A Detroit man and a corrections officer from Clinton Township were arrested and arraigned for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into a prison in the Upper Peninsula.

Michigan Department of Corrections officer Andre Taylor, 59, from Clinton Township, and accomplice Edward King, 57, from Detroit, have been arrested and arraigned in court after attempting to smuggle $443,000 worth of drugs into a correctional facility.

Three letter carriers have been charged for accepting bribes from a Farmington Hills man to help him steal credit cards from other people and intercept fraudulent COVID unemployment benefits he sent to homes along their routes, officials said.

A 28-year-old Farmington Hills man bribed letter carriers to obtain other people’s credit cards and later expanded his scheme to have those carriers intercept fraudulent COVID unemployment benefits he had filed for and sent to homes along their routes, officials said.