Police Blotter: Customer Trouble at Shell

A man who allegedly harassed customers at the on Grand River Monday was asked by police not to return to the business.

According to the report, a station employee told the police some customers left the store after the man began waving his arms, talking to himself and occasionally yelling. Police caught up with the man as he was walking on Grand River at Brittney Hill. He told police he didn't see anything wrong with what he was doing. Officers told him he would be charged with trespassing if he returned to the Shell station.

Minor in possession of alcohol

A 19-year-old Farmington Hills man who was riding in a car that was stopped for speeding early Monday morning was ticketed as a minor in possession of alcohol. According to the report, the driver, also a 19-year-old Farmington Hills man, was stopped after speeding on Farmington Road, from South Manor to Colfax. He told the officer his car's speedometer was broken. The passenger's blood alcohol, based on a portable breath test, was .12. The officer reported giving the driver a warning about speeding.

Intoxicants in a vehicle

Police ticketed a 21-year-old Farmington Hills man who had an open container of alcohol in his car, which was parked in Monday at 11 p.m. The man told police he was relaxing with his 17-year-old brother, who is from South Carolina. The officer spotted a half-full bottle of beer in the car, and an empty beer bottle under the driver's seat. The officer found the 17-year-old had not been drinking.

Drunk driving

A 23-year-old Farmington Hills woman was arrested and jailed for drunk driving early Monday morning, after an officer saw her vehicle cross two lanes of traffic from a left-turn lane on Farmington Road south of Tall Oaks without using a turn signal. During the traffic stop, the officer noticed an odor of intoxicants coming from the car; the driver's blood alcohol level, determined by a portable breath test, was .13, more than the .08 legal limit. The driver's 22-year-old passenger was also intoxicated and had a suspended license. He was taken home, and the vehicle was towed.

An officer patrolling east on M-5 near Drake Road on Sunday around 2 a.m. stopped a vehicle that was being driven erratically and straddling the white line that marks the edge of the road. According to the report, a portable breath test showed the driver, a 23-year-old Farmington Hills man, had a blood alcohol level of .11, which is over the .08 legal limit. He was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and jailed. His vehicle was turned over to a passenger who had not been drinking.

Warrant arrest

Police called to a report of a man hanging onto the side of a moving vehicle at Grand River and Power Road ended up arresting the driver on outstanding warrants. According to the report, officers stopped the 24-year-old Belleville woman, who told police she had an argument with her 26-year-old passenger, a man who is also from Belleville. She told police the man asked to be let out of the car, then demanded to be let back in, and grabbed onto the car as she drove away. She eventually let him back into the car. A check of her record showed two license suspensions out of Livonia and a failure-to-appear warrant, also from Livonia. The driver was taken into custody, and the passenger was released at the scene.

Retail fraud

A woman walked into on Grand River Saturday around noon and, according to a police report, walked out with items of children's clothing in her purse. A loss prevention officer told police he saw the woman take the items and stopped her when she left the store. When he asked her to return the items and come back into the store, she handed him the purse and ran away. A store employee spotted the license plate number on a car the woman drove away, and it tracked back to Enterprise car rental. The report noted that the woman's identification was left in the purse.

Warrants, license suspension

An officer patrolling at Grand River and Orchard Lake Road on June 17 at 9:53 p.m. arrested a 41-year-old Farmington man, after a background check showed six prior convictions for driving with a suspended license and seven outstanding warrants. According to the report, the man was stopped after driving through a red light at the intersection. He was jailed and later picked up by Monroe Police.

If you have questions about this blotter, contact Editor Joni Hubred-Golden,joni.hubred-golden@patch.com.