The Latest Leelanau County Blotter & 911 Call Report

The Leelanau Ticker is back with a look at the most alarming, offbeat, or otherwise newsworthy calls to the Leelanau Office of Emergency Management/911 dispatch. The following is excerpted from the October 8 to October 14 call reports.

12:13pm 10/8/2024 Animal Control Misc N West-Bay Shore Dr., Dogs and cats have been abandoned. 

7:47pm 10/8/2024 911 Hangup S Jeannine St., Little kid on the line, could not make out anything they said, asked them to put mom or dad on the phone and then they hung up. No young children at this trailer, I’ll check other trailers in the area. Everyone is okay.

10:39am 10/9/2024 911 Hangup S Jeannine St., Child with a 911 phone call open line, male saw them on the phone and said “Don’t do that” and hung up. No emergencies.

5:56pm 10/9/2024 Larceny Kasson Twp., Stolen political sign.

1:39pm 10/10/2024 Citizen Assist Leland, Man sitting on the bench at the church looks ill. Says he is dehydrated. Thinks he should be checked out. 

5:05pm 10/10/2024 Info Leelanau Cty., Man walking by road, swearing. Kicked over trash can and kept walking. Attempting contact with the suspect. Spoke with individual. He said he kicked his own trash can as he was frustrated. 

11:15am 10/11/2024 Animal Control Kasson Twp., Gray male neutered tiger house cat “Reiley” with scratch on ear that may have healed, no collar, ran off about 10 days ago. 

1:35pm 10/11/2024 Car Animal Cedar, Bear ran out and hit the side of caller’s car, bear ran off, caller’s boyfriend was driving.

10:36pm 10/11/2024 Suspicious Incident Leelanau Cty., A doordasher was delivering food and heard some noises that they thought should be checked out. 

1:21am 10/12/2024 Suspicious Incident Leelanau Cty., Caller stopped to check on a vehicle, the man inside pulled a gun on him and then took off. Getting conflicting stories of what occurred, road rage incident. 

6:05pm 10/13/2024 Found Property Leelanau Cty., Found debit card.

9:43am 10/14/2024 Suspicious Incident Heritage Trl., Was running on trail when a compact red car with black doors stopped and stared at her. Male, wearing blue mirrored glasses drove down the road and came back around to stop and stare at her again.

2:15pm 10/14/2024 Citizen Assist Bingham Twp., Caller was pouring concrete drive, had tools in road so that they could finish. Someone who lives in private drive ran over tools.