Erika Erickson

Plymouth Township police said a disturbing series of investigations tied to the same household has led to disturbing charges, including child abuse, torture, unlawful imprisonment, and narcotics trafficking.

Detroit police and multiple law enforcement agencies launched a massive search on the city’s east side as part of an ongoing effort to locate missing persons, including 33-year-old missing Detroit woman Shanika Brewer.

Dozens of law enforcement officials are digging for missing persons at a park on Detroit’s east side.

Richard Werstine, accused of the 1993 murder of his roommate Rodney Barger in Detroit, was captured in Panama after evading authorities for over 30 years by using multiple aliases and false identities.

The U.S. Marshals Service’s Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team has arrested a Detroit man who they said had been on the run for more than 30 years after being accused of a 1993 murder.

A Warren man is accused of asking what he believed was a “minor boy” to connect him with a young girl.

A mother says her 14-year-old son walked away from the Fowlerville High School wrestling team because he was urinated on in the locker-room showers.

A woman is accused of threatening to kill a Detroit federal judge, a prosecutor and an FBI agent connected to the prosecution of church leader David E. Taylor, 53. She also sent an email to Local 4, with references to the same judge.

A federal criminal complaint was filed against Shawn Michael Smith, 32, of Warren, for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor after a lengthy undercover chat.

Three Michigan women are accused of running a 19-month pandemic fraud scheme that drained more than $450,000.

A Canton Township senior was approached by a man impersonating a DTE Energy worker, who presented a fake badge and company-branded clothing before asking to see her utility bill.

A mother who lost two of her children in a Detroit shooting spoke to Local 4 about her devastating loss.