In October of 2012, 29-year-old Kurt Allen Smith was arrested after repeatedly trying to run a female Kalamazoo public safety officer off the road, according to news articles at Mlive.com. Following the incident officers found what they believed to be heroin along with components for manufacturing meth. Police also suspected…
On Thursday January 16, 41-year-old Jacob Morales Perez was found guilty of strangling Angela Vance, his live-in girlfriend, in August of 2012. Perez was convicted of second-degree murder for the strangulation death. According to news reports at Mlive.com, the two were fighting at their Flint home on Minnesota Avenue when…
43-year-old Ynes Danyelle Lee of Grand Rapids is charged with open murder in the killing of her husband, Bertram Nathaniel Lee, in August of last year. On Wednesday, Lee rejected an offer by prosecutors to plead guilty to manslaughter or second-degree murder, according to news reports at Mlive.com. If convicted,…
26-year-old Chad Neiderquill requested to withdraw his guilty plea to armed robbery in connection with a September 2013 incident in which he allegedly robbed a Saginaw woman of prescription medication using a screwdriver. On December 23, Saginaw County Circuit Judge James T. Borchard approved the defendant’s request. Borchard agreed on…
In January of 2012, Benjamin French was sentenced to life in prison for allegedly killing an MSU student and his roommate in the course of an armed robbery involving drugs. The double murder occurred on March 25 of 2010; the victims were Owen Goodenow and Darren Brown Jr. French, who…
Two South Haven individuals were recently arrested on multiple charges including carrying an unregistered handgun and possession of marijuana, according to news reports at Mlive.com. The couple, a 38-year-old man and 36-year-old woman, were walking in Geneva Township when they were stopped by Van Buren County sheriff’s deputies. Deputies reportedly…
Last week, trial was scheduled to begin for 21-year-old James Paul Simpkins II of Detroit who is accused of killing his brother and two others. Simpkins allegedly killed the three victims at a Flint home in 2012 during a house party, according to news articles at Mlive.com. The party was…
On Sunday January 12, an incident that police are calling “road rage” led to the firing of a gun from a man riding a motorcycle into an SUV, according to news reports at Mlive.com. Now, 22-year-old Steven Lavigne is facing charges of attempted murder and more after the bullet nearly…
Last month we wrote about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian man sentenced to life for attempting to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight headed to Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas day in 2009. Abdulmutallab had explosives concealed in his underwear, and attempted to ignite the explosives as the plane was…
Just after midnight New Year’s eve, a 27-year-old Ypsilanti woman was pulled over in Pittsfield Township in the parking lot of a Steak ‘n Shake after police were called to the restaurant by employees who said she was acting “disorderly,” according to a news article at Mlive.com. The woman had…