18-year-old Javare Holmes of Ann Arbor has been charged with nine counts of first-degree home invasion and other felony charges in connection with break-ins at homes across Washtenaw County. Holmes appeared on Monday, August 5 for a pretrial hearing; his trial date was set for September 30 for four of…
On Monday, August 5, we wrote about a suspect who had been arrested after attempting to break in to Kid Rock’s Clarkston home. Now, 43-year-old Brian Duane Keith is facing three felony charges following his Tuesday arraignment. Keith has been charged with malicious destruction of personal property over $1,000, malicious…
On Monday August 5, 21-year-old Curtis Wayne Hankton was sentenced to 8 to 20 years in prison for two armed robberies he pleaded guilty to; he will serve these terms concurrently after being sentenced by Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge J. Richardson Johnson. Hankton participated in two armed robberies which took…
Recently, a 43-year-old Independence Township resident was arrested for attempting to break in to musician Kid Rock’s home in Clarkston, according to a news article at Mlive.com. Sheriff’s deputies received two tips leading to the arrest of the suspect. Prior to the arrest, Kid Rock was offering a $5,000 reward…
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…
Over a span of eight days, at least four robberies have occurred in the Wyoming area which police believe involve a man and woman. Two individuals, 28-year-old Codie Ann Vargas-Alegre and 38-year-old Juan Mario Hernandez-Correa, were arrested at their Byron Center Avenue home on July 25 in connection with the…
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…
Two men, Darell Wayne Boyd and Christopher Lee Warren, are accused of being among a quintet of alleged armed robbers who invaded a home in Lowell Township in May of 2012, ransacking the home after tying up the residents and pistol whipping one of them, according to a news article…
As experienced Michigan criminal defense attorneys know, a criminal charge does not always lead to a conviction and the resulting criminal penalties. In February of this year, 29-year-old Joslin Patrick McEwen was charged with first-degree felony home invasion in connection with an incident that occurred in Cedar Springs in the…