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The Latest Leelanau County Blotter & 911 Call Report

By Ticker Staff | April 3, 2024

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 March 25 to April 1 call reports.

8:22am 3/25/2024 Threats Suttons Bay Twp., Lobby complaint– a guest who stayed at inn has threatened retaliation. 

9:48am 3/25/2024 Animal Control Elmwood Twp., Male cat, orange with white chest, no collar or tags, missing since 3/21. 

3:04pm 3/26/2024 Scam Centerville Twp., Constantly falling victims to scams.

3:33pm 3/27/2024 Animal Control Cedar, Monday saw a black great dane by Denzell Road. Saw again on Lincoln today. 

11:21am 3/28/2024 Motor Vehicle Crash S West-Bay Shore Dr., Lady in silver Subaru in 3 yards, into someone's porch. Driver thinks she fainted. Large picture window is broken. 

2:01pm 3/28/2024 Civil Leelanau Twp., Brother on property, not supposed to be unless there is an agreement with date and time– there is not a PPO, the property is in probate. 

5:23pm 3/28/2024 Info Cedar, Sold motorcycle on Facebook Marketplace but another person came while he was selling it, said caller would regret selling the bike to the other person. Info only. 

12:17am 3/29/2024 Suspicious Person Leelanau Cty., Person walking by caller’s house and yelling. 

8:09am 3/29/2024 Animal Control Bingham Twp., Missing husky, male named Ivan wearing invisible fence collar, no tags. He is black and white, missing since last night. 

5:29pm 3/29/2024 Suspicious Incident Suttons Bay Twp., Driveway alarms were set off for extended periods over the last 2 days. Today a male in gray/silver smaller sedan was asking strange questions about the chickens at the egg stand and about the caller’s house and then the same vehicle later came up the caller’s driveway and was acting suspicious in the area. 

5:40pm 3/30/2024 Citizen Assist Elmwood Twp., Caller would like to speak to an officer about her roommate who is damaging the property. 

4:34pm 3/31/2024 Suspicious Incident Elmwood Twp., Subject came up to a kid in their front yard, walking around with a husky looking for a lost dog. 

5:35pm 4/1/2024 Suspicious Incident Leelanau Cty., Says her sister took her driver's license from her dad’s truck at the tow yard. 

5:58pm 4/1/2024 Animal Control Alligator Hill, Cream colored golden retriever ran after a deer. Male, light blue harness, gray collar with tag. Will be out on the trail attempting to locate dog. Dog still on the loose last seen headed towards the Narrows. Owners still out looking. 

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