© Jerimiah J. Brown

A worrisome spate of robberies

Crimes of opportunity

by Jan Schlain

posted 12/1/2010

That's what AAPD chief Barnett Jones calls the recent rash of armed robberies at local businesses. Between the stickups at Schlanderer's jewelry store, a second-floor marijuana clinic downtown, the Bank of America on Eisenhower, and the Lake Trust Credit Union on Packard, "red alerts" from the AAPD and school lockdowns seemed to be coming almost weekly this

Government, business, environment, the U-M, and more.