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What’s up, doc?
A 34-year-old Canton Township woman was arrested under suspicion of prescription fraud on April 12. A pharmacist at Target on Ford Road called police when the suspect called in a prescription for Vicodin written by a “Dr. Noble” at the University of Michigan Canton Health Center on Canton Center Road. The pharmacist had never heard of the doctor before. A call to the medical center revealed the suspect had seen a doctor there by another name, but no prescriptions had been written for a year.
Under where?
A loss prevention worker at Kohl’s on Ford Road spotted a 47-year-old female concealing undergarments and trying to walk out of the store without paying for them. The employee said the suspect was captured on video surveillance on March 18 in a separate theft, but was not apprehended. According to police reports, the woman walked to the Misses’ department in the store on April 12 and was seen to “kneel down behind a fixture and conceal several women’s apparel items in her pants.”
Tool time
A Canton Township man reported that $5,835 worth of tools were stolen from his porch overnight April 5. The 45-year-old victim told police someone broke in the door to the porch of his Yost Road house, which was held shut with a wrench and a piece of wood, according to police reports. No access was gained to the house. Police were investigating.
Lost and found
A 53-year-old woman who accidentally left behind her checkbook at Flagstar Bank on Ford Road found out someone wrote a check before she could close the account. According to police reports, the woman said the $350 check was issued to a person she did not know on April 18. The person used a Michigan driver’s liscense as ID to cash it. Police were investigating.
