DOJ suing Westland landlord for sexual harassment and retaliation against female tenants
December 5th, 20250 WESTLAND — The Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing a landlord for sexual harassment and retaliation against female tenants in violation of the Fair Housing Act. Former mayoral candidate William Asper allegedly began sexually harassing female tenants in 2018, offering housing-related benefits in exchange for sexual contact, making...
Oakland County Dr. Oumair Aejaz sentenced to at least 35 years for secretly filming women and sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl
December 5th, 20250 PONTIAC – On Tuesday, the Oakland County Circuit Court sentenced an Indian American physician to a minimum of 35 years in prison after he secretly filmed several underage girls and women in changing rooms at a local swim school, and after police discovered videos of him sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl. Dr. Oumair Aejaz, 41, of...Three men convicted in deadly robbery of Hassan Salame outside Dearborn restaurant
DETROIT — On Tuesday, a Wayne County jury convicted three men on all charges in the September 2023 killing of Hassan Salame, a 29-year-old Arab American business owner from Dearborn, who was fatally shot during a robbery outside Xushi Ko restaurant in East Dearborn. The incident occurred late on Sept. 19, 2023, shortly after Salame...
Texas man charged in Shelby Township with double murder of two Chaldean men
November 13th, 20250 SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A horrifying double homicide claimed the lives of two Chaldean men in Shelby Township after a disgruntled customer from Texas returned to a local auto dealership and opened fire, killing the dealership owner and his friend on Friday, November 7. Authorities arrested the suspected gunman the following day at a hotel in...
Illinois man arrested for threatening to bomb a Dearborn Heights mosque
November 13th, 20250 DEARBORN HEIGHTS – The Dearborn Heights Police Department has announced the arrest of an Illinois resident accused of threatening a local mosque in late September. Police increased security around the Islamic Institute of America on the evening of September 29, after receiving a report about a bomb threat targeting the mosque, located...
Sterling Heights couple charged in conspiracy to kill Arab American businessman Eddie Jawad
November 7th, 20250 SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI – As investigations continue into the attempted murder of Arab American businessman Eddie Jawad, the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office filed new criminal charges on Monday related to embezzlement and conspiracy to commit murder against a married couple from Sterling Heights who worked for Jawad Investment Group,...
U.S. court orders Israeli spyware firm NSO to stop spying on WhatsApp users
October 24th, 20250 SAN FRANCISCO — Last week, a federal court in Northern California issued an injunction prohibiting the Israeli spyware company NSO Group from targeting and spying on users of WhatsApp, one of the world’s most widely used communication platforms, according to Reuters. However, the ruling by Judge Phyllis Hamilton significantly...
“No child should fear the park”: $50 million lawsuit filed over attack on Arab American girl
October 24th, 20250 On behalf of an Arab American family whose then-7-year-old daughter was the victim of a throat-slashing attempt by a 74-year-old White man in a park in Detroit on October 8, 2024, attorney Nabih Ayad filed a civil lawsuit last week seeking $50 million in damages for the victim’s family. The lawsuit states that the defendant, Gary...
Bird droppings help crack attempted hit on Macomb businessman Eddie Jawad
October 24th, 20250 MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Authorities in Macomb County have arrested Jasan Delanta Martin, 32, of Eastpointe, in connection with the October 14 attempted murder of prominent Arab American businessman Eddie Jawad, who was shot outside his gated home in Macomb Township. Martin was arraigned October 22 in 41-A District Court in Shelby...
BREAKING NEWS: SUSPECT ARRESTED IN ATTEMPTED MURDER of BUSINESSMAN EDDIE JAWAD
October 19th, 20250 Macomb Township, MI – Today, October 19, 2025, at approximately 5:00PM, Macomb County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) SWAT, assisted by the Warren Police Department, the FBI Violent Crimes and Gang Task Force, and MCSO SET, executed a search warrant on a residence on Rivard Avenue in Warren. A 32-year-old male was taken into...
Arab American businessman Eddie Jawad survives assassination attempt outside his Macomb Township home
October 17th, 20250 Police launch investigation; Jawad says he has no idea who targeted him MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Arab American businessman Eddie Jawad survived an attempted murder outside his house in Macomb Township on the morning of Tuesday, October 14, when a masked gunman opened fire on him as he sat in his vehicle. Jawad was struck in his right arm and...
Wayne County Judge sentences “Rouge Reaper” to 75 years for the murder of activist Bushra Mawry
October 10th, 20250 DETROIT – A Wayne County Circuit Court judge has sentenced Amir Patterson, known by the street name “Rouge Reaper”, to 75 years in prison for the murder of Arab American activist Bushra Mawry, who was shot and killed more than two years ago inside an apartment in Westland while visiting a friend and a co-worker. According to...
Dearborn Police arrest teen gang linked to car thefts and Redford shooting
October 10th, 20250 DEARBORN – After extensive investigations, Dearborn Police have arrested members of a teenage gang involved in the organized theft of vehicles and their contents across the city. On Tuesday, the Dearborn Police Department announced that it had arrested two teenage suspects, aged 15 and 16, while continuing to search for three others...
Two men convicted in the brutal murder of jeweler Hussein “Sam” Murray in Rochester Hills home invasion
October 10th, 20250 PONTIAC — Nearly a year after the brutal killing of Arab American jeweler Hussein “Sam” Murray in his Rochester Hills home, two men — Carlos Hernandez, 38, and Joshua Zuazo, 40 — were convicted by separate Oakland County juries of first-degree murder and unlawful imprisonment for beating Murray to death and restraining his...
Grand Blanc Mormon church massacre leaves four dead, eight injured
October 3rd, 20250 GRAND BLANC – A Mormon church in this community was the target of a bloody terrorist massacre during Sunday services, leaving four people dead and eight others injured. The assailant, who rammed his truck into the building before opening fire on hundreds of worshipers and setting the church ablaze, was killed by police. The church was......
Sterling Heights attorney Sandi Odisho killed in drunk driving crash on Eight Mile Road
October 3rd, 20250 DETROIT – A 40-year-old Chaldean American attorney was killed in a horrific traffic accident on the evening of September 25, after her car was struck on East Eight Mile Road by a speeding drunk driver who fled the scene. Detroit police officers responded to the crash at the intersection of Eight Mile and Schoenherr at around 5:52...
Arab American woman Fatme Davis fatally stabbed by husband during custody exchange
October 3rd, 20250 In a shocking case of domestic violence at a gas station in Shelby Township, an Arab American woman was fatally stabbed by her estranged husband during a planned custody exchange of their 1-year-old son. Fatme Davis, 23 – known to family and friends as “Stella” – had separated from her husband, Sidney Emmanuel Davis Jr., 25 and......
Dearborn man sentenced to 34 months in prison for illegal gun possession after threats at Jewish center
September 26th, 20250 DETROIT – A federal court in Detroit has sentenced a Dearborn man to nearly three years in prison after he attempted to illegally purchase firearms just hours after terrorizing and threatening to kill worshipers at a Jewish center in Oakland County on the morning of December 3, 2022. Hassan Chokr, 38, pleaded guilty to a federal...
Deliberate hit-and-run in Dearborn shakes community, raises questions over police response
August 29th, 20251 DEARBORN – The Dearborn community has been shaken by a shocking crime in which an Iraqi American man was deliberately struck and in critical condition in the city’s west downtown — just one day after he had filed a complaint with police about threats to his life, a complaint that was reportedly brushed off by authorities, according...
Taylor woman sentenced to 6-15 years for reckless driving that killed Dearborn Dr. Ghada Mustapha
August 15th, 20250 DETROIT – The Wayne County Third Circuit Court has handed down a reduced sentence of six to 15 years in prison to a Taylor woman whose reckless driving caused the death of an Arab American physician from Dearborn in a horrific traffic accident last summer. According to the court documents, the defendant, Felecia Lazo,26, was driving...
Two Arab American men charged with operating chop shop for stolen vehicles
August 15th, 20250 WAYNE – The Michigan Attorney General’s Office has filed multiple criminal charges against two Arab American men accused of operating a chop shop in the city of Wayne to dismantle stolen vehicles and sell their parts. The defendants, Mohamad El-Hadi, 41, of Canton Township, the owner of Hadi’s Cash for Cars, and Dani Mourad, 44,......
Michigan AG charges four men in largest counterfeit goods seizure in state history
August 15th, 20250 LANSING – In what she described as the largest counterfeit goods seizure in the state’s history, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced criminal charges against four men accused of running a network that sold fake perfumes through major online platforms such as Walmart and Amazon. The defendants were identified as Bilal...
Dearborn man Jafar Almaarej arrested after alleged kidnapping his daughter in Pennsylvania
August 8th, 20250 After four days of continuous searching, authorities arrested an Iraqi American man from Dearborn on charges of kidnapping his daughter from his ex-wife’s home in Pennsylvania last Sunday. Police had circulated a photo of Jafar Almaarej (39), who was wanted by the Millcreek Township Police Department in Pennsylvania on charges of......
Former Inkster mayor faces prison in $100K bribery scheme; former aide accused of lying to the FBI
August 7th, 20250 DETROIT – A former executive assistant to ex-Inkster Mayor Patrick Wimberly has resigned from his top Wayne County job amid an FBI investigation into a bribery scheme that could soon bring federal charges against him. Saif Alsenad, 33, of Dearborn Heights, stepped down Monday from his $103,781-a-year position as Wayne County’s...
Dearborn Heights man sentenced to three years probation for harboring and sexually exploiting a teenage runaway
August 4th, 20250 DEARBORN HEIGHTS – A 62-year-old Dearborn Heights man has been sentenced to three years of probation after admitting to harboring and sexually exploiting a minor runaway girl last spring. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy had charged Kamal Abou Darwiche with sexual exploitation of a minor, in addition to charges of harboring a......
