Trailer containing thousands of dollars in lawn equipment stolen in Saline

A trailer containing thousands of dollars worth of equipment belonging to a local lawn care business was reported stolen to Saline police this week.

According to the inciden report, the 56-year-old owner of Michlawn Inc. told police that a navy blue equipment trailer with the business’ name painted on the side had been stolen. The theft was reported at 9:58 a.m. Monday and had occurred sometime before that time, the report stated.

The owner told police the business had been closed since before Christmas and he had only come back a few times since then.

The trailer was reported to be worth $2,000, according to the report. Among the items in the trailer were a Case Maxi Sneaker pipe puller, worth $9,000; 100 miscellaneous fittings, pipe, poly pipes and sprinkler heads worth $6,000; two Rainbird sprinkler control clocks worth $400; two Toro HP snowblowers worth $600 and one Hiti hammer drill worth $300, the report stated.

Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to email Detective Don Lupi at dlupi@city-saline.org or call police at 734-429-7911.

Kyle Feldscher covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at kylefeldscher@annarbor.com or you can follow him on Twitter.