Grand Rapids Police Department · Request for information

Do You Know
This Guy?

Do you recognize this man? He is seen on video damaging gas tank covers and slashing tires on multiple vehicles along Ionia Av NW near downtown in the early morning of June 30, 2019.

The ask

Do you recognize this man?

Anyone who knows who he is, or where he was on the morning of June 30, 2019, can help an investigation into a series of vandalism incidents along Ionia Av NW.

A tip does not have to be a certainty. A description, a place, a car, or even a “it might be him” is worth a phone call.

Call the police (616) 456-3400

Two views of the same man. On the left he is on foot beside a parked car, wearing a dark short-sleeve T-shirt, dark shorts and open sandals. On the right is a close crop of his face.
Two views of the man. If you have seen him in person, a still of this quality is usually enough for an investigator to work from.

Where to send a tip

Where to send a tip

Every route below reaches the Grand Rapids Police. One is the department’s own non-emergency line, the other takes anonymous tips.

  • Grand Rapids Police

    Non-emergency line

    The department’s general line for reports and tips. Ask to be put through to the detective working this case.

    (616) 456-3400

  • Anonymous

    Silent Observer

    Grand Rapids’ anonymous tip line. No name, no callback, no trace.

    (616) 774-2345

  • Online

    Silent Observer web

    Prefer to type it? The same anonymous line has an online form.

    silentobserver.org

Not sure it is him? Call anyway. A tip that turns out to be the wrong person costs a detective a few minutes. A tip nobody makes leaves the case exactly where it was.

Grand Rapids Police Department

General contact details for the department, if you need to follow up or reach someone other than the tip line.

Emergency
911 — for anything in progress or urgent
Non-emergency
(616) 456-3400 — reports, tips and general questions
Headquarters
1 Monroe Center NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Email
GRPDinfo@grcity.us — general inquiries
Website
grandrapidsmi.gov/departments/police-department

Evidence

Surveillance photographs

Eight stills recovered from security cameras. Select one to view it larger. If you recognize the man in a photograph but not in the video — or the other way round — that is still a useful distinction to report.

Evidence

Surveillance video

Six clips of the same incident. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you choose a clip — the thumbnails below are served from this site.

  • Clip 1 — walking the sidewalk past parked cars.

  • Clip 2 — moving along Ionia Av NW.

  • Clip 3 — approaching a group of parked vehicles.

  • Clip 4 — at the rear of a vehicle.

  • Clip 5 — leaving the vehicle and continuing on foot.

  • Clip 6 — walking away from the camera.

Also posted by Grand Rapids Police on Facebook. The original request for information, including their own footage, is on the department’s Facebook page — it lives on a third-party site, so it is linked here rather than embedded.

Grand Rapids Police — post of 30 June 2019 facebook.com/GrandRapidsPD

Background

What happened

In the early morning of Sunday, June 30, 2019, a man was recorded on camera damaging gas tank covers and slashing tires on multiple vehicles along Ionia Av NW near downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. The footage was circulated to the public in the hope that someone would recognize him.

What he looks like

These are the details that hold consistent across every photograph and video frame published here. Treat them as a starting point rather than a checklist — a partial match is still worth reporting.

Subject
An adult man, on foot and unaccompanied in every frame published here.
Top
A dark short-sleeve T-shirt — reads as navy or black depending on the camera.
Bottom
Dark shorts, ending above the knee.
Footwear
Open sandals or slip-on footwear, rather than closed shoes.
Carrying
Nothing visible in his hands in most of the frames.
  1. Approx. 4:00am

    The incident begins along Ionia Av NW, in the early morning hours.

  2. Early morning

    Several vehicles are damaged — gas tank covers broken and tires slashed.

  3. 30 June 2019

    Grand Rapids Police publish the photographs and video and ask the public to identify him.

  4. Since

    Tips are still being received by the Grand Rapids Police and by Silent Observer.

Surveillance photograph