Snow plow crew gets away with liquor theft during weekend storm, Saline police say
Saline police said a man walked away from the CVS Pharmacy without paying for an expensive bottle of liquor on Monday.
An officer on patrol in the 400 block of East Michigan Avenue was flagged down by a store employee at about 12:45 a.m. who said a man just shoplifted a bottle of alcohol valued at $50 and fled in a truck with a snow plow attached to the front, reports said.
The employee said he yelled several times for the man to stop once the theft alarms at the door sounded. He said he also ran after him, but couldn’t catch up before the thief got in the passenger side of a Ford pick-up truck that headed north on Maple Road, reports said.
The officer headed in that direction but was slowed by several inches of snow on the ground. He did catch up to a pickup truck with snow removal equipment near the Maplewood Road intersection but determined it was not the vehicle after stopping it.
That driver was cited for operating on a suspended license and had to call a relative to give him a ride and drive his truck home, reports said.
A detailed description of the liquor thief was not available. The truck was described as red with a yellow plow, reports said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the department at 734-429-7911 or Detective Don Lupi at dlupi@cityofsaline.org.
Art Aisner is a freelance writer for AnnArbor.com. Reach the news desk at news@annarbor.com or 734-623-2530.
Comments
RJA
Fri, Feb 25, 2011 : 5:51 p.m.
My thoughts also (tripleV Six) The first thing I thought was, this can't be a truck from the Washtenaw Road Commission! The Police Officer still made a good catch, ( a suspended driver). The red truck with the yellow plow might not be hard to catch. It's to bad the employee didn't get a partial plate number. This could have been dangerous to the employee, (the chase).
smokeblwr
Fri, Feb 25, 2011 : 5:21 p.m.
Gives a new meaning to the term "plowed".
TripleVSix
Fri, Feb 25, 2011 : 4:11 p.m.
The use of the term, "Snow plow crew" in the headline makes it sound like it was a government employee in a government truck. However, it was just a guy who was a passenger in a Ford pickup that had a plow on the front of it.
Epengar
Fri, Feb 25, 2011 : 8:35 p.m.
I had the same reaction as TripleVSix. I think the label "snow plow" is best used fora more specialized vehicles, especially if you suggest that it has a "crew." I don't think of a pickup with a plow on it as a "snow plow."
simply amazed
Fri, Feb 25, 2011 : 5:40 p.m.
What about the term "snow plow crew" implies government? just asking. not trying to be a smart alec.