Plenty of beer
On Aug. 12, at 12:27 a.m., a Brandon deputy on patrol stopped a vehicle on Oakwood near Leece Road that was doing 50 mph in a 35 mph zone. The driver smelled of intoxicants and there were three passengers in the car. When asked if he’d had anything to drink, he said no. The front seat passenger said he’d had a lot to drink and the driver didn’t drink. The deputy asked the driver to exit the vehicle and once he was out, the smell of intoxicants was still on him. The driver said, ‘I’ll be honest with you, I’ve had four beers in the last hour.? While performing field sobriety tests, the man said it was hard because he doesn’t have good coordination to begin with and he was nervous. A preliminary breathalyzer test showed the man had a blood alcohol content of .126 percent. He was arrested for operating while intoxicated and taken to the Oakland County Jail.
Chain, chain, chain
On Aug. 13, at about 3 a.m., a Brandon deputy responded to a larceny report in the 1600 block of Connell Road. The complainant said someone stole his chainsaw, valued at $180, as well as a 6-gallon plastic gas can stored near a barn.
Flaming poo
On Aug. 14, a Brandon deputy responded to the 100 block of Crescent Hill for an area check at around 2 a.m. The complainant said someone rang her doorbell and she found a bag with feces in it on fire on her front porch. While the deputy was checking the area, he received news of the same thing happening on Sands Road. A woman at that residence reported seeing a maroon Ford Taurus as the suspect car. She followed it and got a license plate number. When tracked down, the driver of the vehicle, a minor, said she met with friends and they went to a farm on Hummer Lake Road to get feces. The case is open.
If the shoe fits
On Aug. 14, at 2:10 a.m., a Brandon deputy responded to the 200 block of Candace Court for breaking and entering that had just occurred. The complainant said he had just come home from vacation and was awakened when he heard someone in the house. He yelled, ‘Who’s there?? and when no one answered, he ran out back. The sliding door was off the track and whoever had come in had used the garage door keypad and opened the garage door partway. The homeowner noticed a size 13 pair of men’s shoes that were brown, green, red and yellow with green shoelaces by the door. He suspected a neighbor boy and went to the neighbor’s house, where no lights were on. While checking the deck area, the complainant heard someone crashing through the woods. He chased the person right into the home’s basement and it was the person he suspected of entering his home, but the suspect had shoes on. He asked the boy who he was with in his house and the suspect said nobody. When asked what he was doing in the woods at 2:30 a.m., the suspect said he was smoking. The complainant told him that whoever was there with him was not getting his shoes back. The case is open.
Hot and cold
On Aug. 15, at about 12:24 a.m., a Brandon deputy performing building checks near Ortonville and Glass roads noticed a woman sleeping behind the steering wheel of a parked vehicle. The woman was covered in sweat while the air conditioning was on high and the sunroof open. He tapped on the window to wake her and asked for her identification. She said she didn’t have it on her and wrote a name on a pad of paper for the deputy. She smelled of intoxicants and when he asked her how much alcohol she’d had, she didn’t respond. When asked if she was on any medications, she said she’d taken four methadone pills. She said she was coming from a party in Clarkston and headed to a friend’s house in Clarkston. When asked if she knew where she was, she responded that she was in Waterford. A preliminary breathalyzer test was given to the woman and with a very small air sample, she registered a .129 percent blood alcohol content. She finally admitted she’d given the deputy a false name because she had a warrant out for her arrest. She gave him her real name, and the deputy discovered she had arrests for operating while intoxicated from 1993 and 1994, as well as an arrest for unlawful body alcohol content from 1997, and two charges of driving while license suspended from May and June of 2005. He confiscated pills, $2,000 in cash and a glass smoking device from the woman and she was taken to the Oakland County Jail.