William Rice, once the head of the homicide division of the Detroit Police Department, recently appeared in court facing allegations of drug dealing and possession, mortgage fraud, operating a criminal enterprise and more. Detroit residents are no doubt used to hearing the words Detroit and corruption together, certainly more often…
In August of this year, 22-year-old Curtis Stough was arraigned on charges of operating a meth lab and attempted manufacturing of methamphetamine in Houghton County Circuit Court. Stough, a resident of Marquette, pleaded not guilty. He and 3 others were suspected of running a meth lab in Chassell, which was…
In December of 2011, ten members of a violent Detroit gang known as the ‘Hustle Boys’ were indicted by a grand jury, eight of them arrested. The gang had been under investigation by federal agents and other police agencies for a lengthy time period, according to news reports which state…
In late May, 29-year-old Robert Thurman Fields and his wife, 30-year-old Nickolena Margaret Fields were arrested and taken into custody after police obtained a search warrant and found several components of a meth lab along with a small amount of what they suspected to be methamphetamine. The two suspects were…
Enrique Amaya, a 31-year-old Pontiac man, was sentenced on Monday to life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder by Detroit federal judge Paul Borman. Amaya was found guilty of the charges in June, after allegedly hiring a hit man to kill a man in Colorado so that he could…
On Thursday October 11, the Detroit Police Gang Squad noticed a man acting suspiciously as they were patrolling a school near Linwood at the Lodge. The man, who had been walking when the gang squad spotted him, took off running. According to news reports, police then chased the man to…
Everett Seay, a 61-year-old former Pontiac city councilman, was recently charged with several counts including those for drug related offenses, bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery and aiding and abetting. Seay was still in office when several of these offenses allegedly occurred. According to news reports, Seay was helping an alleged…