A dispatcher took a call about a home invasion in progress around 5:17 p.m. yesterday on the 600 block of Ida Maybee Road in Raisinville Township, and by the time it was over, deputies had one suspect in cuffs at the scene and a Michigan State Police K-9 had rooted a second man out of a nearby cornfield. Two men, ages 34 and 40, ended up lodged at the Monroe County Jail.
According to CBS News Detroit, a responding deputy arrived while the break-in was still underway and took one man into custody immediately. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says the deputy who reached the scene, John Bills, spotted a vehicle pulled in behind the home and moved in fast enough to catch the burglary as it was happening, preventing either suspect from getting away clean.
The second man ran off on foot, but he did not get far. A Michigan State Police trooper and service dog found him hiding in a cornfield near the home, per officials cited by CBS Detroit. The sheriff's office identifies the K-9 handler as Trooper Dayfield, whose search through the field ended with the fleeing suspect's capture.
Who Was Arrested
The two men taken into custody were a 34-year-old resident of Belleville, Michigan, and a 40-year-old resident of Toledo, Ohio. Both were booked into the Monroe County Jail following the arrests, CBS Detroit reports.
Raisinville Township sits about 9 miles west of Monroe and roughly 48 miles southwest of Detroit, a rural stretch of Monroe County where cornfields border residential properties. The township covers 48.14 square miles and had 5,903 residents as of the 2020 U.S. Census, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Monroe County's position along the Michigan-Ohio border, with Toledo roughly 25 miles south, helps explain how a Belleville resident and a Toledo resident ended up implicated in the same rural break-in.
Sheriff Asks Public for Tips
Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough is asking anyone with additional information about the home invasion to contact lead investigator Deputy John Bills directly at 734-240-7753. Goodnough took office in 2020 after more than three decades with the agency, starting as a reserve deputy in 1987, per Monroe County government records.
Separately, the sheriff's office detective bureau is fielding tips at 734-240-7738, and anonymous tipsters can also reach Crime Stoppers of Michigan at 1-800-773-2587, the station's report notes. No charges had been formally filed as of the initial report.
What Charges Could Look Like
Formal charges will hinge on details that have not yet been made public, including whether anyone was inside the home during the break-in and whether either suspect was armed. Under Michigan law, First-Degree Home Invasion is a Class B felony carrying up to 20 years in prison and fines up to $5,000 when an intruder breaks in armed or while a resident is lawfully present, according to Shelton Legal Services. Second-Degree Home Invasion, a Class C felony, applies to unarmed break-ins of unoccupied homes and carries up to 15 years and fines up to $3,000.
Home invasions have cropped up repeatedly across Monroe County in recent years. In October 2024, deputies responded to three separate home invasions in a single day at a mobile home community in Monroe Township, leading to an arrest, and in January 2021, deputies arrested a 54-year-old Toledo man following an occupied home invasion and assault in Bedford Township. Hoodline has previously reported on a hostage-taking home invasion arrest and a case where a break-in escalated into a credit union threat and police chase elsewhere in the county.
