A Michigan judge is facing backlash for reportedly sending two non-violent defendants to jail for being late to court amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, Oakland County Circuit Judge Leo Bowman sentenced Howard Baum, 61, to five days in jail for coming six hours late to a civil court case. Lawyers alleged that Baum, a …
A Michigan man faces life in prison after confessing to repeatedly flashing people since the late 1990s. Kent County police conducting surveillance arrested Steven Todd Pastoor, 54 last week after reportedly finding him nude from the waist down on Interstate 196. MLive.com reported that authorities conducted several stings over the years to catch the suspect, …
A Michigan woman learned on Monday that she will spend decades behind bars for filming herself sexually assault a 9-year-old girl and sharing the illicit footage on the Internet. Shannon Moore, 35, will serve 20 to 35 years in prison for abusing the underage victim in March 2019. She sent videos of the abuse to …
A Michigan man who allegedly murdered, mutilated, and ate his online date last year was reportedly hospitalized after being found unresponsive in his cell. Citing police, MLive.com reported that a Michigan State Trooper was dispatched to Shiawassee County Jail at 5 p.m. Monday after Mark Latunski, 50, was found unresponsive in his cell. Shiawassee County …
A 21-year-old woman broke into her ex-boyfriend’s Shelby Township house early Wednesday morning with a rifle, baseball bat, knife, rope, duct tape, and lighter fluid, but whatever she planned to do was foiled when the dog woke up the sleeping family. Lilly Xiong was charged with assault with intent to murder, first-degree home invasion, arson …
This week, a former Michigan foster care provider confessed in court to sexually assaulting a child. Mark Sorensen, 61, pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Muskegon County Circuit Court. MLive reported that he admitted to twice assaulting the victim, who was younger than 13. WXMI reported that Mark Sorensen was arrested in April, …
A suburban Detroit teacher has been accused of sexually assaulting a female student dozens of times over a two year period beginning in 2010, Fox 2 Detroit reported, including at an apartment he rented for that purpose. Jason Dean, 36, who taught at Cedar Crest Academy at the time of the alleged assaults, was arrested …
Hospital doctors declared Titus Cromer brain dead, and planned to take him off life support despite his mother’s objections
A Michigan man who is accused of killing, mutilating, and eating his online date late last month is reportedly planning to plead insanity. WJBK reported that Mark Latunski, 51, appeared in court via video on Wednesday morning and the judge granted his attorney’s request for a mental competency hearing. Latunski is accused of killing Kevin …
A Michigan man who murdered his online date late last month had mutilated and ate part of the victim’s body, recent-filed court documents have revealed. Mark Latunski, 51, is charged with murdering Kevin Bacon, 25, and mutilating his body. The Flint Journal-MLive acquired court documents stating that Bacon was discovered hanging by his ankles from …
A fire department in Michigan is under investigation after firefighters reportedly posed for a picture in front of a burning home on New Year’s Day. Deonte Higginbotham, 21, told the New York Post that he was in the process of renovating the two-story brick home which has been in his family for 50 years. He …
Earlier this month, a 25-year-old man reportedly told Michigan police that he may be the 4-year-old boy who was reported missing from a mall in the 90s. According to the Detroit Free Press, the man has submitted his DNA as authorities work to confirm whether he is D’Wan Sims. In 1994, Sims was reported missing …
