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 November 3 to November 9 call reports.

9:57am 11/3/2025 Suspicious Incident Maple City Twp., Caller arrived at his construction site, tools were locked up. Now the door is open and a key was moved, unknown if anything was taken. 

11:57am 11/4/2025 Motor Vehicle Crash E Traverse Hwy., Ambulance struck, 911 on its side and split open, Toyota Highlander driver pinned. State police taking this over since it’s on the Grand Traverse side. Still working on getting driver out, all other patients have been transported. Extraction complete. 

2:33pm 11/4/2025 Animal Control Bingham Twp., 5 chickens in his yard for about 3 weeks eating the corn he puts out for wildlife. He doesn't know where they belong, no one in the subdivision has a coop. 

7:34pm 11/4/2025 Civil Northport, Caller is a mechanic and had a vehicle in for service. The customer came and took the vehicle from caller’s garage without paying. Also had mechanic tools taken with the vehicle.

3:11am 11/5/2025 Assist Dept Grand Traverse Cty., GTCO is out with 2 juveniles who took their grandparent’s vehicle. Unable to reach the parents. 

11:13am 11/7/2025 Larceny Lake Leelnanu, Caregiver stole items. 

4:50pm 11/8/2025 Assault Battery Suttons Bay Twp., Landlord is harassing the caller by showing up without notice 5 times now. Landlord advises he gave 24 hour notice via text of a home inspection but when he arrived he was denied entry and pushed by tenant. 

5:58pm 11/8/2025 Trespassing Maple City, Caller’s daughter was driving home tonight and was tailgated. She pulled over and vehicle continued to tailgate her all the way to Maple City road. Daughter went to talk to the parents of the teen driver and the dad came out of the house and immediately started pushing the caller, who got back in her car and called 911.

10:32am 11/9/2025 Animal Control Lake Leelanau, Lost 40lb mixed female dog. Tan in color, not wearing a collar, went missing last night. 

12:52pm 11/9/2025 Animal Control Cedar, Missing 3 month pit mix, black and white, wearing a collar with name and number.

4:53pm 11/9/2025 Fail Report Northport, Someone hit the entire row of mailboxes. There will be significant damage to the vehicle but there are no car parts there.