(The following article by Kim Crawford was posted on the Flint Journal website on August 12. Greg Powell is the BLET’s Michigan State Legislative Board Chairman.)
DURAND, Mich. — The union that represents locomotive engineers is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever threw an object and injured one of its members in Durand on July 30.
According to Greg Powell, an officer with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen, an engineer in his late 40s was bringing a train into Durand at noon when someone hiding in a tree behind the businesses along W. Main Street threw the object through the locomotive’s windshield and struck him.
The engineer, who lives in Waterford Township in Oakland County, was knocked down, and the wound to his head was closed at a nearby medical clinic. He told police he got a quick look at the person who threw the object, describing the assailant as a teen or adult who was in a tree behind the buildings on W. Main Street at Lovejoy Street, Powell said.
The union is asking anyone with information about the incident to call Durand police at (989) 288-3113 during business hours.