Royal Oak man, woman arrested with narcotics

Police arrested a man and a woman for outstanding warrants and drug possession Tuesday after the man was involved in an attempted shoplifting at a gas station. Police were called to the BP gas station near 12 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue around 6:30 p.m. The man, 63, of Royal Oak had tried shoplifting some items at the station a day earlier. When he returned Tuesday an employee called police. The man fled across the street near the National Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church. Officers began to look for him when they recognized a Royal Oak woman, 47, from an earlier arrest. She was in the area with the man police were looking for. Police said the woman had a small amount of heroin, prescription pills and drug paraphernalia with her. She was also wanted on a warrant in Rochester. When police came upon the man nearby he was arrested for an outstanding misdemeanor warrant and possessing an opioid pill.

License plates taken from cars

Two Royal Oak women reported they noticed license plates missing from their cars April 21. A woman in the 1200 block of Morse Avenue contacted police when she saw her plate missing after making trips to Troy and Farmington Hills. The other woman, who lives in the 3300 block of Coolidge Highway, called police about 10 p.m. and reported her plate was missing. Officers inspected the woman’s vehicle and said someone had forced the license plate off the car. License plates are usually stolen by someone who lacks a plate for their vehicle, or wants to use it for a vehicle to be used in a crime, police said. Other times license plates come loose from a vehicle and fall off, police said.