Ali Darwich, a 31-year-old man who lives in Beverly Hills, was sentenced on Wednesday May 8 to 137 years in prison following his December conviction for his role in an arson ring that resulted in insurance companies being defrauded of more than $5 million. Darwich was initially arrested in 2008…
On Friday May 3, 72-year-old Alphonso D. Jackson of Detroit was arrested after the body of an elderly woman in a dismembered state was discovered in his apartment. Jackson was arraigned on Monday after being charged with concealing the death of a person, disinterment of a body, and tampering with…
In early February of this year, a 16-year-old girl was shot in the back; Lansing police searched for a suspect after blocking off roadways between Daleford and Oakland avenues along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Last week, police arrested 18-year-old Uriah Jackson in connection with the shooting, according to a…
On March 28, 30-year-old Dewayne Kerperien was found guilty of armed robbery in connection with an incident at a Burton Meijer store last year in which he allegedly robbed a woman in the parking lot. Kerperien, who is a resident of Flint, was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in…
In January of this year, four people were sleeping inside a Saginaw rental home located at 703 S. Michigan when the home caught on fire. The home was separated into five apartments; tenants were said to have been present in three of those apartments when the blaze began. All escaped…
On Friday April 19, a 20-year-old woman was shot in the head as she was walking to her apartment after getting off work. The woman, who is a resident of Pittsfield Township, was treated for non-life threatening injuries following the shooting, although the suspect was still at large. Chief Gordy…
In January of this year, 31-year-old Raymond Burger of Meridian Township was arrested for allegedly robbing a gas station in December of 2012. Burger was accused of holding up the Marathon gas station located at 3010 Lake Lansing Road with a weapon. News reports at Mlive.com state that no one…
On Thursday April 11, 26-year-old Pamela King was bound over to circuit court by Lansing District Judge Hugh Clarke on a charge of felonious assault, also known as assault with a dangerous weapon. King allegedly slashed an acquaintance in the course of an argument on March 31 of this year.…
On Wednesday April 10, a woman was allegedly carjacked after coming out of a west Detroit Dollar Store, where she and her 4-year-old son had been shopping for balloons. The incident took place in the middle of the day, when the woman was carjacked at gunpoint as she unlocked her…
In April of 2012, then 19-year-old Rodney Scott was accused of murdering Ignacio Rebolloso at a birthday party both of the men were attending in Lansing. On Wednesday, April 10, Scott agreed to a plea bargain in front of Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette. Scott pleaded guilty to second-degree…