Officers respond to trespassing at Ransom Street Music building
On Thursday, June 6 at 7:20 a.m. Grand Rapids Community College Police officers responded to the rear of the GRCC Music Building on Ransom Street to investigate a report of a person with a bicycle dumping his personal trash and going through the dumpster of the rear building. Upon meeting with the individual one of the officers asked what he was doing, the man stated he was looking for returnables. The officer asked the man if he was a student, when the man stated he was not, the officer advised him he was on public property. After the man produced a Washington state driver’s license a file check revealed multiple unconfirmed warrants out of Washington and Tennessee but they were all out of pickup range so the officers let the man off with a warning.
Sleeping trespasser ejected from outside the Music Building
On Tuesday, June 11 at around 6:37 a.m. an officer was searching the area between the Learning Resource Center and Music Building due to a call box alarm where the officer noticed a person sleeping on the ground against the south wall of the Music Building, the officer walked up to the person and woke him up. Upon being awoken the officer asked for the man’s identification, and the man was identified. After this, the officer asked the man if he was a student, upon the man stating he wasn’t the officer warned him he was trespassing and allowed him to leave.
Malicious destruction of property at College Park Plaza
On Tuesday, June 11 at 6:42 a.m. two officers were dispatched to the lower parking lot of College Park Plaza on a report of malicious destruction of property. Upon arriving at the scene the officers found the victim and vehicle as well as a large pile of trash strewn about the ground near the dumpster.
The officer made contact with the victim and was able to identify the damaged property as an orange 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe. The victim stated he had parked his vehicle on June 10 at around 9:30 p.m. He stated between 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. he had brought trash out to the dumpster and there was nothing on the ground. He left work on Tuesday at 6:10 a.m. when he noticed the driver-side rear quarter panel and his rear windshield wiper had been damaged. He also stated that there was trash thrown on the ground near the dumpster. The officer observed the damage including a shoe print on the quarter panel near the gas tank and there was a dent around the size of a basketball on said panel. The officer also observed that the rear windshield wiper had been broken off and was lying on the ground near the dumpster. The damage to the vehicle was estimated to be about $1,200. After reviewing the security footage, the officer would later discover that at around 1:55 a.m. the suspect appeared in the frame first going through the trash a minute before vandalizing the car, kicking the rear quarter panel with his left foot. He was then seen walking east in the parking lot only to quickly come back and rip off the windshield wiper. He would then discard the wiper, go through the trash once more and pick up a piece of cardboard before leaving at 1:56 a.m.
The officer realized that the suspect was most likely a man the officer had given a verbal trespass warning to that same day on June 10 dressed in the exact same outfit as the suspect, wearing a dark long-sleeved shirt, striped tennis shoes and jeans. The suspect remains at large.
Sleeping trespasser arrested at Bostwick Ave.
On Wednesday, June 12 at 4:14 p.m. two officers were dispatched to Bostwick Ave. on a report of a man sleeping in the East side stairwell of Ramp A. Upon the officers’ arrival, they noticed the man was on his back and sleeping with various items scattered around him. The man did not immediately wake when prompted eventually however he responded appearing to be disoriented. The officers asked the man if he needed medical attention and he said he did not, the officers then asked if he was a student and he said he was not. The man then appeared to start getting irritated with the officers and began to gather his belongings while making remarks under his breath. As he gathered his belongings he attempted to leave without speaking to the officers only for them to stop him informing him he was not free to go. The officer then told him unless he was a student he was not allowed to be on campus. After the man became verbally resistant the officer asked for the man’s name and then ran it through the database and discovered a bench warrant for failure to appear out of Grand Haven’s 20th Circuit Court in Ottawa County. The warrant was valid and so the officer arrested the man without incident.
Trespasser expelled from Lyon Street
On Thursday, June 13 at 12:23 p.m. an officer was dispatched to the GRCC preschool on Lyon Street on a report of a trespasser. Upon arriving the officer found the trespasser, a man lying on a bench outside the building. Upon being asked what he was doing the man simply stated he was homeless and was looking for a place to take a nap. The officer warned him he could not be on GRCC property and let him go with a warning.
Damage to property at Sneden Hall
On Friday, June 21 at 6:37 a.m. an officer was dispatched to the Sneden Hall parking lot on a report that a gate arm had been broken in the west lot, upon arriving the officer would meet with a man who said that around 5:40 a.m. he had found a gate that had been damaged, the gate arm for the westbound lane of the lot was laying across the eastbound lane. The officer reviewed the surveillance video photo, and around 10:18 p.m. the footage showed two people and a young child leaving their apartment and walking to their vehicle on the top of the parking structure, they pulled up to the west gate in their vehicle. First, a woman got out and attempted to lift the gate arm with no success. She got back in the vehicle as a man got out of the driver’s seat and managed to force the gate arm up, throwing it into the eastbound lane. The officer ended up tracking the woman down upon seeing her exiting a van with some young children and the woman offered to pay for the damages.
