The knife had been similarly concealed under the insole of the man’s shoe when he left Alabama for a fishing trip three days before he was detained at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
After a WXYZ news crew knocked repeatedly at the door of an 88-year-old crime victim who had been tied up and robbed at gunpoint, he answered with a gun in his hand and fired from about 10 feet away, police say.
Hilton Napoleon told reporters that limited resources and the point-blank murder of a 2-year-old led to his resignation. WXYZ says it has obtained a report suggesting the beleaguered chief might have been fired if he hadn’t.
An off-duty officer attending church Sunday was called into service when a man wielding a hatchet showed up.
Inkster Police Chief Hilton Napoleon said he's been thinking about resigning for some time because he said budget cuts have crippled his department's effectiveness, but the "senseless murder" of a 2-year-old made the decision easier.
Inkster residents aren’t strangers to violence. But after a shooting snuffed out a 2-year-old’s life, the Downriver community’s top cop sent a stern message “to all the wannabe thugs, hoodlums and drug pushers that we're going to get you.”
“I can’t believe someone would kill an innocent child,” a witness said. “We’ve got to do something about all of this violence over there.”
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office is expected to file charges against a 20-year-old woman who reported stabbed another student in an altercation on a campus officials said is normally peaceful.
The general manager of Cornerstone University's WCSG asked listeners to "pray in earnest" for Balyo, his family, the radio station family and, "most certainly ... the victims."
A woman well-known to Detroit’s animal-rescue community simply needed help caring for the cats, but neighbors said the smell was so horrific they couldn’t enjoy their back yards.
Two weeks after a Detroit woman’s decomposing body was discovered, her children are still missing. Her loved ones have launched a change.org petition to force Michigan State Police to issue an Amber Alert.
Detroit police are enforcing a curfew this year at Ford’s 56th annual fireworks today.
The Innocence Project at a Lansing law school says DNA testing excludes Donya Davis as a suspect in 2006 crime, but the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office says that doesn’t mean he has been cleared. A new trial has been ordered.
The search for two children whose murdered mother’s body was dumped in an abandoned house entered its second full week Tuesday. Searchers in the area surrounding River Rouge Park made a disturbing find..
Whether Canadian kayaker needed to relieve himself or just wanted play three-card poker at a Detroit casino, sex offender and convicted felon Jack Bishop has been prohibited for nearly a decade from entering the United States
Detroit police said they're "diligently working to identify more suspects" in an unprovoked attack that left a gay Detroit man with a broken hand, ruptured eye and other injuries. Authorities are treating the attack as a hate crime.
Erin Justice, the father of one of Alicia Fox's two children, will be extradited from Georgia to Detroit, where he will face murder charges. Police said their priority is now on locating the missing kids.
A #JusticeForChongLee hashtag has been established on Twitter for users to show their support for Christin Howard, who said he was attacked by a group of men at the Motor City Pride Festival because he is gay.
The FBI and state officials have joined the search for Kaylah Hunter, 6, and Kristan Justice, 6 months, children of a woman who died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Dek: “If I walk in to a massage parlor and the masseuse is wearing questionable attire you have to question what exactly is going on,” Wyandotte Police Chief Daniel Grant says.
Drug kingpin Carlos Powell had $750,000 cash on him when U.S. marshals caught up with him in Missouri.
A pleasant Friday afternoon on Detroit’s west side turned gruesome when the neighbor followed his nose.
Southgate police are looking for a 2001 black Ford Taurus with Michigan license plate No. BVK 7800. It was among the items stolen as thieves ransacked the home of a woman they had blindfolded, tied up and gagged.
When two would-be robbers fired at 51-year-old grandmother of four, she emptied the chamber of her gun.
A man who had bedded down in a large metal trash bin Thursday night awoke Friday morning just has he was being dumped into a garbage truck.
A woman thought she’d found an affordable home for her and her 2-year-old, who she said was forced to watch as she was sexually assaulted.
Steven Utash's daughter says her dad will be transferred to a rehabilitation center that specializes in neurological damage and memory injuries.
Steven Utash remains hospitalized with severe head injuries after an April 2 mob attack.
A boy who ran away from his special-needs school allegedly cursed at and assaulted a police officer, then broke a camera in the back seat of a police car as he was transported back to school.
Eyerolls and snickers by convicted killer Camia Gamet, 31, during a victim impact statement prompted a strong words by Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain.
A 40-year-old man who police found inside a vacant house had been kicked out of a friend's house two days earlier for drinking.
The Transportation Security Administration encourages travelers to carefully check their luggage before leaving for the airport to ensure they're not carrying something that might be confiscated.
Federal prosecutors say the former top aide to Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurance fund to pay for hair plugs, a convertible and a timeshare in the Caribbean, among other lurxuries.
Michele Rydlicki faces three felony charges of second-degree child abuse, a felony charge of delivery of a controlled substance and a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Three homes that burned over the last two weeks were vacant. "If they were occupied you would e talking about attempted murder," said a resident who believes arson was involved.
Detroit police said they found a few dead dogs at River Rouge Park, but said reports from an animal welfare group were based on a misunderstanding.
A Wyandotte woman reportedly told police her boyfriend wanted to use their car to visit another girlfriend and that’s why she pushed and bit him.
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star Mariska Hargitay joins Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy at a news conference announcing new legislation that would set strict deadlines on testing sexual assault kits.
A Michigan woman was sentenced to a year in prison for fraud.
The following information was supplied by the Wyandotte Police Department.