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52 Years In Jail For Confessed Hit Man
A Detroit hit man who pleaded guilty to killing eight people has been sentenced to 52 years in prison after a sharp rebuke from a judge who felt there wasn’t enough remorse. The 52-year minimum...
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Niles Teen Guilty Of Murder In Grandpa's Killing
A 14-year-old from Niles has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his grandfather. Dakotah Eliason was charged as an adult in the March 7 shooting death of 69-year-old...
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Teen Sentenced For Killing Dog With Hammer
A 15-year-old boy who broke into a Kentwood home and killed a family’s dog with a hammer has been sentenced to spend up to 20 years in prison. Jonathan Castelan was sentenced Wednesday in Kent County...
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Coach Found Guilty On Sex Charges
A former basketball coach at Dundee Middle School has been found guilty of four felonies in connection with a months-long relationship that began last year with a 13-year-old girl. A Monroe County...
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Jailtime For Dad Who Used Daughter As Shield
A judge in Mount Clemens has sentenced a father to a year in jail and parenting classes after he used his 2-year-old daughter as a shield during a confrontation with a Taser-wielding police officer....
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Guilty Pleas Expected In Point Shaving Case
A plea bargain is in the works for four former athletes charged in a point-fixing scheme at the University of Toledo. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Morris said during a brief court hearing more than a...
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Carlson Pleads Guilty To Burning Baby’s Feet
DETROIT (WWJ) A Roseville man has pleaded guilty to an unthinkable crime: burning the feet of his girlfriend’s baby with a lighter. Twenty-year-old Scott Carlson was arrested on Christmas day, after...
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Jury Convicts Husband In Stabbing Death Of Wife
DETROIT (WWJ) – It took just 90 minutes for an Oakland County Circuit Court jury to convict a man of stabbing his wife to death, even though the defendant claimed he did it in self-defense. Ellery...
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Former Prosecutor Pleads Guilty To Misconduct
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – The Detroit-area’s former top drug prosecutor has pleaded guilty to misconduct in office for covering up the role of a paid police informant in a major cocaine bust. Karen Plants’...
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Attorney Pleads Guilty, Smuggled Xanax Into Jail
PONTIAC (AP) – A suburban Detroit attorney who authorities say smuggled Xanax pills and chewing tobacco pouches into Oakland County Jail to her incarcerated fiance has pleaded guilty in the case. The...
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Texting Driver Pleads Guilty To Causing Fatal Accident
LAPEER (WWJ/AP) – A Lapeer man who police say caused a fatal crash while texting and driving has made a guilty plea. Forty-one-year-old Jerry Joseph pleaded guilty on Thursday to a moving violation...
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14-Year-Old Boy Pleads Guilty To Rape, Kidnapping
DETROIT (AP) – A 14-year-old Detroit boy has pleaded guilty to rape and kidnapping charges for an attack on a 26-year-old female pedestrian. Police say the boy walked behind the woman on a northwest...
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Misconduct Charge Against Retired Judge Dismissed
DETROIT (AP) - The final felony misconduct charge has been dismissed against a retired Detroit area judge accused of neglecting her duties by allowing perjured testimony during a 2005 drug trial. In an...
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Ex-NFL Player Aaron Hernandez Convicted Of 1st-Degree Murder
MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in a deadly late-night shooting, sealing...
View ArticleBackpage CEO Faces Prison Time After Pleading Guilty
Many are calling it a step in the right direction. The CEO of Backpage.com has pleaded guilty in Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday his office’s prosecution of Backpage.com has...
View ArticleMan Found Guilty In Death Of 3-Year-Old Boy Who Found Gun
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — A 29-year-old man faced sentencing Thursday morning and was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a 3-year-old boy who fatally shot himself with a gun that was dropped on the...
View ArticleMan Pleads Guilty To Carving Gang Name Into Teen’s Chest
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit man has pleaded guilty to carving a local gang’s name into a 15-year-old boy’s chest. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that 37-year-old Doniel A. Heard of Canton...
View ArticleJury Convicts Man In Slaying Of Michigan State Student
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man was found guilty of murder Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a Michigan State University student outside an off-campus apartment building. Isai Berrones, 22, of Alamo,...
View ArticleFormer Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith Pleads Guilty To Obstruction
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — A former suburban Detroit prosecutor pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstructing justice in an investigation of how he spent campaign donations. Eric Smith, who was Macomb...
View ArticleMan Pleads Guilty In Conspiracy To Kidnap Gov. Whitmer
DETROIT (AP) — One of six men charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, admitting that the group discussed an incredible scheme to...
View ArticleMan Pleads Guilty In Attack On Black Teen At Michigan Beach
DETROIT (AP) — A white man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime after a Black teen was attacked in a southeastern Michigan park and hit in the face with a bicycle lock. Lee Mouat, 43, entered the...
View ArticleGov. Whitmer, Lt. Gov. Gilchrist, SOS Benson React To Derek Chauvin Guilty...
(CBS DETROIT/AP) – Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued statements Tuesday after the guilty verdict was delivered in the trial of Derek...
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