Recent actions by law enforcement agencies in Northeast Michigan. This has been only lightly edited.

MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

March 7-20

MONTMORENCY COUNTY

CO Dan Liestenfeltz assisted the Montmorency County Sheriff’s Department with a home invasion and domestic assault in progress. CO Liestenfeltz and a Montmorency County Sheriff’s deputy arrived on scene and discovered the suspect had fled the area. The victim was uninjured, and the suspect was unable to be located. The investigation is ongoing and being handled by the Montmorency County Sheriff’s Department.

CO Dan Liestenfeltz assisted the Montmorency County Sheriff’s Department with a vehicle that had caught fire while driving down the road. CO Liestenfeltz performed traffic control while the fire department extinguished the fire. No one was injured in the incident.

CO Sidney Collins was on patrol in Montmorency County when a lost dog was found at an ORV parking area. CO Collins responded to the parking area and found the dog to be lying in a pile of food. It appears the dog had escaped its owner earlier in the day, found the food, ate too much, and laid down. CO Collins was able to locate the owner and return the dog.

CO Sidney Collins assisted DNR fire personnel in finding a wildfire in Montmorency County. Once the fire was found, CO Collins and the DNR fire supervisor noticed the landowners were very out of breath and did not look medically well. The ambulance was unable to respond back to the remote cabin, so CO Collins transported a patient to the ambulance, where she was treated and released.

ALPENA COUNTY

CO Sheppard responded to reports of a large fire burning in Alpena County. Burning was currently prohibited. When CO Sheppard arrived, he contacted two people who were operating tractors to push debris into the fire. CO Sheppard spoke to the landowner. CO Sheppard advised him that burning was prohibited at that time due to dry conditions. CO Sheppard further instructed the subject how to look up the burn status on the DNR website. CO Sheppard issued a ticket for burning without a permit.

CO Jessie Curtis had received a complaint of a brush fire in Alpena County that was unattended on a day when burn permits were not being issued. CO Curtis responded to the location and after locating the landowner, issued a ticket for burning without a permit and a warning for leaving the fire unattended.