By Bill Petzold
Editor
CARO — Early Thanksgiving morning — while most of the world was asleep — Michelle Oaks was making sure folks could grab their morning newspaper.
Oaks lives halfway between Vassar and Caro and has been delivering The Saginaw News and The Bay City Times for about seven months now. Because of the added weight of the Black Friday circulars in Thursday’s newspaper, she had to drop off the bundled newsstand copies first, including a delivery to the Patriot Party Mart in downtown Caro. But, sometime between 5 a.m. when Oaks dropped off the newspapers and 7 a.m. when someone arrived at the Patriot — 51 copies of the newspaper went missing.
Oaks said she is on the hook for the cost of those 51 newspapers at $2 a pop, but can’t figure out why anyone would steal 51 newspapers.
“I just can’t get over that — there’s no coupons,” Oaks said. “They just have ads, and somebody took them. I can’t see 51 people coming to take a paper. Hopefully someone saw something and we can get this straightened out. I really can’t afford it.”
Caro Police Deparmtent officer Ronald Suranye said he’s never heard of the theft of newspapers in Caro.
“I’ve been here a long time and never had that happen,” Suranye said. “There’s no suspects or anything. There were five (newspapers) in a bundle, so they took 10 bundles plus one extra. Only in Caro — and they didn’t touch The Bay City Times, those were sitting there too. None of them were taken.”
Those with information are asked to contact the Caro Police Department at (989) 673-2402.