Monday, April 22, 2013
The Detroit police officer now faces six counts.
A Farmington Hills resident and Detroit police officer facing four counts of criminal sexual conduct was charged with two more counts Friday, according to an article in the Observer & Eccentric. According to the article, the charges were added to Geoffrey Townsend in connection with a second female, age 15. The original charges were based on the reported sexual assault of a 14-15-year-old female. Townsend, 43, is founder of Reality Check Detroit. According to the non-profit's website, he has been a police officer since 2000 and created the 501(c)3 nonprofit to correct negative behavior in young people ages 6 to 14. The program includes a 12-week physical "re-instruction program" consisting of "military based, high impact exercises". …
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Farmington Hills Police Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate a conviction.
Thieves took electronics, jewelry and more than $5,000 in cash from two Farmington Hills homes on April 11. According to Farmington Hills Police reports, a resident in the 31000 block of Carriage Hills Road called police at 5:24 p.m. that day, after finding $5,000 cash, $130 in coins and all of his wife's jewelry missing. The report indicated a sliding door that opened into the dining room was pried open to gain entry to the home. Shortly before 4 p.m. on the same day, a resident in the 27000 block of East Echo Valley called police after finding someone had pried open her front door. According to the report, a flat screen television set, Seiko watch and digital camera were taken. Police found parts of a deadbolt lock laying on the floor…
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Farmington Hills Police Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate a conviction.
Three children suffered minor injuries Monday, after someone fired at them with a BB or pellet gun while they were walking in the area of Barfield and Fink in Farmington Hills. According to the Farmington Hills Police report, a 10-year-old girl told police that she was walking on Fink with a group of friends when a minivan stopped and a man shot a BB gun at the group several times. She and two boys, ages 11 and 12, had red marks on their skin as a result of the shooting. The report indicated that police located the driver, who told them a friend riding with him asked him to stop the vehicle, because the friend knew one of the children in the group and "wanted to mess with him". Two Airsoft guns were confiscated from the driver's home; …
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Barfield St & Fink Ave, Farmington Hills, MI
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Concerns over heavy traffic on Tax Day prompts a call to Farmington Hills Police.
A medium-sized brown tote bag left in the boulevard near the U.S. Post Office on 12 Mile Road in Farmington Hills prompted a call to Farmington Hills policeMonday. According to the report, postal authorities were concerned because heavy traffic was expected at the facility on the April 15 deadline to file income tax returns. Michigan State Police bomb squad officers did not find evidence that the tote contained a bomb. When police opened the bag, they found towing straps, jumper cables, miscellaneous tools and a survival kit. The bag is being held at the Farmington Hills Police Dept. On Tuesday, the Jewish Community Center at Maple and Drake in West Bloomfield was evacuated, after two suspicious packages were spotted in the bushes near …
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-83.36963
United States Post Office - Farmington Hills
32455 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Farmington Public Safety Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate a conviction.
A Farmington man may face charges after admitting to police that he took a $2,500 wheelchair from an enclosed garage at Chatham Hills Apartments April 1 and tossed it into a Dumpster. According to the Farmington Public Safety weekly report, friends of a 20-year-old man who has no legs brought him into the station on Liberty Street at around 2 p.m. to report the theft. The man left his wheelchair in the garage while visiting with friends in the apartment building. The report indicated that when friends learned the wheelchair had been dumped, they went to retrieve it and found the waste container had just been emptied. When asked why he did it, the man who dumped the wheelchair told police simply, "it was poor judgment”. The man who owned…
Monday, April 8, 2013
A judge in the 47th District Court denied a request for Andrew Montgomery Howell to be released from jail with a GPS tether.
The longtime Farmington Public Schools substitute teacher accused of criminal sexual conduct will remain jailed on a $1 million bond, according to an article in the Observer & Eccentric. The article states that Andrew Montgomery Howell's attorney asked for a lower bond and to have Howell put on a GPS tether instead of staying in jail, but the judge denied the request Friday. As Farmington-Farmington Hills Patch previously reported, Howell, 58, of Farmington Hills faces a charge of criminal sexual conduct in the 2nd Degree. Howell was arrested on March 27 after an incident reported to have occurred during school hours at Hillside Elementary School. In a district-wide list serv statement sent on Friday, Farmington Public Schools …
Saturday, April 6, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Farmington Public Safety Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate a conviction.
Three 17-year-olds from Southfield and Detroit face charges after police were called to check out a suspicious vehicle parked at a Farmington apartment complex on Grand River March 26. According to the Farmington Public Safety report, the vehicle was moved by the time police arrived, but was later stopped in the complex. A check of the driver's record showed a suspended license; she was taken into custody. The report indicated police noticed an odor of burned marijuana, and when the Detroit teen got out of the vehicle, a 4-inch marijuana "blunt" or cigar fell onto the ground. Eight additional blunts were found in the vehicle's glove box. Two teens home from college face charges of possessing alcohol, after an early morning traffic stop …
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Fitness 19
23296 Farmington Rd, Farmington, MI
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-83.41871
Grand River Ave & Halsted Rd, Farmington, MI
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42.45693
-83.35781
Grand River Ave & Mooney St, Farmington, MI
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Farmington Hills Police Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate a conviction.
A resident at a Farmington Hills apartment complex on Orchard Lake Road called police shortly after 9 p.m. on Saturday after finding a 1-year-old child wandering unsupervised in the hallway. According to the Farmington Hills Police report, an officer recognized the child because he had responded to a similar call in February. At the family's apartment, police found the door open and the child's mother sleeping. The report indicated that the child's mother told police she thought her child was still at a relative's home. The mother also told police she had taken medication for post-surgical pain. Police told the mother that because of the previous call a child neglect report would be filed, according to the report. A resident in the …
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W 12 Mile Rd & Cordoba, Farmington Hills, MI
Tires stolen
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Orchard Lake Rd & W 8 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI
Child wandering
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-83.35407
I-696 & Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The following information was supplied by the Farmington Hills Police Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate a conviction.
A 23-year-old Detroit man with 29 current license suspensions faces charges that include failure to use a car seat for his 3-year-old after Farmington Hills police stopped his vehicle on west M-5 Tuesday. According to the report, an officer on patrol estimated the driver was traveling 90 mph, and his vehicle began swerving from lane to lane as he headed toward Interstate 96. Officers noticed a strong odor of marijuana and noticed the child in the backseat as they spoke to a 20-year-old Detroit woman who was also in the vehicle. The report indicated that a search of the passenger uncovered a small plastic bag of marijuana in her front jacket pocket. The woman told police the jacket was not hers. Police also found an opened bottle of …
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-83.34452
M-5 & Grand River Ave, Farmington Hills, MI
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with a fight that left a Detroit man dead.
A Farmington Hills man has been arrested after a fight in Ypsilanti left a man dead Sunday night, according to AnnArbor.com. According to the article, 46-year-old John Lawrence of Detroit was found dead after coming to the aid of his daughter, who was arguing with her roommate about money at Peninsular Place apartment complex in Ypsilanti. Raven Lawrence told AnnArbor.com that her father told her to wait outside. When she returned to the apartment, she found her father lying on the floor. Police have initially ruled the man's death as a homicide, citing blunt force trauma as the cause of death. The daughter's 20-year-old roommate, a woman from Ypsilanti, and her roommate's 20-year-old boyfriend, of Farmington Hills, were arrested Sunday …
shavone travick
5:58 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
I just can't believe thatmy daughter is in that program . he's a good man.s travick more ›