A man called Van Buren Township emergency dispatch at 2:20 a.m., Aug. 16, to report he had just been robbed at gunpoint.
Van Buren Township Deputy Chief Joshua Monte said the reported robbery occurred at the Red Oak Inn (former Red Roof Inn) on the North I-94 Service Drive.
He said a male caller reported that he had visited a female friend in an unknown room at the hotel. As he was walking back to his room at the hotel, an unidentified male subject produced a handgun and instructed him to empty his pockets. The male victim said he was robbed of cash and a phone.
Deputy Chief Monte said detectives are following up with the hotel and reviewing any available video.
- Previous story Rotary holds raffle instead of Duck race due to rainstorm
- Next story VBT Environmental Commission meets for first time in 11 months
4 Comments
Weather
This is why this motel needs to be shut down. When it was red roof it was a magnet for crime and drugs. Now as red oak it’s even worse. It needs to be shut down!
What an EMBARRASSMENT to Belleville. The city needs to work to shut places like this down that knowingly cause harm and crime to our community and it’s people. This is unacceptable. The owners of this slum should be ashamed and charged.
They wont shut it down the TWP. board are to lazy even if the clerk says he wants VBT to a premier community! If he even knows what that is! The TWP. is going to crap quick I have lived here my whole life and this is the worst I have ever seen. Our elected official’s are a joke and Miller wants to help out at a state level give me a break your a joke!
Why is everybody blaming the motel for the crime and not the person committing the crime? If the dude was robbed at Walmart or Diamond Back, should we shut that down? Everybody is harping over the motel, but welcoming the pot shops to our city.