Bloomfield Township Store Employees Help Suspect Load Stolen Flooring: Police

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI — The Lowe’s home improvement store at 1801 Telegraph Road has been through a rough few days, including an incident last week in which a suspect got away with more than $2,500 worth of hardwood flooring that store employees helped him load, the Bloomfield Township Police Department said in a news release.

As he was leaving the store with a cart filled with boxes filled with hardwood flooring on the evening of Oct. 12, the suspect told store employees he had already paid for the flooring, according to the release. The suspect allegedly loaded his pickup — a dark-colored, new model GMC extended cab pickup — and then returned the empty cart to the store and asked employees to help him with another pallet of flooring.

The employees helped him load the cart a second time and then accompanied the suspect, a younger white male with brown hair, to the pickup and helped him load it into the bed of the vehicle, police said.

He left, and a store loss prevention officer discovered that the suspect hadn’t paid for any of the merchandise. The theft was one of three reported to Bloomfield Township police on Oct. 17.

Also on Oct. 12, police said a loss prevention officer reported seeing a suspect enter the store and put a sump pump onto a cart, exchange it for store credit at the customer service desk, and then buy additional items with the credit, valued t $168. The suspect, a black male, left in a blue and white pickup, police said.

Finally, police said a loss prevention officer reported that around 7 p.m. on Oct. 16, a suspect entered the store with an empty cart, loaded it with copper wiring and attempted to “return” it for a refund,. The suspect refused to provide identification and the refund was denied, but a store employee gave the wiring back to the male, who put it back in his cart and left the store without paying for it. The wiring was valued at about $300.

The suspect in that incident is a white male, described as young, thin and tall, and driving a newer model Ford escape.

Anyone with information about any of the incidents is asked to call Bloomfield Township police t (248) 433-7755.

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