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 August 26 to September 1 call reports.

1:53pm 8/26/2025 Road Hazard Bingham Twp., Would like to talk to someone about cyclist.

6:19pm 8/27/2025 Animal Control Empire Twp., Golden retriever, blue collar, no tags, showed up at their house. They will keep an eye on it and bring it into their garage if no one is found looking for it. 

12:02am 8/28/2025 911 Hangup Empire Twp., Heard some ambient noise, nobody around. 

7:03am 8/29/2025 Fire Leelanau Cty., Microwave smoking from pizza roll. 

7:52am 8/29/2025 Suspicious Incident Leelanau Cty., Called out at this address on a suspicious situation. 

6:56pm 8/29/2025 Suspicious Incident Maple City, Caller was on his bike on the trail and there was a male and female on horseback even though there are signs posted for no horses. Male on horseback charged the caller on his bike. 

12:36pm 8/30/2025 Info Leland Twp., Older male has been walking up to people swearing and cursing, wanted to let law enforcement know in case he were to attack someone one day.

1:45pm 8/30/2025 Suspicious Incident Leelanau Cty., Found an air tag in the rental car he just picked up. 

6:35pm 8/30/2025 Animal Control Cedar, Two goats with collars in the road.

9:26pm 8/31/2025 Suspicious Incident Bingham Twp., Caller is reporting rapid fire going on for 20 minutes, would like someone to listen in.

9:45pm 8/31/2025 Suspicious Incident Leland Twp., Caller turned onto French Rd and saw a vehicle the size of a Honda Civic shoot a gun 5 or 6 times into the woods.

1:23pm 9/1/2025 Citizen Assist Omena, Boat is moored in front of his property and they’ve thrown an anchor onto his beach.

3:13pm 9/1/2025 Citizen Assist Received a note on his door about illegal dumping. He is unaware of anything like that. Would like to have a look at the note and provide evidence.

10:53pm 9/1/2025 Suspicious Incident Leelanau Cty., Can hear someone in their backyard garden area.