Armed Robbers Pose as Utility Workers in Michigan

By Jenn Jacques

“There’s a person in my house, he pulled a gun on me. I’ve never seen this person before!”

911 calls like this aren’t uncommon, but the 37-year old homeowner who placed it experienced just how an ordinary interaction could be anything but.

“He rang the doorbell, he looked through my window and I’m like ‘Who is it?’ and he’s like ‘We had a gas leak in the neighborhood’ and he said that he was from the gas company,” the woman told the dispatcher.

The unidentified black man was wearing a bright green reflective vest when he came to the house posing as a utility worker. Armed with a handgun, he then forcefully gained entry into her upscale neighborhood home north of Detroit, the Michigan. The homeowner ran to her bedroom on the second floor and called 911.

The woman’s mother was also in the home and used a kitchen knife to defend herself and her daughter from the armed intruder. When confronted with the blade-weilding woman, the armed intruder fled the home and escaped.

This was the third reported incident of armed robbers posing as a utility worker since February, adding to other reports in nearby Eastpointe and Ecorse.

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