Crime Report: Driver with Child in Car Arrested for Drug Possession

A 25-year-old Farmington Hills man faces charges of marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license, after police stopped his vehicle at I-696 and Inkster late Monday night.

According to the report, were watching a home on Lincoln Court because of a complaint about possible narcotics sales. When the man drove away from the home, police followed and attempted to stop him on I-696. He continued driving and the report indicates that police saw a bag of green, leafy material, later determined to be 58 grams of marijuana, fly out of the passenger side window. When the vehicle finally stopped, police discovered the man's 3-year-old son standing up on the back seat. In addition to the drug charges, the man was ticketed for having tinted windows and failure to have the child restrained in a car seat. 

Thefts from autos

• A woman who parked her vehicle in a parking lot at Glen Oaks Country Club between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Monday told police someone broke a window and took a black bag that was left inside. According to the report, the bag contained nothing valuable. 
• GPS units were stolen from two vehicles parked in a lot of a building on Northwestern Hwy. near 13 Mile Thursday morning. According to the report, someone smashed the driver's side windows to gain access to the vehicles. 
• An employee of a restaurant at 12 Mile and Halsted Roads reported the theft of a wallet from her vehicle at around 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 23. According to the report, the vehicle was parked in the lot behind the mall where the restaurant is located, and the wallet was taken from underneath the passenger seat. 

Vehicle theft

• Police recovered a vehicle stolen on Feb. 14 from Northville Township, after an officer spotted it parked in the lot at a motel on Grand River on Feb. 22. According to the report, Farmington Hills police learned a motel guest was a suspect in the vehicle theft and took the 36-year-old Maricopa, AZ man into custody without incident. When police searched his companion, a 19-year-old Flushing woman, they found a tablet of Vicodin in her purse for which she did not have a prescription, the report indicated. The woman was ticketed and released; the man was turned over to Northville Township police. 
• The owner of a 2004 Buick who parked the vehicle in the lot of a gas station at Northwestern and Middlebelt early Saturday morning told police someone tried to steal the care. According to the report, witnesses saw a man smash the driver's side window to gain access. The vehicle owner ran outside to confront the man, who walked back to his own vehicle, described as an older white Dodge Stratus or Chrysler Sebring. A similar incident was reported in Southfield, at 12 Mile and Telegraph. 

Drunken driving arrest

A 19-year-old Farmington man faces a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, after police found the car he was driving stuck in the mud on Colgate around 3:15 a.m. Sunday. According to the report, the vehicle was sunk in the mud up to the bottom of its doors, and police noticed a strong odor of intoxicants when talking with the driver and passenger, an 18-year-old Farmington man. A portable breath test showed the driver's blood alcohol content was .18, more than twice the .08 legal limit. The passenger's blood alcohol content was .08; he was ticketed for under-age consumption of alcohol and released at the scene. The driver was taken into custody. 

For more information on any of these reports, contact editor Joni Hubred-Golden, joni.hubred-golden@patch.com.