Man who shot Chipotle employee after fight over guacamole is headed to prison
A Detroiter who reportedly shot a Chipotle employee over the amount of guacamole he got with his food order is headed to prison. Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court, Judge David Cohen sentenced...
View ArticleDoorDasher arrested for allegedly ‘brandishing’ gun at angry, yelling women...
A DoorDash driver was arrested in Bloomfield Township for allegedly drawing his handgun from his waistband during a verbal altercation with a group of angry women outside a home where he had just made...
View Article3 Detroit men linked to SE Mich. car theft ring to stand trial
By Charles E. Ramirez, The Detroit News Three Detroit men accused of being part of a ring that stole hundreds of vehicles in southeast Michigan have been ordered to stand trial, officials said. Davonta...
View ArticleClarkston school board to discuss resource officer funding
The Clarkston school board will continue their discussion at a special tonight on ways to fund their school resource officer (SRO) staffing through the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. There will be a...
View ArticleGround Emergency Medical Transporation Coalition secures federal funding to...
It pays to know someone who knows what you don’t know. When Kevin Edmond took on the role of Sterling Heights Fire Chief he not only brought 40 years of firefighting experience to the job, but...
View Article‘You guys are looking for max damage, right?’: Ex-sailor pleads in terrorist...
A then-U.S. Navy sailor living at Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago’s north suburbs met in October 2022 with someone he thought was an Iranian terrorist to discuss locations for an attack that would...
View ArticlePontiac driver slams car into retaining wall, causing severe injuries;...
A 37-year-old Pontiac man was severely injured Sunday night when he slammed his car into a retaining wall in Orion Township while under the influence of alcohol, officials said. According to the...
View ArticleSentence handed down to former doc who stole $400K-plus through bogus...
After some delays, a former osteopath from Oakland County has been sentenced for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bogus disability insurance claims. And though the eight felonies she...
View ArticleTrial scheduled for Farmington Hills teen accused of murder
A trial date is set for a Farmington Hills teen accused of killing a woman last summer in Detroit. Brandon Butler will go on trial April 28 in 3rd Circuit Court of Michigan for the July 13, 2024 fatal...
View ArticleSouth Carolina to execute man by firing squad, nation’s first in 15 years
A South Carolina man is set to die by firing squad Friday evening, marking the nation’s first such execution since 2010. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose the firing squad over death by lethal injection or the...
View ArticleChicago landlord ordered to pay $80k for threatening to call ICE on tenants,...
A judge ordered a Chicago landlord last month to pay $80,000 to former tenants after the landlord threatened to call ICE on them during a verbal dispute in June 2020, according to court documents. The...
View ArticleSuspended driver’s license? Restoration clinic coming to Royal Oak
Dates and locations for the fourth year of Michigan’s driver’s license restoration program have been announced — including one site in Oakland County. Road to Restoration clinics are spread throughout...
View Article‘Many people will die:’ Teen arrested after alleged social media threat...
A 16-year-old male student at Lake Orion High School is facing a charge of making a threat of violence against a school which, according to Sheriff Mike Bouchard, resulted in hundreds of his fellow...
View ArticleMan pleads to ethnic intimidation, assault charges in Sterling Heights...
A Bangladeshi-American native accused of striking a white man with his vehicle in Sterling Heights pleaded no contest to ethnic intimidation and a lesser assault charge in exchange for dismissal of an...
View ArticleVictim of fatal crash apologizes to defendant in Macomb Co. courtroom
A woman who was injured in a drunken driving crash that killed a drunken driver’s best friend took the unique step of apologizing to the driver at his criminal sentencing. Latray Woods, a victim of the...
View ArticleToddler kidnapped 25 years ago in Connecticut recently found safe in Mexico
A toddler kidnapped from her father’s home in Connecticut has been found safe 25 years later in Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. Andrea Michelle Reyes was snatched from her father’s New Haven home...
View ArticlePolice: Fraudsters nail resident for $30K — new trend is to collect money at...
A Troy man recently got scammed out of $30,000 from fraudsters claiming to be from Microsoft, collecting money owed from a billing error, police said. The case is among several scams reported in recent...
View ArticleDetective describes ambush as first testimony given in slaying of Deputy Brad...
By George Hunter, The Detroit News A preliminary exam got underway Thursday in the June 2024 killing of Oakland County Deputy Sheriff Bradley Reckling during an ambush in Detroit, with one defendant...
View ArticlePolice: Alleged human trafficker arrested after victim escapes
A felon on probation who police say was selling a woman for sex in Southfield hotels is facing charges of human trafficking and other crimes after she escaped from him, police said. Rodney Holland of...
View ArticleTrial scheduled for woman accused of duct-taping disabled sister to chair...
Trial is scheduled in Oakland County for a Waterford woman accused of binding her developmentally disabled sister with duct tape, strapping her own 4-year-old child to a stroller, and then leaving them...
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