Local police take aim at carjackings - Canton Public Library

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OAE Thursday, September 5. 1991
Here are some ways
to avoid carjacking
The following are tips lo follow
to steer cfear of becoming the next
carjacking victim.
• When you make a fast food
order close your windows between
time you make the order and get
tbe food
"People will get in that way, said
Lt Sandy Milter, director of -the
Western Wayne County auto theft
teani.
"People should be aware that
there very possibly is more than
one subject involved," she said. "In
most cases there is."
• Most important, she said, is
"give it up. It's just a piece of metal"
• Drivers also should be more
aware of locking their cars. -
"In many of the cases the doors
are unlocked and they get in
through the passenger doors," MT
ler said "If people see someooe
hurriedly approaching the car they
should drive away. They shouldn't
sit there and wait for the person to
•PS* 0 ""*-" ~
• Don't drive in the right lane
when, you have" to stop for traffic
signals. It's easier and quicker for
thieves to break-in.
• Dont leave your keys unattended
in your vehicle.
"II people stop at an ATM (Automatic
Teller Machine) or any other
place they shouldn't leave the keys
in the car," she said.
Double-decker bus
is all stressed-out
It's a bloody shame.
The city's authentic English double-decker
bus won't be running daring
this year's Fall Festival — and
may never run again.
"The gear conversion box broke,"
said assistant city manager Paul
Sin cock, adding the break was due to
stress.
Saying that the red bus is more
than 30 years old and would rrequire
several thousand dollars to fix, Sincock
added, "At this time were not
completing repairs."
"We're coming, into the winter
season," be said, adding the dtyowned
bus isnot heated.
Sincock said that over the winter
the city administration would review
costs to fix and maintain the bus,
and present the information to tbe
city commission.
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On Friday alone, police responded to
70 cells, said Pat Nemecek, Canton
police information officer.
tfy ANOTHER reported incident
thi« weekend, a 20-year-old Canton
man was arrested after an incident
at his ex-girlfriend's residence at
Sloney Brook Apartments.
When he reportedly knocked on
her door at 3 a.m. she answered and
told him to leave.
He asked her if someone was with
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his ex-girlfriend's companion with
his fists and then went to the kitchen
where be found two knives.
He reportedly told the other man
that he was going to kill him and
lunged at hirna couple of times with
the knives.
The woman's companion ran out
the door and her ex-boyfriend ran after
him cutting the screen with the
knife as~£he man ran to his own unit
in the same apartment complex, police
reported.
Tbe man called police, who re-
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portedly found tbe suspect in his exgirlfriendTs
apartment. No 06e was
reported hurt and the ex-boyfriend
was arrested.
ANOTHER MAN was arrested
this weekend for possession of a dan
gerous weapon and assault of a police
officer after police were called
out on a report of a fight between a
man and woman.
The suspect was outside the residence
when police arrived, Nemecek
said. Tbey told him to hold his hands
over his bead, however, be refused
'and tried to re-enter tbe bouse. Police
apprehended him, searched him
and discovered a revolver.
While being restrained tbe man allegedly
kicked the officer in the
groin.
Tbe 32-year-old Ann Arbor suspect
was arrested on two charges: possession
of a dangerous weapon and assault
of a police offficer.
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Cutting edge
Barbers have seen many changes.
By M.S. Dillon
staff writer
FROM THE huge front window
of his Plymouth barber
shop, Jim Powers has
watched bulldozers plow
through the center of homes that 30
years ago lined Main Street. He's
seen banks and businesses crop up in
their places, and on tbe outskirts of
town, subdivisions replace farms
like tbe one he grew up on in Canton
"I BOUGHT THIS place when I
was in my 20s in 1962 Now I'm the
same age as the old man who sold it
to me," said Powers. "I can't believe
where the years have gone "
For some of the 700 folks who regularly
frequent Jim's Barber Shop at
5SO Main Si., the idea is simply to
get a haircut. But for many, a trip to
the barber means a cut and maybe a
shave, A visit with old friends, and an
update on tbe latest.
Like a tonic soothing the hard reality
of time's passage, old friendships
are renewed and nurtured over
Powers' turn-of-the-century porce-
Carvel
Bentley geta
hia hair cut
by a "kid" he
once taught
in school.
Bentley, who
came to
Plymouth in
1929, retired
from
Plymouth-
Canton
Communnity
Schools aa a
principal in
1969.
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lain and leather barber chairs.
Eight-thirty a m. Tuesday found
Powers, along with barbers Phil
Fitzgerald and Bob Dupuis, at work
after the long Labor Day weekend
One of the day's first clients was
Carvel Bentley. a retired teacher
and principal who taught Powers as
well as Don Thompson, the man in
Powers' chair Tuesday morning.
"I come here because it's convenient.
and I've known these fellows
for years.'' said Bentley, who moved
to Plymouth in 1929 from Ypsilanti.
" "I taught Jim way back, and I
taught the fellow in his chair," he
added, making his way with a Cane
down the uneven wooden steps.
"Carvel Bentley has a lot of tales
to tell," Powers said after he left.
"He helped shape up a lot of kids."
"I HAD A LOT of good teachers
who didn't deserve a guy like me,"
said Thompson with a laugh. "I'm almost
embarrassed to see them . "
The conversation turned to an upcoming
school reunion and the
healthy herd of deer up north.
"It looks like it's going to be a
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Jim Power* and Don Thompson have been pala aince they were klda
Barber Phil Fitzgerald, better known as "Fitz," also ia a professional photographer.
good deer season this year," said
Thompson, who lives near Traverse
City and was in Plymouth visiting
his 87-year-old dad
"The other day I must have seen ,
20 deer out in my alfalfa fields Now
I understand why I haven't had any
blossoms in the whole 12 acres."
Thompson said it was the Powers
who first took him up north when the
two were kids
"Jim and I used to run around together
The first time I went up
north, his mom and dad took me I
love to hunt and fish, and I remember
saying, 'Some day I'm going to
live up here," " said Thompson, who
teaches - vocational education at
Northwestern Michigan College.
"I enjoy walking around Plymouth.
But the fields where I hunted
pheasants have all turned to subdivisions
and homes Time marches on,
things change There's a little bit of
the old Plymouth still around When
I come here. I get to set and visit for
awhile, and I get to catch up on information
about everyone "
Thompson's hunting and fishing
tales aren't lost on Powers Next to
his mirror hangs a phbto with the
caption. "Fish and Feel Fit at Reelfoot
Lake."
PO WEIRS, FITZGERALD and Dupuis
agree a" barber needs to be a
people person.
"First you greet people, then you
find out what their problem is," said
Dupuis
"I had a guy osce tell me, I save
souls.' " said Powers "I thought. Oh
my gosh, I'm going to get a sermon '
"1 asked him what church he was
with, and he said, 'I'm a cobbler I
save soles' "
Powers recalled a day in 1968
when a new customer walked in.
"He came in from Wayne for a
haircut and told me he'd grown up in
this house," said Powers, whose
frame building is a converted residence
Powers still rents out the
shop's second-story apartment
"He told me his dad built this
place ifi the fall of 1899, and that his
family moved in here Thansgiving
Day. 1900
"He said this used to be a fancyplace.
with a three-holer out back "
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