A Pittsfield Township man has been convicted of traveling to New York last year to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he met in an online chat room. Muchamad Syaugy Ali Syech pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Detroit to one count of interstate travel with intent to engage ...
He is expected to take the stand next month as seven Hutaree militia members - who sometimes trained in Washtenaw County - go on trial in federal court on charges including seditious conspiracy and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.
David Stone Jr. Defense attorneys for Hutaree militia member David Stone Jr. filed a motion Monday, asking the government to disclose the identities of two confidential informants that the FBI relied upon when it began formally investigating Hutaree in 2008. The "motion for disclosure and production of confidential informants" was ...
A former University of Michigan assistant biology professor wanted on child porn charges has left his job at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Tzvi Tzfira, 43, cited personal reasons when he announced earlier this month that he was leaving his post as an associate professor in the Department ...
Federal prosecutors have dismissed a gun charge against Hutaree militia member David Brian Stone Jr. Prosecutors filed a motion Friday in federal court in Detroit that says "the ends of justice would best be served by this dismissal." It does not elaborate.
A former assistant biology professor at the University of Michigan who is facing federal child pornography charges is considered a fugitive, said Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney’s office in Detroit. Tzvi Tzfira, 43, was charged in February in a federal criminal complaint with distribution of child pornography ...
A man affiliated with the militia movement who was arrested on an ammunition charge last year after he was accused of making threats against President Obama, can't be forcibly medicated by the government, a judge has ruled. John Maurice Stephenson, 64, of Hillsdale, who is awaiting trial on a charge ...
The FBI is investigating a report of a possible hate crime Sunday in Ann Arbor, said FBI Special Agent Sandra Berchtold, a bureau spokeswoman in Detroit. About 9:15 a.m. Sunday, a Muslim woman called 911, reporting she was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Eisenhower Parkway and ...
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The FBI is assisting the Ann Arbor Police Department in the investigation into six recent attacks on women in Ann Arbor, including two rapes, FBI officials confirmed today. FBI Special Agent Sandra Berchtold, a bureau spokeswoman in Detroit, said AAPD contacted the FBI for assistance, but she could not discuss ...
A Pittsfield Township woman found dead Thursday in an Indiana pond died of asphyxiation and her death has been ruled a homicide, autopsy results show. The autopsy on 45-year-old Dawn Marie Fital was conducted this morning at the Lake County morgue in Indiana, said P.J. Adams, the county's chief deputy ...
A Pittsfield Township man accused of killing his girlfriend Monday at their apartment and then disposing of her body in an Indiana pond is being held without bond after being arraigned this morning at the Washtenaw County Jail.
A Pittsfield Township man accused of killing his girlfriend Monday at their apartment and then disposing of her body in an Indiana pond waived extradition today and will return to Michigan to face charges, authorities said.
Attorneys for Hutaree militia member David Stone Jr. recently filed a motion asking the court to consider terminating a number of bond conditions imposed on him as he awaits trial on charges, including seditious conspiracy. The motion asks the court to modify or terminate conditions subjecting him to home confinement, ...
A man accused of phoning in a bomb threat to the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority on Friday morning is being held at the Washtenaw County Jail, jail officials said this morning. Robert Allen Braun, 38, of Ypsilanti, was arraigned Saturday at the jail on a charge of filing a false ...
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