An Inkster woman is accused of using fraudulent MasterCard prepaid gift cards to buy items Sunday at Briarwood Mall, including a deep fryer, Ann Arbor police said. Tamesha Renee Byrd, 31, is charged with stealing or retaining a financial transaction device without consent and two counts of possessing a fraudulent ...
A Saline man is awaiting extradition to Michigan to face a host of fraud charges after being arrested Tuesday by fugitive investigators in Buffalo, N.Y. Curtis Wesley Sandig, 24, is charged with absconding from bond, two counts each of identity theft and using a computer to commit a crime, three ...
A developer who investigators say defrauded home buyers and subcontractors out of roughly $700,000 as he failed to complete an Ypsilanti Township condominium project several years ago was sentenced today to five years of probation, according to Washtenaw County Chief Deputy Assistant Prosecutor Steve Hiller. Robert Paul George, 63, of ...
Two men and a woman were arrested Tuesday night after they attempted to make roughly $1,200 in purchases at Sears using stolen credit cards, Ann Arbor police said. Officers tracked the three down at a gas station near the Briarwood Mall store after loss prevention officials reported the incident at ...
Two Maryland men convicted in a scheme that tried to bilk 21 black churches in Michigan — including three in Ypsilanti — out of about $660,000 have been sentenced to prison. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said in a statement that Michael Morris of Waldorf was sentenced Wednesday to up ...
Saline police say they arrested two Detroit women for trying to pass bad checks at a local bank as part of what they suspect is a broader fraud scheme. Police were called to the TCF Bank branch at 1301 E. Michigan Ave. shortly after 4 p.m. on Dec. 2 when ...
Milan police are trying to identify a man who stole thousands of dollars from two different banks with an altered out-of-state driver’s license. Authorities released surveillance camera images taken shortly after the man entered the Bank of America branch at 108 W. Main St. shortly after noon on Oct. 13 ...
A jury in Wayne County convicted two Maryland men of bilking 21 black churches across Michigan — including three in Ypsilanti — out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, a state attorney general's office news release said. Michael J. Morris, 30, of Waldorf, and William T. Perkins, 55, of Oxon ...
Two people provided false information on a credit card application to purchase nearly $1,000 in merchandise Monday at Sears in the Briarwood Mall, Ann Arbor police said. The man and woman bought the items between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. and left in a gray late model Chevrolet conversion van, ...
Saline police say they were unable to identify a suspect during their investigation into a fraud scheme that victimized a dozen residents of the Rolling Meadows Townhomes and have closed the case. Detective Don Lupi said investigators believe the identities of a dozen residents at the complex on the city’s north side ...
Two Ann Arbor residents and a Canton resident are accused of starting a scheme to cash fraudulent money orders with a face value of more that $530,000, according to the Observer & Eccentric. But Westland police say a suspicious store owner helped officers arrest the trio before the scheme got ...
Pittsfield Township police say hundreds of stolen credit cards were recovered from two Detroit men who attempted to purchase gift cards at a Meijer on Tuesday. Terrance Lewis, 21, and Travis McCoy, 19, are each charged with identity theft, possession of fraudulent financial transaction devices and attempting to retain a ...
He offered to help struggling homeowners save their Saline homes from foreclosure, but authorities say all Bryan Crevier delivered were empty promises and widespread fraud. Crevier, 48, is charged with multiple counts of larceny for allegedly swindling nearly $10,000 from three Saline women within a few months in 2008.
The Pittsfield Township Department of Public Safety and the Pittsfield Township Senior Citizens are holding an event on fraud prevention. The program will take place from 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, March 24 at Pittsfield Township Parks and Recreation, 701 Ellsworth Road. It is free and open to the public.
More witnesses testified Friday as prosecutors continue to pile up evidence against an Ypsilanti Township condominium developer accused of bilking $700,000 from prospective homeowners. Prosecutors also accused Robert George of participating in money-laundering schemes involving other failed real-estate projects that landed him in bankruptcy court.
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