SHORT TAKES : Police ‘Capture’ Madonna Scarf
The Novi Police Department has a claim to fame it can’t get rid of.
Locked in a file cabinet, along with stolen license plates and a few bad checks, is a light blue scarf worn by Madonna during the filming of her video “True Blue.”
“If it wasn’t for the notoriety of this scarf, it would be in the Dumpster,” Detective Max Roder said.
He and Detective Ralph Fluhart recovered the scarf after it and a Madonna dress were stolen from an MTV-sponsored display at the Twelve Oaks mall in 1988. Each has written to the music video network asking it to claim the swath.
Their letters have gone unanswered.
“This is the first I’m hearing about any of this,” David Cohn, director of national promotion for MTV, said Wednesday in Los Angeles.
A 20-year-old Dearborn woman pleaded guilty in 1989 to stealing the dress. She was placed on two years’ probation and ordered to receive psychological counseling.
Fluhart said the department would like to auction the scarf this fall, with proceeds going to its drug awareness program.
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