Just found this posted on Facebook..... local resident Dave Kosla posted this on his Facebook page earlier today and asked everyone to share it (which is how I came across it). From what he posted, you do have to wonder what exactly the officers were doing... just kind of get the impression that they didn't want to be bothered by this and the paperwork and just kind of blew it off.
Everyone, PLEASE READ AND SHARE THIS. I'm going to do what I can to tell as many people as possible, especially the citizens of Ludington.
This is what happened this morning, to the best of my knowledge.
Sunday, March 31, 2013 (Easter Sunday)
A little background: My family lives on one corner of our block. On our same block, down the street and also on the corner, live my wife’s parents. Their home is a first-floor apartment in a beautiful Victorian mansion that has been converted.
Approximately 9:00 a.m.
My family had just started coming downstairs to eat breakfast and begin getting ready for Easter Mass. My wife noticed a city police car outside the house in which my in-laws live, so she called her mother. A strange man had gone into their entryway (inside the building) through an unlocked outer door and was attempting to enter the locked apartment. My mother-in-law was the only one awake, so she is the one who confronted him and called the police. The man claimed to be looking for his therapist. My father-in-law, brother-in-law, and his oldest daughter (who is a teenager) were also in the home.
The officer (or officers) who showed up never spoke to anyone who lives there. Never asked questions, found out if everyone was alright, took a statement, nothing. Apparently the intruder had left on foot, leaving his vehicle behind. When the police found him, they took him back to his vehicle at the apartment and allowed him to drive away.
Was this man on psychotropic drugs? Illegal drugs? Intoxicated? Did he have a criminal record or a history of violence? Was he armed?
Regardless, he is guilty of trespassing, unlawful entry, and (I would think) attempted forcible entry.
What if our young niece had been the one who found him? What if no one else was awake yet?
What if he comes back? What if he is angry when he does? Why was he not arrested? Why were no questions asked and no statement given? Other than escorting this intruder back to his vehicle so he could conveniently leave the crime scene, why was nothing done by our local police?
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