Erika Erickson
Reporter
Erika has been reporting in Michigan since 2010 and is part of The Investigators on Local 4. Send her an email.
Erika has been reporting in Michigan since 2010 and is part of The Investigators on Local 4. Send her an email.
Federal investigators say a former Detroit Transportation Corporation Procurement Director and the owner of a restoration company conspired to defraud the corporation that operates the downtown People Mover.
An Ann Arbor teen is accused of using his Instagram to post pictures and captions bragging about guns and machine gun conversion devices -- including a post that federal investigators say is linked to a shooting that hurt a woman in Detroit.
A Detroit man with “kill or be killed” tattooed on his forehead is facing federal charges after police reportedly found fentanyl, illegal guns, cash and a flamethrower during a raid.
A fight in a parking lot turned into more than 16 years in prison for a Michigan man who hid a gun in an infant’s room.
A Pontiac mother is pleading for answers after her 25-year-old son was shot and killed inside his bedroom -- in front of her -- Sunday night.
A federal agent in Detroit says a Flint man is facing charges after he used Reddit to discuss child exploitation, sent explicit images and tried to solicit illegal material from someone who appeared to be a child.
Nearly five months after 29-year-old Gary Browning was killed in a hit-and-run on Detroit’s west side, his family says the pain has only gotten worse. But they also say, their determination to find the driver responsible has only gotten stronger.
It’s a disturbing and disgusting trend that animal rescuers and Detroiters say has plagued Detroit’s Rouge Park for decades: dogs and cats abandoned, abused, and left for dead in one of the city’s largest parks. But the City of Detroit says it now has a plan.