Crime Report: Man Cited for Peeping Tom, Resisting an Officer

A man was issued citations for Peeping Tom and obstruction of justice for spying on his ex-girlfriend, according to a report. 

Police were dispatched Jan. 28 to the 39000 block of Hillary Drive after a woman told dispatchers her ex-boyfriend, who also had an outstanding arrest warrant in Canton, was outside her home and making threats on the phone.

When police arrived, they approached the man, who walked toward the apartment complex and sat on a chair on a resident’s back porch, the report said. The officer following the man jumped a fence and identified himself as police and told the man to stop because he was under arrest, the report said.

The man fled the officer and ran through the apartment complex toward another fence that leads into the back yards of the Holly Drive subdivision, the report said. The man climbed the fence, reaching the top before the officer grabbed his jacket. He fell over the fence, with the officer still having a hold of his jacket, and tried to pull away until he gave up and the officer jumped the fence and took him to the ground.

The woman told police she had a male friend staying at her house when she received a call from her ex-boyfriend saying he could see the woman’s friend walk into the basement of her house, which he had done. She told police the man had challenged her friend to come out and fight him, which she said her friend did not want to do.

The man was given a Feb. 14 court date at and served a one-year trespass notice from the woman’s property.

The officer suffered cuts to the left wrist and some scrapes on his right forearm from jumping the second fence, the report said.

Stolen truck recovered in Inkster

Canton police responded Jan. 29 to a report of a stolen 2011 Ford truck from the 42000 block of Proctor Road, according to a police report.

The vehicle owner told police someone stole his truck from his driveway, where he had parked it at 11:15 p.m. the previous day. He told police at 6:45 a.m., he let his dog outside and went in his garage to smoke a cigarette, leaving the garage door open. He told police he was confident the truck was still in his driveway at that time.

The man told police he usually leaves his truck keys on top of the refrigerator, but might have left them on the tailgate the night before while he was unloading his truck. Police entered the truck into its computer system as stolen.

On Thursday, Canton police received a call from Inkster police, indicating the truck had been recovered at an abandoned home at the 26000 block of Norfolk Street in Inkster. According to the report, the truck was on blocks and had its tires and rims removed. The truck’s keys were missing and no other damage was reported. No arrests have been made.

Woman accused of stealing DVDs

Canton police were dispatched Jan. 31 to , 45555 Michigan Ave., for a report of a woman shoplifting DVDs from the store, according to a police report.

The store’s loss-prevention officer told police she watched the woman via closed-circuit television place four DVDs in the child seat area of her shopping cart. She told police the woman then put one back on the shelf and covered the remaining three DVDs — Moneyball, Water for Elephants and a Harry Potter film — with her purse and coat.

The employee told police the woman then went to the cashier to pay for other items in her cart, but was seen on video tucking her coat around the DVDs in an apparent attempt to hide them.

When the woman tried leaving the store, the loss-prevention officer approached her and police were called. The woman told police she didn’t steal the DVDs, saying she just had a lapse in judgment.

The woman was arrested for retail fraud and posted $300 cash bond. She was given a Feb. 15 court date.

For questions about this blotter, contact john.mckay@patch.com.