On Tuesday July 9, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officials were asking for the public’s help in finding a 21-year-old man who has been charged in a shooting that occurred in Kalamazoo’s Edison neighborhood on July 4th. Okoli Dion Staggers was charged with seven counts of weapons violations and assault…
In September of 2011, 45-year-old Rodney A. Slayton was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder in the 1992 strangulation death of Lynette Gibson, a mother of five children who was 39 years old at the time of her death. It was 18 years after the murder, which had become a…
40-year-old Tracy Russell was convicted in March of 2012 of aggravated stalking and larceny from a building in connection with allegedly stalking his former girlfriend and stealing her heirloom jewelry as she was recovering from cancer surgery. He was sentenced to two to five years in prison by Jackson County…
On Monday July 8, a 34-year-old Lansing man was pulled over by a man he believed to be a police officer, then robbed at gunpoint. Robert Merrit, Lansing police public information officer, said in a news article at Mlive.com that at around 10:50 p.m. on Monday, police were dispatched to…
Last month, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals determined that a jury should decide if two Sturgis police officers, Damon Knapp and Mark Stoneburner, used excessive force against a young man and his mother when entering their home following an alleged shoplifting incident without a warrant. Charles Smith, 20,…
Devonte Jaquez Warren was arraigned on Friday, July 5 in Grand Rapids District Court on charges of murder, felony use of a firearm, and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Gregory Woods Jr., a member of the Bemis Boys, a notoriously violent gang. News reports claim…
On Monday June 10, 32-year-old Robert Anthony Moore was stopped by police in Lawrence for driving on the fog line and tailgating another vehicle; he was charged with resisting and obstructing, and jailed after it was determined there were previous warrants for his arrest. The incident occurred near Exit 52…
30-year-old Calvin Leon Liptrot Jr. is scheduled to be sentenced on July 8 on charges of operating while intoxicated causing death, and failure to stop at the scene of an accident that resulted in death. Liptrot is to be sentenced by Kent County Circuit Court Judge James Robert Redford. On…
On July 1, 22-year-old Carlos A. Lopez was charged with one count each of larceny in a building, unlawfully driving away a motor vehicle, and driving on a suspended or revoked license. Lopez allegedly stole a vehicle from a friend, then crashed it into a light pole before running away…
In March of 2006, Ronald Wenman was convicted of felony murder in a case involving Walgreens clerk Patti Jo Morris. Wenman allegedly slashed Morris’ throat while holding up the Walgreens pharmacy in August of 2005. Wenman was sentenced to life in prison, and has had his appeals for relief denied…