Bloomfield Township police logged one arrest under the category “Intimidation/Threat to Bomb” during the week of Oct. 19-25. It was among 38 arrests listed in the department’s weekly crime report.

The entry appears in the report’s summary table. The report provides no further details about the circumstances, location or nature of the threat.

Officers also recorded one arrest on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon. The report provides no further details about that case.

Officers handled 536 calls for service during the week, including 131 traffic stops. They investigated 63 traffic crashes: 31 involving property damage, 11 on private property, nine with personal injuries, seven car-versus-deer collisions and five hit-and-runs.

Driving while license suspended led the arrest categories with 12. Officers also made four arrests each for narcotic possession and narcotic paraphernalia, three for smuggling contraband, three for receiving and concealing stolen property, two for operating while intoxicated and two for retail fraud.

Political sign thefts

Police responded Oct. 22 to the 3000 block of Greentree Road after political campaign signs were stolen from two homes. The thefts occurred between about 10 a.m. Oct. 21 and 7 a.m. Oct. 22, according to the report. Detectives are investigating.

The Greentree Road thefts follow earlier sign-theft complaints in the township. Downtown Publications reported that police had taken complaints about stolen political signs on the 1800 block of Harvest Lane, the 2500 block of Indian Mound Road and the 2700 block of Colonial Trail, with two of those thefts occurring overnight Oct. 13.

Neither account identifies which candidates’ signs were taken.

Retail fraud, thefts

Police said someone stole $570 worth of North Face, Columbia and Nike jackets from Dick’s Sporting Goods at 2105 South Telegraph Road on the evening of Oct. 20. The person entered the store with an empty tote bag, loaded the jackets and fled on foot, according to the report. Detectives are investigating.

At Lifetime Fitness on Telegraph Road, a gym member reported Oct. 21 that two chains valued at $10,000 were stolen from a locker Oct. 20 after the member forgot to retrieve them. A black Rogers Welding trailer was also reported stolen from a construction site on the 50 block of North Berkshire Drive on Oct. 20.

All three cases have been turned over to the Detective Bureau.

Bloomfield Township Police Department Public Information Officer Sean Manor can be reached at 248-433-7724. Residents with information about any of these incidents can call the department at 248-433-7755.