most alarming, offbeat, or otherwise newsworthy calls to the Leelanau Office of Emergency Management/911 dispatch. The following is excerpted from the July 16 to July 21 call reports.

12:45am 7/16/2025 Noise Leelanau Cty., Caller is reporting pounding music.

12:47pm 7/16/2025 Car Animal S Lake Leelanau Dr., Hit a small bear. It’s dead. Some damage to the car. Road commission took possession of the bear.

9:32am 7/17/2025 Motor Vehicle Crash S West-Bay Shore Dr., White Chevy pickup truck crossed into his lane and hit mirror then kept going. 

8:28pm 7/17/2025 Suspicious Incident Leland, Saw someone climbing over the fence at the Bluebird construction site, is out looking through the windows on the platform. 

1:58pm 7/18/2025 Citizen Assist Leelanau Cty., Caller states that someone is in her phone reading her emails and sending messages.

2:38pm 7/18/2025 Abandoned Vehicle Lake Leelanau, Caller thought it was his neighbor’s trailer but talked to neighbor and neighbor saw a couple guys push it into the driveway a couple weeks ago and leave it there.

10:19pm 7/18/2025 Road Hazard Lake Leelanau, Three cows are out and grazing on the roadside. 

2:35pm 7/19/2025 Missing Person Leelanau Cty., Last time brother was heard from was around July 4th. Whereabouts are unknown. 

3:34pm 7/19/2025 Traffic Violation E Traverse Hwy., Large white truck, passing on double lines, no plate, high rate of speed.

9:18pm 7/19/2025 Entrapment Leland, Caller is locked inside the public bathrooms. Called back and said the door somehow opened and he was able to get out. 

3:10pm 7/20/2025 Traffic Violation Elmwood Twp., Silver Dodge Ram, caller described them as “rolling coal” or trying to expel their diesel exhaust onto other vehicles. Driving erratically. 

9:22pm 7/20/2025 Misc Juvenile S Center Hwy., Caller is seeing a bunch of juveniles in the parking lot causing a ruckus. 

3:48pm 7/21/2025 Trespassing Glen Arbor Twp., Staff members found ripped tags from merchandise. Caller went around town and found the person who did it at another store– wants person to be trespassed. 

7:50pm 7/21/2025 Fire Misc E Cherry Bend Rd., Sign on the Tart Trail set on fire, not catching anything else so far. It is a sign for the riders to stop. Will be out investigating.