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McLaren to provide improved resources for deaf, hard-of-hearing patients following investigation
Read full article: McLaren to provide improved resources for deaf, hard-of-hearing patients following investigationMcLaren Health Care has agreed to provide better communication resources for its deaf and hard-of-hearing patients to resolve its investigation under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Efforts to reduce gun violence in Detroit continue with door-to-door ‘Peacenic’ outreach
Read full article: Efforts to reduce gun violence in Detroit continue with door-to-door ‘Peacenic’ outreachCity and state officials go door-to-door to push for peace when it comes to gun violence, and it comes after a violent weekend full of gun violence in parts of Detroit.
One Detroit Summer Surge targets high-crime areas in third annual event
Read full article: One Detroit Summer Surge targets high-crime areas in third annual eventThe third annual Summer Surge, a product of the continuing collaboration of the One Detroit partnership, will focus on the city’s public spaces and target Detroit’s 8th and 9th precincts, which have the highest rates of violence in the city.
Man robs Ann Arbor cellphone store in broad daylight, tells workers to ‘have a blessed day’
Read full article: Man robs Ann Arbor cellphone store in broad daylight, tells workers to ‘have a blessed day’A man has been sentenced after he robbed an Ann Arbor cellphone store in broad daylight and told the workers to “have a blessed day” on his way out, officials said.
11 people from Wayne, Macomb, Oakland counties charged in $4.5M COVID unemployment fraud scheme
Read full article: 11 people from Wayne, Macomb, Oakland counties charged in $4.5M COVID unemployment fraud schemeFederal officials have charged 11 people from Wayne, Macomb, and Oakland counties for their roles in a $4.5 million COVID unemployment fraud scheme.
Metro Detroit siblings, 2 others charged in $3.5 million COVID unemployment fraud scheme
Read full article: Metro Detroit siblings, 2 others charged in $3.5 million COVID unemployment fraud schemeA brother and sister from Metro Detroit are among four people charged in a $3.5 million COVID unemployment fraud scheme that stretched across several states, officials said.
Canton man charged for paying overseas trafficker for specific webcam ‘shows’ involving girls
Read full article: Canton man charged for paying overseas trafficker for specific webcam ‘shows’ involving girlsA Canton Township man has been charged for paying an overseas sex trafficker for specific webcam “shows” involving young girls, officials said.
International drug kingpin busted by PlayStation box in Novi gets decades in prison
Read full article: International drug kingpin busted by PlayStation box in Novi gets decades in prisonAn international drug kingpin linked to the stash house in Novi that was busted thanks to a PlayStation box has been sentenced to decades in prison.
International drug kingpin linked to PlayStation box bust in Novi sentenced to prison
Read full article: International drug kingpin linked to PlayStation box bust in Novi sentenced to prisonAn international drug kingpin linked to the stash house in Novi that was busted thanks to a PlayStation box has been sentenced to decades in prison.
Resolution reached after Dearborn doctor’s office dismissed patient who uses sign language
Read full article: Resolution reached after Dearborn doctor’s office dismissed patient who uses sign languageOfficials said a resolution has been reached after a Dearborn doctor’s office was accused of dismissing a woman as a patient because she needed sign language to communicate.
Detroit woman sentenced to 4 1/2 years for tax fraud scheme
Read full article: Detroit woman sentenced to 4 1/2 years for tax fraud schemeA federal judge has sentenced a Detroit woman to more than four years in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and six states out of about $28 million in tax returns.
Garden City man abuses small child, asks 50 parents for explicit pictures of their kids
Read full article: Garden City man abuses small child, asks 50 parents for explicit pictures of their kidsA Garden City man is going to prison after he abused a small child, asked 50 parents for sexually explicit pictures of their kids, and tried to get an undercover agent to send a video of a child.
Wayne County man gets prison sentence for filming sexual assault of child under 10 years old
Read full article: Wayne County man gets prison sentence for filming sexual assault of child under 10 years oldA Wayne County man was sentenced to 17 years in prison after he filmed himself performing a sex act on a child under 10 years old, officials said.
191 child porn pictures found on Michigan man’s phone 4 months after release from prison, feds say
Read full article: 191 child porn pictures found on Michigan man’s phone 4 months after release from prison, feds sayNearly 200 child pornography pictures were found on a Michigan man’s cellphone just four months after he was released from prison following a conviction for the same offense, officials said.
Macomb County gun dealer imports devices that convert firearms into machine guns from Russia
Read full article: Macomb County gun dealer imports devices that convert firearms into machine guns from RussiaA licensed gun salesman in Macomb County is accused of importing devices that convert standard firearms into machine guns from a Russian website.
How PlayStation box in Novi helped feds seize enough fentanyl ‘to kill entire population of Michigan’
Read full article: How PlayStation box in Novi helped feds seize enough fentanyl ‘to kill entire population of Michigan’FBI agents broke down how they used a PlayStation box to track down a drug stash in Novi that led to the seizure of enough fentanyl “to kill the entire population of Michigan.”
Detroit man films himself sexually abusing 3 children under 9 years old, sends videos to others
Read full article: Detroit man films himself sexually abusing 3 children under 9 years old, sends videos to othersA Detroit man who filmed himself sexually abusing three children under the age of nine years old and then sent those videos to other people will spend decades in prison.
How former Detroit nurse stole painkiller from vials, syringes, swapped it with another liquid
Read full article: How former Detroit nurse stole painkiller from vials, syringes, swapped it with another liquidOfficials said a former registered nurse at a Detroit hospital extracted painkillers from vials and syringes and filled them with a different liquid.
Federal monitor accuses UAW of concealing misconduct probe
Read full article: Federal monitor accuses UAW of concealing misconduct probeA monitor appointed by a federal judge in the wake of a United Auto Workers bribery and embezzlement scandal says the union has been uncooperative, withholding information on additional misconduct allegations.
Officials say former Highland Park police detective was sentenced to 2 years for conspiring to distribute fentanyl-laced heroin
Read full article: Officials say former Highland Park police detective was sentenced to 2 years for conspiring to distribute fentanyl-laced heroinOfficials say that a former Highland Park police detective has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl-laced heroin.
How law enforcement agencies are working together to fight violent crime in Detroit this summer
Read full article: How law enforcement agencies are working together to fight violent crime in Detroit this summerLaw enforcement agencies announced a plan to reduce gun violence in the Detroit neighborhoods that have the highest incidence of violent crime.
3 letter carriers charged for taking bribes from Farmington Hills man to help him steal credit cards
Read full article: 3 letter carriers charged for taking bribes from Farmington Hills man to help him steal credit cardsThree 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.
Farmington Hills man bribes letter carriers to get credit cards, steals COVID unemployment benefits
Read full article: Farmington Hills man bribes letter carriers to get credit cards, steals COVID unemployment benefitsA 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.
7 arrested for involvement in scheme to bring drugs from Mexico into Michigan, officials say
Read full article: 7 arrested for involvement in scheme to bring drugs from Mexico into Michigan, officials saySeven more people have been arrested in connection with a scheme to bring drugs from Mexico into the country and sell them in Michigan, officials said.
Dearborn man uses phony investment plan to steal $441K from 30 people to fund lavish lifestyle
Read full article: Dearborn man uses phony investment plan to steal $441K from 30 people to fund lavish lifestyleA Dearborn man tricked dozens of people into giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars for a phony investment scheme and used that money to fund his own lavish lifestyle, officials said.
Detroit man sentenced after carjacking woman in front of kids, targeting CPL holder, hiding in bush
Read full article: Detroit man sentenced after carjacking woman in front of kids, targeting CPL holder, hiding in bushA Detroit man who carjacked a woman in front of her children at their home and also failed to carjack a CPL holder at a gas station has been sentenced to 19 years in prison after police found him hiding in a bush.
Unemployment worker from Troy, Detroit man charged in scheme to steal benefits
Read full article: Unemployment worker from Troy, Detroit man charged in scheme to steal benefitsA Troy woman, who worked with Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency, and a Detroit man have been charged for running a scheme to steal unemployment benefits, authorities said.
Feds: Dearborn Heights man buys seaside condo with COVID relief money; wife runs $10.6M pharmacy scheme
Read full article: Feds: Dearborn Heights man buys seaside condo with COVID relief money; wife runs $10.6M pharmacy schemeA husband and wife from Dearborn Heights were arrested in separate criminal cases Tuesday -- one for running a $10.6 million fraud scheme through two pharmacies in Inkster and the other for using $1 million in COVID relief money to buy a seaside condo in Beirut, officials said.
Lansing man uses flattery, threats, guilt to entice girl to send him explicit photos, videos
Read full article: Lansing man uses flattery, threats, guilt to entice girl to send him explicit photos, videosA Lansing man has been sentenced to decades in prison after he manipulated a minor girl into sending him sexually explicit photos and videos, officials said.
Southfield man sentenced for trafficking teenage girl, ‘branding’ her face with tattoo of his name
Read full article: Southfield man sentenced for trafficking teenage girl, ‘branding’ her face with tattoo of his nameA Southfield man has been sentenced for trafficking a 17-year-old girl and “branding” her face with a tattoo of his name, officials said.
‘Yes, I am a monster’: Waterford man exploits at least 10 kids through blackmail, child porn, more
Read full article: ‘Yes, I am a monster’: Waterford man exploits at least 10 kids through blackmail, child porn, moreA self-described “sick monster” from Waterford Township has been sentenced to decades in prison after he sexually exploited at least 10 children through means such as blackmail, child pornography and assault.
Former Hamtramck officer charged with bribery was once linked to dog mauling, racial profiling cases
Read full article: Former Hamtramck officer charged with bribery was once linked to dog mauling, racial profiling casesThe former Hamtramck police officer who was charged Thursday in a federal bribery case has also been linked to dog mauling and racial profiling controversies in Metro Detroit over the past decade.
Canadian pastor picked up Michigan teen at high school, took her to motel for sex acts, feds say
Read full article: Canadian pastor picked up Michigan teen at high school, took her to motel for sex acts, feds sayA former pastor from Canada was charged last week after he picked up a Michigan teenager at her high school and took her to a motel for sex acts in 2013, according to federal officials.
Detroit man sentenced for kicking in mom’s door, stealing retired officer’s car, firing shots, more
Read full article: Detroit man sentenced for kicking in mom’s door, stealing retired officer’s car, firing shots, moreA Detroit man has been sentenced for a crime spree that included kicking in the door of his mother’s home, stealing a car from a retired police officer, firing shots on multiple instances and breaking into a house.
13 people -- 9 Detroiters -- charged in fentanyl, meth, cocaine distribution scheme
Read full article: 13 people -- 9 Detroiters -- charged in fentanyl, meth, cocaine distribution schemeNine people from Detroit and four people from Phoenix have been charged in a drug and money laundering conspiracy linked to the distribution of fentanyl, meth, cocaine and marijuana, officials said.
Highland Park detective 1 of 2 women to plead guilty in fentanyl-laced heroin conspiracy
Read full article: Highland Park detective 1 of 2 women to plead guilty in fentanyl-laced heroin conspiracyTwo women, including a Highland Park detective, pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl-laced heroin, officials said.
How a father and son used drug addiction, violence, sex dates to run a Detroit prostitution house
Read full article: How a father and son used drug addiction, violence, sex dates to run a Detroit prostitution houseA father and son have been sentenced for using crack cocaine, heroin and threats of violence to force women with addictions to go on sex dates as part of the duo’s drug and prostitution house in Detroit.