Police & Courts

A bag containing a handgun was discovered by a child July 5 in a Target parking lot.

Published July 12, 2019

C&G Newspapers

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — No charges are expected to be filed against a woman whose gun was found by a child in a Target parking lot.

Published July 11, 2019

West Bloomfield Beacon

West Bloomfield police, Kroger team up to fight hunger

WEST BLOOMFIELD — The police departments of West Bloomfield and Orchard Lake are teaming up with Kroger for a food drive benefiting a half-dozen charities.

Published July 11, 2019

Mount Clemens - Clinton - Harrison Journal

Macomb County Sheriff’s Office investigating potential counterfeit check ring

MOUNT CLEMENS — The Macomb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a possible counterfeit check ring that involves checks looking identical to those issued by the Sheriff’s Office itself.

Published July 9, 2019

Southfield Sun

Southfield man arrested following gas station shootings

DETROIT — Police have apprehended and charged a man in connection with two recent shootings at a local gas station.

Published July 9, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

Grosse Pointe Shores vehicle theft under investigation

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — A recent — albeit rare — vehicle theft in Grosse Pointe Shores has public safety officials asking residents to take precautions to prevent them from becoming victims as well.

Published July 9, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

Veteran Grosse Pointe Shores fire investigator and officer to retire

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — Lt. William “Bill” Nicholson can’t forget his first day with the Grosse Pointe Shores Public Safety Department on July 12, 1990.

Published July 9, 2019

Woodward Talk

Berkley officer honored for 117 impaired driving arrests

BERKLEY — The city of Berkley and the state office of Mothers Against Drunk Driving honored a local police officer for making the most impaired driving arrests last year.

Published July 9, 2019

Warren Weekly

Suspect in Warren attempted robbery, theft arrested in Detroit

WARREN — A man accused of using a pocketknife during an attempted robbery at a Family Dollar and then stealing a customer’s wallet at a nearby 7-Eleven about a half-hour later was arrested in Detroit July 7.

Published July 9, 2019

Warren Weekly

Three charged with involuntary manslaughter in Warren beating death

WARREN — Three men accused of inflicting a beating that resulted in the death of another man went before a judge in Warren July 5 where they were arraigned on the charge of involuntary manslaughter.

Published July 9, 2019

Mount Clemens - Clinton - Harrison Journal

Missing boater found safe after late-night search of Lake St. Clair

HARRISON TOWNSHIP — A 43-year-old St. Clair Shores man who reportedly jumped from a moving boat into Lake St. Clair the evening of July 8 was found safe and uninjured after a late-night search, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office reports.

Published July 8, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

Grosse Pointe Farms officer saves suicidal man

FARMS — A Grosse Pointe Farms Public Safety officer is being credited with preventing a man from taking his own life.

Published July 8, 2019

Fraser - Clinton Township Chronicle

Gunman charged with two felonies after Budd Park incident

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Authorities have released the name of the suspect who was charged after an hourslong stalemate with Clinton Township police in the early morning of July 3.

Published July 8, 2019

Royal Oak Review

Man charged in Clawson bank robbery

CLAWSON — On Monday, July 8, a 23-year-old Southfield man was arraigned on five felony charges after police say he robbed KeyBank, 330 W. 14 Mile Road in Clawson, two days earlier.

Published July 7, 2019

Woodward Talk

Missing Ferndale mother found dead

FERNDALE — The Ferndale Police Department has confirmed that a Ferndale woman, missing since last week, has been found dead.

Police forces gather outside a home on St. Margaret Street in St. Clair Shores July 5, after a man shot two people late July 4. On July 6, a SWAT team entered the home and found the man and a woman dead inside following a more than 24-hour standoff.

Published July 6, 2019

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Two found dead as standoff in St. Clair Shores comes to an end

More than 24 hours after a man came out of his house to shoot at those celebrating the Fourth of July in his neighborhood, police officers found both he and a woman dead inside a residence in the 31900 block of St. Margaret Street.

Published July 5, 2019

Warren Weekly

Sweepstakes scammers bilk Warren senior out of $34,000

WARREN — An 85-year-old Warren man thought he won a $1.2 million sweepstakes cash prize last month. But police said he really ended up getting scammed out of the $34,600.50 he apparently sent by personal checks to cover taxes on the mythical prize money.

Published July 5, 2019

C&G Newspapers

‘There needs to be a very unique fix’

MACOMB COUNTY — Less than two weeks after a presentation regarding a proposed new Macomb County Jail, county officials held a tour of a jail cell. Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel and Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham provided a look inside the Macomb County Jail July 1.

Published July 5, 2019

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Child, 4, dies in car crash

ROSEVILLE — The Roseville Police Department is investigating a car crash that caused the death of a 4-year-old boy July 3.

Published July 5, 2019

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Police investigating active shooter in St. Clair Shores

St. Clair Shores Police and Michigan State Police have been on the scene of a shooting since around 10 p.m. July 4, when a man allegedly fired shots out into the street in response to fireworks being set off to celebrate the national holiday.

Published July 5, 2019

Warren Weekly

Suspects arrested after Auburn Hills man they beat in Warren dies

WARREN — Three suspects were in Warren police custody and expected to face charges July 5, a day after a 24-year-old Auburn Hills man died following an early-morning beating near Chicago and Mound roads.