Reporter Suzanne Wangler Arrested

On Nov. 11, employees at the Westborn Market, 27659 Woodward Ave., said they spotted a woman wheeling a shopping cart filled with more than $600 of merchandise out of the store without paying for it around 6:30 p.m. Employees said Suzanne fled in an SUV, leaving the parking lot with the headlights of the vehicle turned off as she traveled south on Woodward, the newspaper reported. Employees told police that the same woman had been at the store on previous occasions trying to take merchandise from the market in Berkley, according to the Daily Tribune. Wangler's attorney said in a statement that the Royal Oak resident is innocent. Former local 4 reporter Suzanne Wangler was arraigned Tuesday on charges that she intended to shoplift a cart full of food from a market on Woodward Avenue. He said police never found any evidence of the groceries in her car and the store admits she never took anything. Employees were able to get the license plate number and police tracked the 1996 gold Lexus SUV to Suzanne Wangler's address. "Ms. Wangler is a longtime, upstanding citizen of Oakland County and we plan to establish her innocence on the allegations," said her attorney, Joseph Cross, in a statement to Local 4.