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 April 2 to April 8 call reports.

12:34pm 4/2/2024 Animal Control Pine View Rd., 2 hound dogs on Pine View. 

4:54pm 4/2/2024 Road Hazard Suttons Bay Twp., Called out by 45-22, a vehicle is sticking out into the roadway at this address. Vehicle has been moved. 

9:39pm 4/2/2024 Info Kasson Twp., Caller can hear loud tarp blowing in the wind across the road at her neighbors, she is concerned the green house is going to blow apart. Tried contacting the property owner but there was no answer. 

9:53am 4/4/2024 Motor Vehicle Crash Lake Leelanau, Garbage truck struck caller’s vehicle around 3 or 4am this morning.

10:04am 4/4/2024 Welfare Check Bingham Twp., Fort Payne Police Department in Alabama called, would like to talk to a detective or deputy about how we handle custody cases. 

11:20am 4/4/2024 Michigan Department of Transportation Lake Leelanau, Someone broke the pallet in the back of her truck and has scraped the paint down the metal on the top of the cab. 

12:45pm 4/4/2024 Animal Control Lake Leelanau, 2 large dogs in caller’s side yard, mastiff and shepherd.

4:41pm 4/4/2024 Animal Control Leelanau Twp., Dog wandered into caller’s lawn, puppy german shepherd mix with leash it’s dragging along. 

8:02pm 4/4/2024 Weapon Violation Suttons Bay Twp., Per 45-07, inmate is reporting a firearms straw sale. 

9:59pm 4/4/2024 Suspicious Incident Suttons Bay Twp., Caller had a man jump out in front of him in Suttons Bay, caller had to slam on the breaks, he may have injured the man. 

10:05pm 4/4/2024 Suspicious Incident Glen Lake, Caller is reporting that the staff is waking her up, slamming things around to scare her half to death because they think it is funny. 

6:56pm 4/5/2024 Family Trouble S Center Hwy., Verbally and physically abusing his parents. 1 in custody. 

6:32pm 4/6/2024 Suspicious Incident E Traverse Hwy., Person came into business, asked to walk around the houses, thinks he entered one of them in violation of organic growing rules.

3:44pm 4/7/2024 Motor Assist Leelanau Twp., Called out by 45-22, making contact with two men on a Gator. They are youths, speaking with parents now. Spoke with parents and the 11 year old males. Informed them of the ORV restrictions and they were not allowed to operate on the roadway. 

9:00am 4/8/2024 Citizen Assist Empire Twp., Hired caller to drive truck from Georgia, when he got here he was fired.