City of Whitehall
July 11th
At approximately 1:58pm on-duty staff was contacted by phone by a subject wanting a wellbeing check done on his daughter, a 20-year-old from Virginia, who was possibly staying with a 21-year-old male subject in the 300 block of S. Livingston St. Officers responded the involved location and attempted to contact the owner of the residence. No answer was received at the door. Further the responding officer spoke with a party walking across the street who frequented the area involved and she advised that she was only aware of the 51-year-old homeowner staying at the location and had not observed any female subjects there.
While on regular patrol at 5:29pm on-duty staff was contacted and requested to respond to the 900 block of Lakeview St. on a report of a stolen vehicle. Upon arrival to the scene officers learned the vehicle was not actually stolen and was a jointly registered vehicle between two parties and the other party involved had picked up the vehicle. No additional follow up as the matter is considered a civil dispute.
July 12th
Police department staff responded at 8:19am to the 300 block of E. Colby St. to assist the White Lake Fire Authority with a possible structure fire. Upon police department staff arrival, it was learned the incident was a small grease fire and the fire had been extinguished.
July 13th
Officers were called to the 600 block of E. River St. at 9:39pm to assist White Lake Fire Authority staff with a 58-year-old male subject who needed assistance getting into his home and into bed. Fire staff and PD staff assisted the subject as needed and then cleared.
July 14th
At approximately 12:28pm officers were called to the 900 block of E. Lewis St. for a report of a subject trespassing on the property. Officers located several items of personal property that looked as if a subject had set up a small homeless camp in the woods. While examining the camp area, the involved trespasser, a 46-year-old male subject from Montague Township, walked up to officers. He denied living in the wooded area and stated he was just temporarily leaving his property there while he ran to the dollar store. The subject was advised to pick up his property, leave the area and not trespass at the location again.
While officers were on regular patrol at 6:38pm they received a tip of a subject with outstanding warrant who was currently in the 100 block of W. Colby St. The involved officer and an assisting officer from Montague Police Department went to the involved location and located the offender, a 21-year-old male subject from Laketon Township and took him into custody on the outstanding warrant misdemeanor warrant for driving under the influence of alcohol. On duty staff then transported the offender to the Muskegon County Jail and lodged him on the outstanding warrant.
July 15th
Office staff received a call from a reporting party at 2:10pm that they had observed a suspicious grocery cart was hanging out in the 700 block of Livingston St. The assigned officer located the offending grocery cart and took note that the grocery cart, Dollar General model, had been made into a makeshift grill stand with an old grill attached. Officers were able to separate the grill stand from it’s grocery cart base and return the still functional grocery cart back to Dollar General.
At 1:46pm on-duty staff received information from an APS (Adult Protective Services) referral that a 61-year-old male subject residing with an 87-year-old female subject in the 300 block of E. Lewis St. was throwing the medication belong to the 87-year-old female subject in the trash. Arrangements were made with other family members to have a third party keep the medication in a secure location and only hand it out to the 87-year-old female as needed, so the 61-year-old subject would not throw it away.
July 16th
While on regular patrol at 7:09pm on-duty officers were called to the 100 block of S. Lake St. to assist the Muskegon County Marine patrol with maritime knot tying, as they were towing a boat into the White Lake Municipal Marina. The on-duty officer used his extensive knowledge of the rope bending to apply the appropriate knots to the dock and boat. Once the sailboat was secured, the Muskegon County Marine patrol marveled at the beauty of the knots applied and then went on their way to watch the sunset over the White Lake Channel.
City of Whitehall Police Reports: 7/1 – 7/8
