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. A 16-year-old hitchhiking in the northbound lanes of Farmington Road at 2:30 a.m. Jan. 17 was stopped at Nine Mile Road and questioned by police officers, then cited with underage drinking. The teen said he was walking home to Livonia after walking to a Novi house party, where he was ejected. The teen, who said he had dropped out of a Livonia high school last year, admitted to drinking vodka and smoking marijuana. His preliminary breath test registered a blood alcohol content of .10. He was driven home and released to the custody of his father who advised that his son is in drug rehabilitation for his addiction to marijuana. . The 42-year-old Detroit driver of a car stopped at Grand River and Orchard Lake around 2:30 a.m. Jan. 16 for drifting in its lane was arrested on several charges. The man told police he was returning to his home after being out “clubbing” and believed he was in Detroit. A preliminary breath test registered a blood alcohol content of .16. His car was improperly plated and he said he switched plates with another car he owns. He was issued citations for: operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated; driving while license suspended; driving an unregistered motor vehicle; and driving an uninsured motor vehicle.
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. Police were flagged down by two motorists around 7 p.m. Jan. 15 at Farmington and Nine Mile, saying their cars had been struck by unknown objects thrown by a teen in an orange jacket, part of a group of teens nearby at a bus stop. Those teens, all from Farmington, told police that a member of their group had decided to throw pennies at cars while they waited for their bus, but had run off upon seeing the police car approach. When officers caught up with the 15-year-old Southfield teen, he admitted to throwing pennies but said he was not the only one. His mother was contacted and said her son is on probation with Oakland County Probate Court. Officers found several juvenile record arrests for him; he was in Children’s Village recently for violating his probation terms. The teen was released
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. An 18-year-old West Bloomfield woman was arrested for possession of heroin after the car she was riding in was pulled over by police, for following too close another vehicle during inclement weather conditions. They were traveling on Grand River, west of Middlebelt on Jan. 20. The woman had heroin in her purse and syringes in her pants, according to the report. Another passenger was arrested for giving police a fake name and for having a felony warrant. The driver of the vehicle told police she drove the couple to Detroit to pick up the drugs. . A 16-year-old Wixom boy was arrested for shoplifting at Best Buy on Orchard Lake Road on Jan. 20. He was spotted by the store’s loss prevention officer putting an iPod case into his pants. He reportedly admitted that it was a bad idea. He was taken to police department, then released to his mother. . A resident on the 29000 block of Highmeadow Road reported someone stole a laptop computer, speakers and a drill from his home. He reported workers from a construction company have been at his home and he suspects they may have taken his belongings.
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. A home on the 27000 block of Westcott Crescent Circle, which is not occupied, was the target of copper thieves sometime between Jan. 13-19. Thirty feet of copper plumbing was stolen from the basement. . A 34-year-old Farmington Hills woman was arrested for drinking and driving after she crashed her minivan into a tree, and then into a parked car in the lot of the Diamond Forest Apartments on Halsted at about 8:30 p.m., Jan. 22. Both airbags deployed and the woman and her passenger were taken to Botsford Hospital. They admitted they were at a bar drinking. The woman registered a .22 on a preliminary breath test. It’s illegal to drive with blood alcohol level of .08 or higher. The woman had one prior drunken driving conviction in 2008, from a December 2007 incident. . Someone broke into a home through a basement window on the 31000 block of Country Ridge Circle on Jan. 21. The suspect or suspects put the family dog into its crate while loading a 42-inch TV, $15,000 in jewelry, two fur coats, a laptop computer and a suitcase out of the house. There were no suspects listed in the report. . While on patrol, police pulled over a pickup truck for having an improperly displayed paper license plate, at about 7 p.m., Jan. 21 in the area of M-5 and Farmington Road. A check revealed the passenger had several warrants. The passenger also had a syringe in his pocket. A search of the vehicle resulted in eight packages of heroin, more syringes, a burned spoon and pills in the coat of the driver, a 31-year-old Howell man. He was arrested for narcotics possession and the passenger was arrested for narcotics paraphernalia possession and on the warrants. . A Farmington Hills woman reported she left her vehicle unlocked during the night of Jan. 18 while it was parked on the 30000 block of Crest Forest and someone stole her radar detector, a rosary, a silver ring, sunglasses, eyeglasses and other personal items. . A manager of a jewelry store on the 30000 block of Orchard Lake Road called police after witnessing a man urinating on a newspaper stand near his business at about 5:30 p.m., Jan. 21. He followed the man inside the business next door and they exchanged words. The man, 70, of West Bloomfield, told police he needed to relieve himself because he didn’t think he could make it to the restroom and that he’s being treated for prostate cancer, so he’s lost some bladder control from the radiation.
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