Neighborhood watch incident - Aug 25, 2011

I was riding my bicycle looking for streetlight outages at 10:40 PM on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011, when I noticed an older model, light colored Jeep Liberty (Michigan License Plate BJP-2523) with one teenaged male occupant inside that was parked next to the open field on Lexington West between North Central Park and Lexington South. As I approached, I heard several voices coming across the open field from the vicinity of the berm near the west edge of our property. I stopped my bike and shined my flashlight towards the berm, where I observed one male teenager walking slowly towards the vehicle. The occupant of the vehicle told me that his friend needed to relieve himself and I replied that I heard multiple voices and I wasn't buying his story. I then shouted out instructions for all of the persons on the berm to approach their vehicle and leave our property or I would call the police and have them cited for trespassing. With my flashlight I then noticed two more male teenagers quickly moving away from me along the top of the berm behind 49927-49943 Lexington West and shouted for them to stop and come out to the street and leave immediately, which they all did. They only said that they were not doing anything wrong but offered no other explanations for their presence on the rear yards of our property.

Please keep a lookout for this vehicle and any other suspicious cars or people wandering around our property - particularly after sunset. If you see something suspicious, call the police and let me know about it so I can keep track of these incidents.

UPDATE - Aug. 27th: I've been informed that this was at least the second time in the past week that a similar-looking Jeep Liberty has been parked there. A larger SUV has also been observed parked near there with its motor running. A few days ago at dusk, four teenagers were observed riding their bikes across that open field and up to the berm and then back down to the street.