Articles tagged:vandalism

Posted: Wed Aug 31 8:22 a.m. by Lee Higgins Crime and courts reporter

A University of Michigan student was arrested this morning, suspected of punching out the rear windshields of 4 cars in Ann Arbor while he was heavily intoxicated, authorities said. Ann Arbor police officers arrested the 19-year-old man about 3 a.m. near the intersection of East University Avenue and Hill Street, ...

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Posted: Fri Jul 15 2:49 p.m. by Lisa Allmendinger Regional Reporter
Vandals deface East Delhi Bridge in Scio Township

Can you help officials find the vandals who painted multi-colored graffiti on the rehabilitated East Delhi Bridge near Dexter?

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Posted: Fri Jul 1 6:15 a.m. by Lee Higgins Crime and courts reporter

A 23-year-old man was arrested Thursday, suspected of using a frying pan and hammer to break out the windows of his neighbor's car during an argument, Ypsilanti police said. The two got into a fight over loud music about 6:30 am. in the 700 block of Woody Court, when the ...

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Posted: Tue Jun 14 2:46 p.m. by Lee Higgins Crime and courts reporter

A car was reported vandalized Monday in the 700 block of Mission Hills Drive in Ypsilanti Township, Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies said.

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Posted: Fri Feb 25 11:44 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff

Pittsfield Township police took nine more reports of graffiti last week — continuing a trend of several weeks of spray-painting incidents in the township. Several of those occurred on Crane Road, West Michigan Avenue and Carpenter Road.

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Posted: Thu Feb 24 2:09 p.m. by Art Aisner AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

The owner of a Saline laundromat reported someone caused significant damage to the bathroom at the business last week. An officer responded to the Parkside Laundromat at 695 W. Michigan Ave. just after 5 p.m. on Feb. 16 to report a porcelain toilet was smashed and overturned, reports said. The ...

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Posted: Fri Feb 4 11:28 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff

Pittsfield Township police say a recent spate of graffiti-related incidents is continuing. Three additional cases were reported last week, which follows seven similar cases the week before, police said.

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Posted: Mon Jan 31 1:29 p.m. by Lee Higgins Crime and courts reporter

Graffiti was found on the West Park band shell on Chapin Street on Friday night, Ann Arbor police said. Someone spray-painted the shell with yellow and black paint between noon Jan. 1 and 5 p.m. Jan. 28, police spokeswoman Lt. Renee Bush said.

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Posted: Wed Jan 26 11:24 a.m. by Heather Lockwood

Nine parking meters in the 100 block of North Adams Street were damaged with a blunt object sometime overnight Monday, according to an Ypsilanti Police Department media summary.

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Posted: Tue Jan 25 11 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff

Pittsfield Township police are investigating a series of spray-painting incidents reported last week. Police received seven reports of graffiti, and officials say at least some of the cases appear connected.

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Posted: Tue Jan 11 11:02 a.m. by Lee Higgins Crime and courts reporter

Ann Arbor police are looking for a man who punched out a stained glass window and assaulted a fraternity member who confronted him about it early Sunday at Chi Psi Fraternity on South State Street, police said. Fraternity members heard commotion on the first floor and discovered the window was ...

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Posted: Tue Nov 30 10:14 a.m. by Art Aisner AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

Profanity and other obscenities were written on playground equipment at Saline’s Brecon Park for the second time in six months, police reports say. Officers responded to a call from a citizen about the graffiti on the merry-go-round at the park located at 397 Nichols Drive at about noon on Nov. ...

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Posted: Sat Nov 13 1:31 p.m. by Art Aisner AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

Milan police say they arrested two teenagers suspected in a recent spate of graffiti incidents around the city. Officers arrested the youths, both 16, last week after interviewing them about more than a dozen vandalism reports taken from late September through early this month, Chief Jeff Lewis said.

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Posted: Sat Oct 2 8:38 a.m. by Steve Pepple Print Director

Ypsilanti police say three young women were arrested early Friday morning after they pulled flowers out of city flower pots along two blocks downtown. Two 22-year-olds and a 21-year-old face charges of malicious destruction of property and public intoxication, according to a media summary.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19 7:21 p.m. by Art Aisner AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

Playground equipment outside a Saline daycare center was damaged by vandals over the Labor Day weekend, police reports said. Officers were called to Annie’s Children’s Center at 211 Monroe St. on Sept. 7 because employees found several plastic playscapes overturned and moved out of place when they arrived at about ...

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