Crime & Safety

2016 Has to Get Better for This Guy

A woman awoke about 3:45 a.m. on New Year's Day to find a strange man standing in her living room and her door damaged.

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FARMINGTON HILLS, MI – The new year didn’t start out well for a 35-year-old Warren man, according to a Farmington Hills police report.

First, he kicked in the door to an apartment on Country Circle around 3:45 a.m. on Jan. 1, awaking the female resident who was surprised to see a tall white man in a suit standing in her living room, according to a report by The Farmington Observer.

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She reportedly told him to get out, and he did.

She called the police, who reportedly saw someone matching his description in the back seat of a car as it passed by the apartment. They stopped the driver, who said the guy was a stranger. He was lost, and he was just doing the guy a favor by giving him a lift to his friend’s apartment.

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The man reportedly told police that he had been at a New Year’s Eve party at a Novi hotel and took an Uber car to Farmington Hills, where his friend lives. The key the friend gave him didn’t work, he said, so he kicked in the door after standing outside in the cold for about 45 minutes.

The man had a blood alcohol content of 0.13 percent, according to preliminary breath tests.

He was charged with entering without permission. The woman’s apartment door sustained unspecified damage.

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