It's all a part of the movie experience, but it's what's happening off the screen that will shock you. They come up just about every day. Local 4 Defenders have learned criminals comb area movie theatres looking for easy targets and our investigation has uncovered something else. Angry moviegoers who suddenly snap, pulling knives, guns, and mace on those who dare stand up to their disruptive behavior. A natural breeding ground for criminal activity, police have long known the dark secret of cinema crime, but now in a three-month Defenders investigation we expose all sexual offenders, thieves, drug dealers, purse snatchers.
Police reports tell a tale of danger in movie theaters all over town.
A detailed look of police reports in Wayne and Washtenaw county theaters turned up shocking true-life crime stories, as frightening as any movie on the big screen. When police showed up he said he was a Navy seal at the theater to dismantle a bomb. Joanne Corrado is a regular here at the Beacon East theater. Our findings concern this senior citizen. And this was caught at the same theater on surveillance video, a car thief caught red handed.