The Chelsea Standard
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Chelsea Area Police Briefs
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2008
Couple skips out on tab
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The owner of a restaurant and bar in the 100 block of North Main Street told police that a man and woman left his establishment without paying their bill at about 6 p.m. March 10.
According to a police report, the man was described as white, approximately 50 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall with a thin build, mustache and salt-and-pepper hair.
The woman was described as about 50, with graying blond hair, wearing glasses, blue jeans and a white sweatshirt. She was additionally described as "a loudmouth" and "rude," according to the report.
The owner told police the couple ordered $20 in drinks, won $207 in cash playing Club Keno, and left the bar in a green Honda Ridgeline pickup truck without paying.
Cleaner not returned
An employee of a company in Sylvania, Ohio, that provides carpet steam cleaners to local stores for rental contacted Chelsea Police to report that a cleaner that had been rented from a Chelsea grocery store in December had not been returned as of March 9.
According to a police report, the renter was a 55-year-old woman who gave a Grass Lake address on the rental form.
The unit had been rented on Dec. 1 and was to be retuned the next day. The complainant went to the Grass Lake address in January to recover the unit only to be told the woman had moved to Chelsea.
The man then went to the new address in the 600 block of North Main Street but got no answer, the report stated.
He sent a letter on Jan. 23 asking the woman to return the machine but got no reply. On Jan. 30 he sent a letter by registered mail that was signed for as received by the woman on Feb. 14.
She called the company and said she would return the unit "within the next day or two," according to the report, but failed to do so.
At that point the complainant contacted police and said the company usually just wants the machine returned, not to press criminal charges.
An officer made contact with the woman at 6 p.m. March 9, and she said she did rent the machine but never actually used it, and it has remained in the trunk of her car.
She told the officer that she has been out of town for a while, but she would return the machine "right this minute," according to the report.
The officer told the woman to return the unit and contact the company as requested in the registered letter, and that police would follow up with the company.
Crash leads to DWI arrest
At 11:50 p.m. March 7 an officer was dispatched to Meadow Lane and Wilkinson Street for a vehicle crash into a utility pole.
On arrival he found an unoccupied grey Ford Fusion with heavy front-end damage and its air bags deployed.
According to a report, a man and woman drove up as the officer was searching the area for the driver.
The woman told police she was the driver, and she crashed when she tried to avoid a deer.
The officer smelled the odor of alcohol coming from the woman, the report stated, and he asked her if she had been drinking.
She told the officer she had "a couple of glasses of wine with dinner."
The woman adding that the crash occurred a half-hour ago and she walked back to her sister's house up the street to report it.
The woman failed field sobriety tests and a preliminary breath test had a result of .135 percent blood alcohol content, exceeding the legal limit of .08 percent.
She was arrested for Operating While Intoxicated and the vehicle was towed from the scene because it was not drivable.
Music device lost, found
At approximately 1:30 p.m. March 6 a 17-year-old male Chelsea High School student reported that his iPod, valued at $250, had been taken from his locker at school.
According to a police report, there were no signs of forced entry, and the student told police he did not have a lock on the locker.
On March 11, the student contacted police to tell them the item had been found at school and returned to him.
Compiled by Staff Writer Edward Freundl from reports released by the Chelsea Police Department.
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