James W. Brackenbury, a 42-year-old man charged with robbing an Ann Arbor bank on July 24, has recently admitted to three other bank robberies in the Saginaw and Bay City areas, according to news reports at AnnArbor.com and Mlive.com. An FBI agent alleges in a criminal complaint that Brackenbury admitted…
Michael Tarris Rashad Norris was scheduled to appear for a probable cause hearing on Friday, July 26 in connection with the September 2012 shooting deaths of 22-year-old Alvaro Carrillo-Menendez and 45-year-old Felix Romeo Reyes-Santos. Now, the probable cause hearing has been delayed due to what Norris’ attorney Christopher Dennie called…
Almost one year ago, we wrote about two young men who had been involved in the beating of one of the young men’s family with a baseball bat. Now, Tucker Cipriano and Mitchell Young have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Tucker’s father, Robert Cipriano. On…
A South Lyon man, 31-year-old Eric John Frederickson, has been charged with first-degree murder in the murder of his ex-girlfriend. 22-year-old Summer Faulkner allegedly died after being stabbed by Frederickson on Friday July 19. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Frederickson with the murder, alleging that he entered the victim’s…
Authorities believe than one man is responsible for four armed robberies that have occurred in Ann Arbor this year. Ahmad Abdullah-Albasir is in custody in the Washtenaw County Jail after being charged with the robberies, called ‘brazen’ in news articles. The 30-year-old Abdullah-Albasir is being held on a $1.2 million…
In April, we wrote about Jeffrey P. McKenna being charged with arson in connection with a fire that burned a rental home where he was living. The home was divided into separate units; four families were living in the rental home at the time. Now, 33-year-old McKenna is facing two…
On Tuesday July 16, employees of Dearborn Family Dollar store arrived at work to find that something horrible had occurred. One employee was found inside the store, apparently dead from gunshot wounds. While 20-year-old Joe Orlando was deceased, his 20-year-old coworker, Brenna K. Machus, seemed to be missing. According to…
Two Detroit teens will face federal sentences for their alleged involvement in robbing two cell phone stores over the past year. 18-year-old Jesse Dismukes and 19-year-old David Lamont Holland now each face a mandatory minimum of 32 years behind bars for the robberies. A news article at Mlive.com says that…
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…
33-year-old Jason Michael Warfield of Sparta was recently charged in connection with the June 21 armed robbery of an Admiral gas station located at 206 S. State Street. Warfield allegedly used a knife and bicycle in the commission of the crime. According to a news article at Mlive.com, Warfield made…