Crime & Safety

Phone Stolen When Man Leaves Fast-Food Line to Fight: Police

Man left restaurant to fight man who stood too close to his girlfriend; when he returned, his iPhone 6 had been stolen, police said.

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TROY, MI – An argument involving a knife that began in a fast-food restaurant in Troy spilled out into the parking lot after a man standing in line apparently stood too close in line to the victim’s girlfriend early Friday morning.

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Troy police said the victim confronted the suspect as they stood in line at a Taco Bell restaurant at 41167 Dequindre Road about 12:48 a.m. on Friday. They went outside to fight, and when the victim returned, his Apple iPhone 6 was missing.

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“The subject asked the victim to step outside to settle this and the victim obliged,” police said in a news release. “When the victim got outside, the subject went to his late-90s Dodge Caravan and retrieved a knife, holding it in his right hand. The victim told the subject to put the knife away and they’d still fight.”

At that point, the suspect got into his car and left, but “not before circling the parking lot three times,” police said.

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When the victim went back to the restaurant to eat his meal, he realized that his phone had been stolen. He told police he thinks he left it on the countertop before going outside to fight.

He blamed the theft on some youths who were standing behind him in line, according to police.

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