Michigan dad brings along daughter, 11, to home burglary and ditches her when homeowner arrives: prosecutors

A delinquent dada allegedly strong-armed his unsuspecting girl into breaking into a Detroit house, but skipped retired astatine the archetypal motion of occupation – and near the 11-year-old down to instrumentality the fall, according to prosecutors. 

Andre Stephon-Curtis Broadenax, 29, allegedly stole different man’s car successful Dearborn connected April 29 and past drove to the under-renovation location astir 15 minutes distant successful the leafy residential neighborhood, prosecutors said. 

Once there, Broadenax allegedly broke successful and made his girl articulation him. 

“The suspect forced his 11-year-old girl to assistance him with the location invasion,” the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said successful a statement.

But the 75-year-old homeowner’s lad amazed the brace erstwhile helium came into the location and discovered the father-daughter squad — interrupting their burglary attempt. 

Broadenax scrammed without a 2nd thought — leaving down the stolen car and his daughter, prosecutors said. 

Officers from the Detroit Police Department caught up with the fishy connected ft soon aft helium tried to marque his escape, prosecutors said. 

A longtime resident, David Bridges, told WXYZ 7 that the vicinity is usually quiescent and slammed the dad’s behavior.

“As maine being a begetter of 8 kids, I can’t spot maine utilizing nary of my kids to really interruption into a location oregon bash thing to harm different idiosyncratic due to the fact that it’s wrong,” Bridges said.

He added that Broadenax’s girl could person been killed, forcing her to perpetrate specified a unsafe crime. 

“Right now, you could person conscionable mislaid your beingness and your child’s, truthful it’s truly sad,” Bridges said.

Prosecutors charged Broadenax with first-degree location invasion, second-degree location invasion, larceny successful a building, receiving and concealing a centrifugal vehicle, inducing a insignificant to perpetrate a felony and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

His adjacent tribunal quality is connected May 14.