Crime & Safety
Saginaw Man Accused of Swiping Cleaning Woman's Cell Phone
The following information is provided by West Bloomfield Township Police. Arrests and charges do not indicate convictions.
A 29-year-old man from Saginaw faces a felony charge, after telling police that he swiped a cell phone from a cleaning cart Friday at an office building on Haggerty in West Bloomfield.
According to West Bloomfield Township Police Lieutenant Curt Lawson, a woman who was cleaning part of the building left her cell phone on her cart for a short time, and it was gone when she returned. Lawson said the woman spotted a man walking away and called police.
When officers arrived, Lawson said, they spotted a man matching the phone owner's description. As they questioned him and a woman who was with him, the man eventually said he had taken the phone and returned it.
Lawson said the man also faces a misdemeanor charge of providing a false name to a police officer.
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