Police have bone to pick with Halloween skeleton thief

While there are no bones about it, an attempted theft in Dearborn Heights caught our attention today, not only because of how the alleged thief was caught, but what specifically they took. Fox 2's Dave Kinchin live from Dearborn Heights with the bizarre details awfully close to Halloween time, but that's precisely where this story started, Dave. Yeah, that's right. And they did not have a skeleton crew in terms of policing to respond to this. In fact, I can tell you that Dearborn Heights had the literal heads up because not only where we are right now, we're at Dearborn Heights PD, but not only was this super close where this all happened, this is where the Home Depot is on Michigan Avenue, literally next door. But take a look at this. We'll go to the video and what you'll see is that the video from the police drone sent to us by Dearborn Heights police shows this woman with what is reported to be $600 worth of huge 12-foot Halloween skeletons allegedly swiped from the Home Depot we just showed you. Now, you can see that the drone locked in on the situation pretty quickly. At one point, you will see the woman appearing to dump the goods in an alley nearby, maybe to come back for them later when the heat is off as the old criminals or alleged criminals used to say not only did Dearborn Heights police have this eye in the sky they also are based next door so they didn't have to go too far to apprehend her but it's another case of police departments using drones to solve crime so we ask people how they feel about police drones taking stuff and getting caught that's their problem they shouldn't have done it a police drone going up how do you feel about that I seen it before and they capture some guys hurting critters at the Rouge there so I like that they shouldn't have done anything stupid I'm really for that so you're for the drones for the drones yes unless they're behind me and then I'm not for it but other than that I think we we got something right over here it's something like hiding or something you can you can find you like anywhere like two seconds so no problem with the police drone no fun we listened to and watched of course the full cut of the video about nine minutes that the police department sent us as we come back live here in Dearborn Heights and we could hear the dispatch call uh the description of the woman also and that's when that drone which may have already been in the air when that call came through started to lock in on the situation again didn't have to fly too far the police department's right next door but it's another case of how drones are being used as first responders responding to a variety of calls we're going to take a look at that tonight on the edge at 11 o'clock many police departments across the state using drones how they're using them that's straight ahead in less than an hour reporting live in Dearborn Heights, Dave Kim, Fox 2 News. Dave, just curious about what may have happened in the moments before we saw this woman dump these big boxes of these skeletons in that field there near the school bus. When she was leaving the store, did she just simply have these that she swiped off the shelves and was walking out of the store and no one checked her receipt? No one checked to see if perhaps she was actually someone who purchased these things? Yeah, it's a big question we were checking into actually did speak with the manager the night manager tonight who didn't really even know about this whole situation it was we actually broke the news to them believe it or believe it not so it's probably a manager of a different shift that may have that information and police are still working on getting some information back to us as well all right our Dave Kinchen for us live tonight Dave thank you