Earlier this month we wrote about Ronnie Odell Taylor, a 45-year-old man who was convicted in late November of robbing a Kentucky Fried Chicken located at 4040 Plainfield Ave. NE in Plainfield Township. Now, Taylor’s alleged accomplice in the robbery is facing life in prison, even though he pleaded guilty…
Earlier this month, 31-year-old Clarence Ross went on trial for the September 2012 murder of Jheryl Wright in an incident that occurred outside a Quick Stop convenience store. On Friday December 20, Ross was found guilty of solicitation of murder, open murder, and felony use of a firearm according to…
In April of this year, 25-year-old Teresa Alvarez was charged with the murder of a 71-year-old woman who had reportedly rescued Alvarez and her brother from homelessness 17 years ago. According to CBS Detroit, Alvarez killed Margaret Theut in a scheme designed to steal thousands of dollars the victim had…
David Maurer, a 71-year-old man who lived at the Lurie Terrace senior community in Ann Arbor, was found dead inside his apartment on December 1. Police believe he died approximately a week earlier, and that three men who allegedly robbed the elderly man are responsible for his death. Neighbors who…
Adam Andrew Phillips, a 22-year-old Grand Rapids man, will now face trial in connection with the alleged attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend on November 5, according to news reports at Mlive.com. Phillips and the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office failed to reach a plea agreement. The victim, 18-year-old Elizabeth Batchelder, was…
Recently, Marshall Brabo, a 66-year-old Rockford man, was convicted of attempted murder in the brutal beating of his wife the day after Valentine’s Day, when the two had dinner and sex at the home where her estranged husband was residing. He now faces potential life in prison and is scheduled…
Fred Willy Glespie, a 19-year-old Benton Harbor resident, was found not guilty on Friday December 6 in connection with an apartment fire that killed three children in February of this year. Glespie was acquitted of the charges after a jury deliberated just over an hour. The February 18 fire occurred…
In a week-long crime spree that occurred the same week a Bonnie and Clyde TV miniseries aired, two people decided to accept a plea deal rather than face trial. 29-year-old Codie Vargas-Alegre and 38-year-old Juan Mario Hernandez-Correa recently pleaded guilty in Kent County Circuit Court in connection with the armed…
In October we wrote about Michael Hamilton, a Dearborn man who was charged with open murder in the shooting death of 49-year-old Robert Marcyan. Hamilton was convicted in October, and recently sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain told Hamilton upon…
On Monday December 2, 42-year-old Arthur Payne was sentenced by Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Alexander C. Lipsey to two to 15 years in prison for assault with intent to commit great bodily harm less than murder. Payne allegedly beat his girlfriend severely in March after she returned home bringing food…