The Milan News-Leader
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Police Blotter
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2008
Larceny
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Milan Police Department received a call at 9 a.m. May 1 to report an incident of larceny that had occurred during the night. A woman living on Allen Road had left her van unlocked in the driveway when she arrived home at 10 p.m. the previous evening. The following morning, she noticed that the back of the van was hanging open and that two portable DVD players from inside the van were missing.
There were no immediate suspects in the case, but officers took fingerprints from the van doors and sent them to the crime lab to check for any possible matches.
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A resident of West Second Street called police at approximately 8 p.m. May 1. He and his wife had been out of the country for two weeks and had just returned home. He had attempted to move the couple's three vehicles from where they had been parked on one side of their residence, only to find that the gas tanks of all three were empty.
The man told police he was certain all three had at least a half-tank of gas before he left. The man was unable to provide police with any potential suspects.
Forgery
Milan police were contacted April 25 by the management at a gas station on Dexter Street after a man had passed a counterfeit check at the store. The man had pumped gas and presented the check with his identification. The clerk called the bank to verify the account was in good standing, was told it was and cashed the check. The bank then contacted the station later to explain that while the check's account number was valid, the check itself was a counterfeit. The case remains open.
Ordinance Violation
Police dispatch received multiple calls at approximately 8:30 p.m. May 1 in response to a dog fight between a Labrador retriever and a pit bull terrier behind a residence on Anderson Street. Both dogs lived at the residence, but a neighbor called police during the incident to inform them he had been unable to separate the pit bull, which had bitten the back of the other dog's neck.
The owner of the dogs produced the proper vaccination and registration paperwork and admitted they had gotten loose once. She was advised that allowing the dogs to break loose and keeping all three in the same house were violations of the city's dog ordinance.
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