Two arrested on retail-theft charges

Two people were arrested over the weekend on felony charges related to a retail-theft incident at the Sturgis Meijer.

According to a Sturgis Department of Public Safety media release, officers were called at 1:45 a.m. Sunday to the South Centerville Road store in response to a felony retail fraud, and a hit-and-run crash.

Officers eventually located the suspect vehicle, a U-Haul box truck, after it had crashed on Franks Avenue on the east side of the city.

Both passengers, a man and a woman, fled on foot. The female was detained and arrested on charges of probation violation, and resisting and obstructing.

A warrant request was submitted for the driver for felony charges that include fleeing and eluding, resisting and obstructing, retail fraud and possession of methamphetamine, according to authorities.