Police Investigating Possible Link Between SCS, Roseville Window Smashings

St. Clair Shores police are investigating a possible connection between a rash of window smashings in the city and a group teens arrested and charged for similar incidents in Roseville.

Three teens were charged Monday in connection with 53 car windows smashed in Roseville. A 13-year-old girl who was with the young men has not been charged.

"We are investigating if there is a link," said St. Clair Shores Police Sgt. David Centala.

St. Clair Shores police reported that : the rear window of a mini-van on Waterloo street; the rear window of an SUV on Arrowhead street; the rear window of a car on Hoffman; the rear window of another SUV on Tanglewood street; and the driver's side window of a car on Raymond.

Police had been on alert early Saturday morning after receiving reports of windows being smashed in Roseville. St. Clair Shores police spotted a vehicle that matched the witness' description of the allegedly truck used in the incidents in the Frazho and Gratiot area of Roseville.

St. Clair Shores police stopped the vehicle in the area of 11 Mile and I-94.

After a short investigation, the teens were turned over to Roseville police.

At least 53 separate vehicles were allegedly damaged by these teens according to Roseville Dept. Chief James Berlin. He reported that the teens took turns hanging outside their vehicle and swinging a baseball bat at the front and back windshields, along with side mirrors, of parked cars.

It is estimated the teens allegedly caused more than $25,000 in damage.

The 15- and 16-year-old boys from St. Clair Shores were arraigned on malicious destruction of property charges in the Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center. The boys are minors and therefore are not being named. They are currently being held in the Macomb County Youth Home without bond.

The third teen, Maverick James Ulbrich, 17, of St. Clair Shores, was arraigned Monday before 39th District Court Judge Joseph Boedeker on one count of malicious destruction of property over $20,000, which is a 10-year felony charge.

Berlin said the Macomb County Prosecutors Office decided to aggregate all of the individual acts of destruction into one charge, creating the more serious felony charge.

Ulbrich is being held on a $25,000 bond will have a preliminary exam on Nov. 24. The 13-year-old girl was released to her parents late Saturday morning.