On January 23, a man pulled out of a parking lot at the Falcon Inn Motel on Michigan Avenue in Dearborn; he exited the parking lot without signaling, pulling onto Cambridge Street in a 2004 Ford cutaway van, according to a news article at Pressandguide.com. An officer who saw the…
Recently a 25-year-old man was arrested for drunk driving when police approached a vehicle in a Sunoco parking lot. The man, who was sitting in his 2014 Chevrolet Cruze, had his head lying on his arm inside the vehicle. The man was arrested for DUI, although news reports do not…
Over the past week, several meth labs have been found at locations in Comstock Township. On Saturday February 15, deputies responded to a home located in the 5900 block of Comstock Avenue after Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s deputies received a call regarding a suspected meth lab that was smoking. Upon arriving…
Earlier this month, a Pittsfield Township accident involving two vehicles resulted in the arrest of a 28-year-old Ann Arbor man for drunk driving. According to news reports at Mlive.com, the crash took place at approximately 12:30 a.m. in the area of Washtenaw and Foster Avenues. Upon arriving at the scene,…
On February 10, 42-year-old John Joseph Henry of Taylor was shot in the head after he tried to stop an intruder who had entered his home and was in the midst of stealing property. A neighbor of Henry’s was then interviewed by NBC Channel 4 in Detroit; the neighbor, Jeremy…
On Tuesday February 11, military judge Col. Daniel Daugherty requested prosecutors explain to him how they intended to prove the aggravated sexual assault charges against a former U.S. Naval Academy football player, 21-year-old Joshua Tate of Nashville, TN. Tate is accused of sexually assaulting a female at a party in…
In June and August of 2011, Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Ian Glick conducted searches on property owned by a family with licenses to grow a specific amount of marijuana to be used for medical purposes under MMMA (Michigan’s Medical Marijuana Act). Gerald Duval Jr., one of the property owners, is…
On Thursday February 13, a prominent minister and activist in Detroit turned himself in to the Detroit Police Department and was charged with domestic violence against his wife. Rev. Horace L. Sheffield III, minister at New Destiny Baptist Church, was booked, charged, and released on a $7,500 bond, according to…
Robert Hezekiah Prescott, a 38-year-old Kalamazoo taxi driver who works for Godspeed Taxi, is facing trial for the alleged sexual assault of a woman who used his cab service on January 12 of this year, according to news reports at Mlive.com. Court documents indicate Prescott was bound over for trial…
On Tuesday February 4, 37-year-old Ryan D. Tafel of Saginaw Township was sentenced to one year in prison and one year on a GPS-enabled tether after pleading no contest to attempted first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Saginaw County Circuit Judge Janet M. Boes sentenced Tafel, who pleaded no contest to the…