Oakland University campus police are asking the public for help solving an odd crime.

Thieves took a utility cart, a Club Car Carryall worth $4,000, from OU’s Research and Innovation Center just before 4 a.m. on Sunday, April 6. Surveillance cameras captured the incident. OU police released photos of the blue-and-silver cart being towed away by a white, four-door pickup truck.

OU Police Chief Mark Gordon said he’s asking anyone who has seen the truck or cart to call his office.

He described the truck as a white, four-wheel drive pick-up — either a Chevy Silverado or GMC Sierra — with an extended cab. He estimated the model years between 2012 and 2015.

Anonymous tips will be accepted — that is how OU detectives were able to find the suspect in the vandalism at Meadow Brook Hall earlier this year.

OU’s Research and Innovation Center at 2871 Research Drive in Rochester Hills near Adams Road, south of M-59, is about two miles from the main campus.

The research facility has open work spaces as well as faculty labs to study advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, data science, cybersecurity, autonomous and connected systems, bioengineering and power and energy. he stolen cart was recently donated to the lab for research purposes, Gordon said.

Anyone with information on the missing cart is asked to call OU police at (248) 370-3331.

“If someone asks to be anonymous, we’ll honor that,” Gordon said.