Crime & Safety
Thousand of Dollars in Construction Tools, Materials Taken from Work Site
The following information was supplied by the White Lake Township Police Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate convictions.
More than $10,000 worth of tools and construction material was taken from the construction site off Elizabeth Lake Road in at least three separate incidents, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to .
Police Lt. Adam Kline said construction material from the construction site was recovered on Tuesday after it fell out of a white pickup truck on Pontiac Lake Road, just northwest of Teggerdine. Kline said police contacted the company that morning and were able to confirm the materials had been taken from the site on Monday.
The owners of the site then called police to report the thefts after discovering toolboxes, tools and steel missing from the site on the mornings of Wednesday and Thursday.
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Items taken include steel pins, toolboxes, electric hammer drills, screw guns and cordless impact guns.
A toolbox belonging to the site was recovered in Pontiac by Oakland County Sheriff's deputies sometime Thursday.
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The incidents remain under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call 248-698-4400.
For questions about this crime report, email brooke.meier@patch.com.
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