In the early morning hours of November 12, Kalamazoo Township Police were investigating an explosion that occurred inside a Parchment home that blew out a window and knocked a foundation wall loose. Authorities believe the explosion may have been meth-related. Police are looking for 24-year-old Branden Michael McNamara in connection…
In November of last year, 30-year-old Roger Stein was convicted of first-degree murder; he is serving a life sentence, and contends he had “ineffective assistance of counsel.” Stein was found guilty by a jury in the June 2012 shooting death of 22-year-old Ricky Upshaw. Stein appealed his conviction on the…
Elizabeth Campbell, a 42-year-old former Portage City Councilwoman, has been ordered to stand trial on charges of embezzlement in connection with money she allegedly stole from the Portage Rotary Club’s coffers beginning in January of 2010, according to news articles. Campbell has been charged with a single count of embezzling…
Last month, a couple was involved in a crash in Grand Rapids Township which resulted in their deaths. 20-year-old Andrea Herrera and her boyfriend, 23-year-old Eric Fischer, were killed in a collision involving 27-year-old Joseph Jay Ford, who authorities say was drunk at the time. Last week witnesses to the…
Last month, an Otsego woman was arrested after it was suspected by U.S. postal inspectors that she was dealing methamphetamine through the mail. Magdalena Stevenson was arrested and facing federal charges after the U.S. Postal Inspection Service discovered a suspicious package which had been mailed from Vallejo, CA at the…
In November of 2007, former Illinois state trooper Matt Mitchell caused an accident which resulted in the deaths of Jessica and Kelli Uhl. Mitchell pleaded guilty to reckless homicide after crossing the median on Interstate 64 and crashing into the victims’ car. This resulted from talking on a cell phone…
In July, 18-year-old Cullen Shae Johnston and 39-year-old Michael Allen Lanning allegedly broke into Wyoming High School, causing approximately $9,000 in property damage. The two pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and malicious destruction of property. Police caught the two as they were attempting to crawl out a window, according…
William Patrick Iott, a 25-year-old Milan resident, is now facing federal weapons charges after a Nike shoebox filled with ammunition and a handgun were discovered in his downtown apartment during a drug raid, according to news reports at Mlive.com. Iott is a convicted felon whose apartment was searched when a…
This week, 19-year-old Keondre E. Solomon was sentenced to 23 to 40 years in prison for his role in a double shooting on Saginaw’s South Side in October of 2012. Solomon was allegedly driving a vehicle in which the shooter, Samuel L. Jackson, was riding in when he fired into…
In June we reported that Bradford Mitchell’s second-degree murder conviction had been reversed by the Michigan Court of Appeals. Mitchell had been convicted in the 2011 beating death of Jay Kolhoff, a neighbor who lived in the same west side Saginaw apartment complex as Mitchell. Authorities claimed Mitchell beat Kolhoff…