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 …
A Michigan woman arrested earlier this month and charged with assault with intent to murder apparently attacked her own daughter, throwing the girl headfirst down a flight of stairs, choking her, and slashing her with a knife. Jennifer Vargas was arrested on November 8 after Michigan State Police responded to a call at Vargas’s Traverse …
Michigan police are investigating after a body was found in a home’s freezer last week. East Lansing Police officers responded to a 911 call that reported blood on the floor inside the home. Upon searching the residence, officers found a body inside a freezer and the possible remains of a second person inside the same …
A 23-year-old Michigan man has been charged with killing his own mother during a home invasion at her Keeler Township house. The Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office said it was called to a home in the Sister Lakes area at about 5:15 a.m. Thursday for a breaking and entering in progress. When they arrived, they …
A 29-year-old Michigan church youth and music director has been charged with multiple counts of sexually abusive activity toward children. Michigan State Police said they began an investigation of Zachary Radcliff, the son of the senior pastor of Oakwood Church in Augusta Township, earlier this month after receiving reports that he solicited porn from a …
A 73-year-old Michigan man has been arrested after he allegedly slit a 7-year-old girl’s throat without provocation. Saida Mashrah was at Ryan Park in Detroit with another family member Tuesday afternoon. She told WJBK she saw the man approaching her. “A guy came up to me,” she said. “He pulled my face up and then …
