HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Two men from Coloma are in the Van Buren County Jail after stealing equipment from sheds and attempting to hide from deputies inside a nearby lake near Decatur.
Authorities were called to the 46000 block of West Drive near 86th Avenue in Hamilton Township around 4:15 a.m. Sunday after a caller reported a suspicious vehicle possibly stuck in a yard and revving its engine at a vacant home.
First responders located the vehicle stuck in the driveway and then found two men hiding in the Lake of the Woods channel just behind the house.
The subjects were ordered out of the water and detained.
Deputies say the two are believed to have broken into two nearby sheds and took several hundred dollars’ worth of tools, lawn equipment and fishing equipment.
The items were found stashed near the scene. The suspects, identified as a 27-year-old man and a 28-year-old man both from Coloma, are now awaiting arraignment.
