A man who dined at Ale Mary’s, 316 S. Main Street, noticed his Cartier diamond sunglasses were missing after he set them down to eat lunch at the bar — surveillance video later showed what happened to them.

He contacted police about the incident on May 22. He told police he noticed his pricey shades missing and thought an employee may have taken the glasses when they cleared away his dishes and napkins.

Royal Oak police on Friday reviewed surveillance video of the incident.

“A wait staff person picked up the napkins and things from the bar and threw the sunglasses in a garbage container,” said Royal Oak police Lt. Albert Carter. “The restaurant is reimbursing him for the cost of the sunglasses.”

A Detroit woman, 34, stole a can of OFF bug repellant from CVS, 30900 Woodward Ave. but balked when she was caught and a couple of employees tried to take it back.

“When the employees approached her she tried to hit them with a cane broken into two pieces,” said Lt. Albert Carter.

Police were called and the woman fled the store.

Officers found her outside the Woodward Corners Market on the other side of Woodward and she was arrested.

The woman has had problems at the CVS store before and was banned from entering the business.

She is facing charges of trespassing and shoplifting. At the police station she said she would  seek a restraining order against a detective, his family and the whole police department.

A Detroit man, 32, was arrested at Beaumont Hospital, 3601 W. 13 Mile Road, after police said he refused to leave the hospital.

The man had been at the hospital the day before and tried to enter, and was told to leave.

When he returned May 22, he refused multiple requests from security to leave.

Police arrived, but the man still wouldn’t leave. 

It turned out the man was wanted on warrants in Taylor and is a parolee.

Records show the man served time in prison for felony assault, two home invasions, and felony firearm possession.

Thieves sawed catalytic converters from two vehicles and got away before the thefts were discovered.

A man in an apartment complex in the 400 block of West 13 Mile Road called police about 5 a.m. May 20. He heard sawing sounds and went outside to find the converter had just been stolen from a neighbor’s Honda SUV. 

He told police he saw a dark colored pickup truck leave the parking lot when he went outside.

The next day around noon, a woman in the 3200 block of Prairie found the catalytic converter was missing from her Ford Focus after she left it parked on the street in front of her house for a few days.

Someone broke out a window on a backhoe that is one of the many pieces of construction equipment being used to repave Main Street in the downtown.

The backhoe was vandalized some time overnight and the damage was discovered around 8 a.m. May 22.

The estimated cost of fixing the window is $1,200.

– Mike McConnell, Tribune staff writer

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