Trailer full of equipment stolen from Fowling Warehouse in Ypsilanti Township

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI – Police are investigating the theft of a 16-foot trailer full of equipment from the Fowling Warehouse in Ypsilanti Township.

The trailer was taken from the business at 3050 Washtenaw Ave. at around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.

24, according to Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Derrick Jackson.

Security footage at the business shows men in a U-Haul truck pulling up in a way that left the license plate unable to be seen, Fowling Warehouse owner Scott Brown said. Using a saw, Brown said, they cut through the metal locks, hooked the trailer to the back of their truck and drove off all within about five minutes.

Brown said he and his staff arrived around 11 a.m. and noticed the trailer was gone and called the sheriff’s office.

Police currently have no suspects, and an investigation into the theft is ongoing, Jackson said.

The Fowling Warehouse hosts events centered around the game of fowling — a hybrid of football and bowling.

The goal of the game is to knock the opponents bowling pins down by throwing a football at them.

Brown said the trailer, which he called “the Mobile Fowling Unit,” is used to take equipment for the game from event to event.

Necessary equipment was inside the trailer when it was stolen, he said.

“It’s sort of a beloved trailer,” Brown said. “People know it and they see it coming.

We take it to all the Eastern Michigan football games and we do Fowling across the street from Rynearson Stadium.”

Brown said Fowling Warehouse staff had a “little memorial” for the Mobile Fowling Unit, with pictures of the trailer shown on television screens, captioned “R.I.P.”

“We miss it already,” he said.