Police & Fire: Pizza delivery driver robbed
ARMED ROBBERY: Calhoun County Sheriff Department deputies are looking for at least two young men accused of robbing a pizza delivery driver in Springfield on Sunday. Deputies reported the robbery at 10:07 p.m. in the 800 block of Tecumseh Road about two blocks west of Dickman Road. The driver had just made a delivery and was pulling out of an apartment complex parking lot and said he stopped when a young man stepped into the roadway in front of his car and a second man opened the passenger door of the driver s vehicle and pointed a handgun at him. The robber demanded money and took the driver s car keys before both men fled north from the scene with two or three others. Deputies said the robbers obtained a small amount of cash and dropped the driver s keys inside the car. Deputies and officers from the Battle Creek Police Department searched the area but the robbers were not located. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff s d
APARTMENT FIRE: Residents of 11 units at Bailey Park Apartments, 1417 Capital Ave. N.E. were displaced by a fire reported just before 9 p.m. Friday. Pennfield Township Fire Chief Tim Smith said it appears the fire began on a second floor outside balcony in building 1411 and burned up the side of the building and into the attic. When the first firefighters arrived, we had fire showing up the outside of the building and into the eaves and this side of the roof, Smith said. Alex Lee Tafoya and Ceanna Long live in the building and saw the fire as they returned home. A chair was in flames, Long said. She called 911 and Tafoya went inside and woke the woman in the second floor apartment. She didn t know, Tafoya said. Other residents said people were shouting fire inside the building as people evacuated. Smith said no injuries were reported. A third-floor apartment which was vacant sustained the most fire damage. Other apartments had smoke and water damage. Residents in the 12 apartm