Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1970
Caption:
Down The Drain - Yesterday was liquor disposal day at the Ann Arbor Police Department. Three rubbish barrels jammed with beer and whiskey, confiscated in criminal cases, were hauled to a sewer drain. Each can and bottle was carefully opened by Uniformed Lt. Robert Whitaker, (left) and Police Cadet Melvin Roper who poured the contents into the drain. An investigator from the Michigan Liquor Control Commission was present for the disposal procedure.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 13, 1966
Caption:
Spirits Go Down The Drain: Ann Arbor Police Capt. Henry G. Murray pours the first of a cart load of beer and whisky down a drain at city headquarters. The intoxicants are part of a hoard of partly filled bottles of beverages confiscated by city officers in arrests over a six-month period. The spirits are poured down the drain in the presence of an investigator from the state's Michigan Liquor Control Commission.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 17, 1964
Caption:
Moonshine Leavings: Ann Arbor Police Detective Lt. Eugene L. Staudenmaier (kneeling, left) and Patrolman Raymond Winters (left) hold handfuls of raw wheat taken from one of 20 barrels found in the attic of a house at 717 McKinley yesterday. Detective Sgt. Norman Olmstead (center) holds the barrel while Patrolman Robert LeVanseler (right) checks a glass of white liquid police said was moonshine.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 30, 1964
Caption:
Beer 'Bust': State Liquor Control Commission Investigator Michael Pekrul, left, and Ann Arbor Police Detective Lt. Eugene L. Staudenmaier pour the first of 349 12-ounce bottles of beer down a drain at the rear of City Hall. The beer, in addition to 12 pints of whiskey, 16 bottles of wine and a quarter barrel of beer, was dumped yesterday into the drain as part f a routine police procedure in disposing of confiscated intoxicants. A state liquor detective is required to attend such dispositions.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 10, 1954
Caption:
Low Spirits: Beer and whisky confiscated by police in the course of arrests during the past month go down the drain in front of City Hall with Police Lt. Harold E. Olson and a staff officer of the Michigan Liquor Control Commission pouring. Much of the liquor was confiscated from juveniles.