Man accused of crime outside Jewish Federation Building pleads to felony charge
A West Bloomfield man accused of making a threat outside the Max M. Fisher Jewish Federation Building last year pleaded no contest Tuesday to a felony charge. Steven Daniel Zalla entered his plea...
View ArticlePrison sentence ordered for Pontiac man in federal drug case
A Pontiac man will spend seven years in prison for distribution of illicit drugs in West Virginia, as sentenced in federal court Tuesday. Larry Williams Jr., 53, admitted he sold methamphetamine and...
View ArticleSheriff: 1 dead, 1 injured when man fires gun while being assaulted at...
A shooting at a convenience store in Pontiac on Tuesday night left a man dead and his girlfriend seriously injured, officials said. According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, the two were shot...
View Article2 arrested for break-in at vacant Roosevelt Elementary School
Two 20-year-old Oakland County men are facing charges for allegedly breaking into Keego Harbor’s vacant Roosevelt Elementary School on Cass Lake Road recently. According to the Keego Harbor Police...
View Article‘We all hate you’: Family members revile Dan Hutchinson’s killers at sentencing
“Disgusting, worthless coward.” That’s how the teenage daughter of murdered Oakland County businessman Daniel Hutchinson, Marlee, described one of her father’s two killers — his former attorney, Marco...
View ArticleCase advances against Farmington Hills teen accused of paralyzing man in...
The case against a Farmington Hills teenager accused of shooting a Pontiac man, leaving him paralyzed, has been advanced to Oakland County Circuit Court for possible trial. At the conclusion of a...
View ArticleSouthfield police: Man, 80, dies days after being assaulted, robbed
An alleged strong-arm robbery incident is now a homicide case in Southfield after the elderly victim died from his injuries several days later. A 26-year-old man is in custody for the attack and...
View ArticleCharges dropped, 1 added for man accused of plotting murder against family
Five felony charges were recently dismissed and one added for a man initially accused of soliciting murder in connection with a family inheritance. Max Garza, 49, had been charged with five counts of...
View ArticleMushrooms, pot, pills and cash seized in drug raid in Oakland County
Macomb County police raided a location in Oakland County earlier this week that netted a large amount of drugs and cash. The COMET team executed search warrants Wednesday at undisclosed location in...
View ArticlePolice: Man threatened officers; used own kids as barricade to avoid arrest
A 24-year-old man who reportedly called in threats to the Farmington Hills Department and the home of a police officer’s father is jailed on a felony charge. Shawn Bonner faces one count of false...
View ArticleWoman hit by gunfire in Southfield; shooters at-large
A 34-year-old woman was shot multiple times Thursday night in Southfield, and the shooter or shooters have not yet been caught, police said. According to the Southfield Police Department, officers were...
View ArticleMan accused of sex with child runaway pleads to charges, 2 other charges dropped
Prosecutors have dropped two of four charges against a White Lake Township man accused of having sex with a 13-year-old runaway from Waterford Township. Dougas Marcel Corbeau, 21, pleaded guilty June...
View ArticleDemolition begins on the Parkland building where 17 died in 2018 mass shooting
PARKLAND, Florida — With a groan, the classroom building where 17 people died in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting began to come down Friday morning in chunks of metal, concrete, and...
View ArticleWoman accused of killing her toddler in Pontiac; jailed on $1M bond
A Flint woman accused of killing her toddler in Pontiac was arraigned Friday on charges of felony murder and first-degree child abuse. Latonya Shante Thomas, 27, is held in the Oakland County Jail with...
View ArticleMotorcyclist killed, child injured in northern Oakland County crash
A 60-year-old motorcyclist was killed Friday after colliding with another vehicle. The accident occurred just after 1 p.m. June 14 in Brandon Township, near the intersection of Baldwin and Hummer Lake...
View ArticleSix people shot Saturday in Lathrup Village
Investigators in Lathrup Village are trying to figure out what led to an overnight shooting that injured six people. The city’s police department posted on Facebook about the shooting, asking for...
View ArticleNine injured at splash pad in ‘random’ shooting, two critically; suspect dead...
Nine people were shot late Saturday afternoon at a splash pad in Rochester Hills in what police say appears to be a random event. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said the suspect was dead of a...
View ArticleRoyal Oak police: Royal Oak man faces felony for destroying police iPad...
Royal Oak man faces felony for destroying police iPad during court hearing A Royal Oak man during his misdemeanor arraignment for a second-time domestic violence charge destroyed the police department...
View ArticleClawson teen charged in stabbing free on $125K bond
A Clawson man, 18, is due to appear in Troy 52-4 District Court later this month for a hearing on a charge that he stabbed another Clawson man, 21, as he sat on his porch. The stabbing happened about...
View ArticleSplash pad shooter described by neighbors as ‘a loner’
Neighbors of the gunman suspected in the attack on nine people — including two children — at Brooklands Park splash pad in Rochester Hills couldn’t help but think “was he after me?” The shooter was...
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