Customer helps Dearborn police catch bank robbery suspect
June 27th, 20170 DEARBORN- Police in Dearborn said they are grateful that a bank customer followed a bank robbery suspect and helped them make an arrest. According to a press release, China Wells, 24, of Southfield entered a bank near Schaefer and Warren Avenue in Dearborn at noon on Friday. She "implied she had a weapon” and gave the teller a note...
Flint stabber is Tunisian from Canada
June 25th, 20170 FLINT — Bishop International Airport was evacuated on Wednesday after Lieutenant Jeff Neville of the airport Department of Public Safety was stabbed in the neck in what a government official familiar with the situation said was being investigated as a possible act of terrorism. According to David Gelios, special agent in charge of...
Texas man charged with hate crime for January mosque fire
June 25th, 20170 VICTORIA, TX —A federal grand jury in Victoria, Texas, has charged Marq Perez, 25, with a hate crime on suspicion of setting fire to a mosque there on Jan. 28, the Justice Department said on Thursday. If convicted, Perez faces up to 20 years in federal prison, 10 years for possessing an unregistered destructive device and another 10...
Six people now charged in female genital mutilation case
June 22nd, 20170 METRO DETROIT— Two Oakland county mothers have been charged in the federal government’s prosecution of female genital mutilation. The mothers have been charged with subjecting their daughters to the banned ritual, which brings the number of identified victims total to six girls. The identified victims include two from Minnesota...
Officer stabbed at Flint airport
June 21st, 20170 FLINT ― Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, was evacuated on Wednesday after a police officer was stabbed in the neck in what a government official familiar with the situation said was being investigated as a possible act of terrorism. All passengers were safe, the airport said in a brief statement on its Facebook page....
Two Lebanese Americans charged with aiding Hezbollah
June 9th, 20170 DEARBORN — A Dearborn man whose home was raided by the FBI on June 1 was arrested in Livonia later that night on suspicion of links to Hezbollah, a U.S. designated terrorist organization, the Justice Department announced on Thursday, June 8. Both Samer El Debek, a Lebanese American truck driver who moved to Michigan from New York a...
Police looking for man who robbed 13-year-old’s phone
June 6th, 20170 Dearborn — Police are still looking for a man who stole a 13-year-old girl's cell phone on Saturday, May 27 near Michigan Avenue and Middlesex Street. The suspect, described as a white or Arab male 25-40 years old with a thin build, walked up to the girl at around 7:30 p.m., forcibly stole her cell phone and fled the scene on...
Suspect in Portland commuter train attack arraigned in court
June 2nd, 20170 PORTLAND — The suspect in a May 26 attack on a commuter train that left two men dead and one injured was arraigned inside the Multnomah County Justice Center Courthouse on Tuesday. Jeremy Joseph Christian, a 35-yearold convicted felon, was charged with two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of second-degree intimidation and one...
Police catch suspect in Dearborn home invasion
May 9th, 20170 DEARBORN— On May 3, at around 12:00 a.m., Dearborn police officers responded to a report of an attempted home invasion on the 6400 block of Appoline Street. The owner told officers that he heard a noise in the back of his house and then saw a man removing a window screen when he went to check. Once the suspect saw the homeowner, he...Two men shot in Inkster after alleged drug deal went bad
INKSTER — Michigan State Police are inspecting a double-shooting following a supposed bad drug deal. State police detectives were called at about 10:20 p.m. May 2 to investigate the shootings, which involved two men. One man was shot twice and is being treated at Beaumont-Dearborn. The other was shot once and is beng treated at...
Search continues for kids missing since mother’s 2014 shooting
May 5th, 20170 DETROIT — In June of 2014, 6-year-old Kaylah and 8-month-old Kristian disappeared the same time their mother, Alicia Fox, was found fatally shot in an abandoned Detroit home. It's been three years since their grandmother, Travae Fox, has seen them. "Its a void," Fox told WXYZ TV. Alicia Fox's estranged husband, Erin Justice,...
Father regrets 7-year-old daughter’s visit to Detroit for genital mutilation
April 27th, 20172 DETROIT- The father of a 7-year-old Minnesota girl who reportedly came to Michigan in February to undergo genital mutilation was aware of the trip and had texted his wife while she was in Detroit, but now regrets his daughter’s visit after criminal charges. "(He) told the Child Protection investigator that if they knew what would...
Emergency doctor’s lawyer denies female mutilation; calls it religious procedure
April 20th, 20170 DETROIT— The lawyer of a Henry Ford Hospital emergency room physician charged with mutilating the genitalia of two 7-year-olds from Minnesota said she only performed a religious procedure that involved removing skin and burying it in the ground. The claims happened on Monday, April 10, during a 90-minute court hearing that ended...
Teen charged with shooting police officers he thought were thieves released on bond
April 20th, 20170 DETROIT - According to Wayne County officials, a 19-year-old man who shot two Detroit police officers on the city’s west side on April 16 at 11:45 p.m. has been released on bond. Juwan Alexander Plummer was allegedly afraid of a burglary. He has been arraigned on two counts each of Intentional Discharge of a Firearm in a...
FBI busts mass shooting plot by Texas right-wing extremist
April 18th, 20170 The Federal Bureau of Investigation busted a planned mass attack by Steven Boehle, 50, on Tuesday. A complaint obtained Monday that had been filed in a federal court said that a search warrant was carried out at Boehle's home, where 1,000 rounds of ammo were discovered. The complaint added that Boehle displayed "sovereign......
Suspect in Facebook video murder kills self in Pennsylvania
April 18th, 20170 The man suspected of killing a Cleveland man and posting a video of the murder on Facebook fatally shot himself after a "brief pursuit" by Pennsylvania State Police officers on Tuesday, police said. Steve Stephens was accused of shooting Robert Godwin Sr., 74, on a sidewalk in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday before fleeing...
Detroit doctor charged with female genital mutilation of seven-year-olds
April 13th, 20170 DETROIT- U.S. authorities have charged a Detroit doctor with performing genital mutilation on 7-year-old girls in what is believed to be the first case brought under a law prohibiting the procedure. Jumana Nagarwala, an emergency room physician at a Detroit hospital who performed the procedures at an unnamed medical clinic in the......
California gunman kills wife, self as she teaches class; student also dead
April 10th, 20170 SAN BERNARDINO- A special education teacher and one of her students were fatally shot by her estranged husband when he opened fire with a high-caliber revolver before killing himself in her classroom at a San Bernardino, California, elementary school, police said. A second student was badly wounded by the gunman, who authorities said...
At least two dead, two wounded in Southern California school shooting
April 10th, 20171 SAN BERNARDINO- At least two adults were killed and two persons, possibly students, were struck by gunfire in a classroom shooting on Monday at a Southern California elementary school, police and fire officials said. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said the shooting at Northpark Elementary School in San Bernardino, east of...
Feds hunt gun shop burglar who sent manifesto to Trump
April 10th, 20170 MADISON — Police searching for a Wisconsin man considered armed and dangerous stepped up patrols on Sunday at churches near his home because of anti-religious views expressed in a manifesto he sent to President Trump, officials said. Joseph A. Jakubowski, 32, is wanted for breaking into a gun shop called Armageddon Supplies in his...
Police revisit 2006 homicide of Dearborn woman
April 8th, 20170 DEARBORN —Dearborn police are revisiting the 2006 shooting of Aniseh Eljahmi in the hopes of making an arrest. On April 13, 2006 Eljahmi was found dead in front of her home in the 3400 block of Houston, near Outer Drive and Pelham. Eljahmi's 6-year-old daughter witnessed the shooting, but was unharmed. "It appeared she was......
Accused ISIS supporter Abu Rayyan gets five years on firearm charges
April 8th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Thursday, April 6, Khalil Abu Rayyan, a 22-year-old accused of supporting ISIS was sentenced to five years in prison for federal firearm charges. U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh said in sentencing Abu Rayyan he wanted to send a message that the "first steps" toward terrorism or other violent crimes...
Mother of fatally shot Detroit man sues officers for $50 million
April 7th, 20171 DETROIT — On Thursday, April 6, the mother of Terrance Kellom, an unarmed Black man fatally shot in his father’s home in April 2015, filed a $50 million lawsuit against three officers linked to her son’s death. Nelda Kellom stated in her complaint that Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Mitchell Quinn had no reason or......
Arab American lawyer to file $50 million lawsuit over fatal shooting of unarmed man
April 5th, 20170 DETROIT — Nabih Ayad, a prominent Arab American civil rights lawyer and founder of the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL), will file a $50 million federal lawsuit at the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday, April 6, against ICE and Detroit police officers, who fatally shot an unarmed 20-year-old...
Abu Rayyan says he embarrassed Islam, sentencing postponed
April 2nd, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Monday, Khalil Abu Rayyan, a 22-year-old accused of supporting ISIS, told U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh that he embarrassed Islam during a hearing that ended with a postponed sentencing. "I never intended to hurt anyone," the Dearborn Heights man said. "My behavior caused embarrassment to myself, my......
