By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
WYANDOTTE — Two intoxicated people who had left a bar in the early morning hours of Sept. 25 became paranoid about a missing cell phone, and attempted to track it, using the other person’s cell phone.
Unknown to them, the missing cell phone was under the driver’s seat the entire time, but because GPS search results are only accurate to within a few hundred meters, they didn’t realize that they were attempting to track their own moving vehicle.
That didn’t stop the two from accusing innocent bystanders in the parking lot at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital from stealing the cell phone.
The innocent bystanders, a brother and sister, had gone to the hospital to pick up their mother, who was being discharged. The woman said she had just dropped her brother off at the sidewalk when the cell phone trackers came speeding through the lot, honking their horn, and trying to trap her vehicle with their blue 2018 Jeep Compass.
A man jumped out of the Jeep, chased the brother down, then turned around and went to his sister in her vehicle, reaching inside and demanding his phone, grabbing her as she struggled to get away. The man from the Jeep then grabbed the innocent bystander’s cell phone, which police officers later found in his possession.
The man was arrested for strong-arm robbery, while the woman was arrested for possession of narcotics.