A 9-year-old boy found dead and buried in a shallow grave behind his former home in Detroit earlier this year told Child Protective Services 10 months earlier that his mom regularly choked him and “wants to kill him.” Zemar King’s mother, 41-year-old Brandee Katrice Pierce, heard the words of her son Friday during her formal …
A Michigan mother has been arrested for allegedly abandoning her three children in a Pontiac home to fend for themselves for four or five years, occassionally dropping food off for them. Oakland County deputies were called to home and found it in deplorable condition, with piles of garbage as deep as four feet in some …
A Michigan man accused of killing his girlfriend and stealing her car was ultimately found in New Mexico and arrested. Grand Rapids Police found Aleta Lung, 61, dead in her home early Wednesday afternoon after her family contacted a property manager saying they hadn’t heard from her in days, WOOD reported. An autopsy determined Lung …
A Michigan mother has been charged with the death of her toddler daughter after the girl became wedged between the driver’s seat and door of the mom’s pickup truck while she went into a store to get lunch for the dad. The incident took place on October 9, 2024, in Grand Rapids, WOOD reported. Angelica …
The ex-boyfriend of a missing Michigan woman has now been charged with murder in the case. Deandre Booker, 32, was also arraigned on charges of tampering with evidence, mutilation of a dead body, and concealing the death of an individual, the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office said. Booker was previously charged with lying to police investigating …
A former Michigan youth pastor and music director charged with more than 30 counts of sexually abusing children had his $3 million bond denied after prosecutors told the judge that he had called one of his victims eight times after the allegations surfaced last year. Zachary Joseph Radcliff told the boy to “keep his f****** …
A Michigan police cadet had to disarm a 5-year-old child with a loaded handgun at a Battle Creek home on Saturday. Battle Creek police said the cadet was serving a subpoena on someone at the home when the child answered the door carrying a large knife, WWMT reported. The cadet called for backup and asked …
The father of a 14-month-old Michigan baby was sentenced last week to 15 to 70 years in prison for the boy’s death. Isaias Aurelio Porras and the baby’s mother, Amanda Jajou, were arrested in October 2021 after police found Isaias Daniel Porras dead at the Farmington Hills motel where the family had been living on …
Investigators say they uncovered a “strong possibility of foul play” at the apartment of a missing Michigan woman’s ex-boyfriend. Police searched the apartment — in Roseville, a Detroit suburb — on Tuesday, looking for information about 30-year-old Ashley Elkins, who hasn’t been seen or heard from since January 2. Elkins, a hair stylist and mother …
Police in Michigan are searching for a motive after a manufacturing company president was stabbed by an employee during. staff meeting Tuesday morning. Nathan Mahoney, 32, fled the scene but was soon arrested and charged with assault with intent to murder. He had worked for Anderseon Express Inc. in Fruitport Township for about two weeks. …
An 18-year-old Michigan man has been charged with burning down the family home of his ex-girlfriend. Cameron Spencer has been charged with four counts of attempted murder, one count of second degree arson, one count of home invasion, and two counts of malicious destruction of property. The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office said four people in …
A Michigan teenage missing since early this month was found dead on Friday after a 20-day search. The body of Cortez McConer Jr, 16, was found Friday afternoon “in a secluded and heavily wooded area near Rockford,” the Grand Rapids Police Department said. “This is not the outcome we had hoped for,” said Chief Eric …
