ROMULUS – This past weekend, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Detroit Metro Airport seized over $104,000 from travelers coming in from Pakistan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Nigeria and Iran according to the Detroit Free Press. 

Money over $10,000 must be declared or it can be classified as a civil offense punishable by seizure of the cash. 

The report said excuses were given including not knowing the law and being late for their flight. 

DETROIT – Hayes Bacall, 51, the owner of Dexter Cash Checking in Detroit, was convicted of first-degree murder on Aug.18. Some jurors cried minutes after the verdict according to reports. 

After three days of deliberations, Bacall was found guilty by the jury in a ruling that was controversial within the large family. Some felt the man who was shot and killed, Saif Jameel, Bacall’s nephew, had threatened Bacall and that Bacall had acted in self defense during the incident at a Troy BP gas station last summer. The argument was over $400,000 in loans Jameel had not allegedly been keeping up with.  Defense attorneys argued the killing was in self-defense as Jameel was reaching for a gun but Prosecutor Ken Frazee argued that Bacall shot Jameel in anger and the killing was premeditated. 

DETROIT – A drug trafficking ring allegedly involving some members of the Detroit-based Chaldean Organized Crime Syndicate has been busted according to federal officials. 

About 60 people from the Iraqi Chaldean community were arrested on various charges after a six-month investigation in El Cajon near San Diego. Among the illegal activities alleged are selling illegal drugs, explosives, grenades and assault rifles. 

The suspects are accused of working at an Iraqi social club in El Cajon according to authorities, where they shipped drugs supplied by a powerful Mexican cartel to Detroit. 

One of the suspects was also charged with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. 

DETROIT – An imam who once worked in Michigan, Mohammad Masroor, was arrested on 13 counts of sexual assault in Toronto according to WWJ radio. 

Masroor reportedly lived and worked in various countries ranging from France to Sri Lank and had been in Canada since 2008. The charges are related to offenses taking place between fall 2008 and summer of 2011. 

Police suspect there could be victims in other countries and those with info are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 416.222.8477.