In The Media

Read More! January 4, 2022 | By Daniel T. Geherin

The murder trial of a Tecumseh man accused of killing his wife, then making it look like a suicide, is getting national attention and could last up to three weeks. A jury was seated last week and attorneys for both sides have completed their opening state...

Read More! January 3, 2022 | By Daniel T. Geherin

WASHTENAW COUNTY., MI – Depending on who’s asked, James Schiel either fired seven shots above his family member’s heads, or seven shots into the air after a family dispute reached its boiling point. Schiel, 49, faces four felony counts o...

Read More! January 3, 2022 | By Daniel T. Geherin

One of two suspects in the 2017 murder of Egypt Covington was arraigned on Sunday, Nov. 8, the Detroit Free Press reports. Timothy Eugene Moore, 34, of Toledo, Ohio was arraigned in 34th District Court in Romulus, Michigan State Police said in a tweet. Mo...

Read More! November 21, 2017

A retired Ann Arbor police officer was arraigned Tuesday, Nov. 21 on one count of open murder in the death of his 63-year-old wife . Kent Neigebauer, 66, is accused of fatally strangling his wife, Marcia Neigebauer, at their Pittsfield Township apart...

Read More! August 17, 2017 | By Darcie Moran

ANN ARBOR, MI - A former University of Michigan student in the ROTC program was arrested on sex assault charges Tuesday, Aug. 15 when he returned from Taiwan to the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Jimmy H. Nguyen, 36, was arraigned Wednesday in two cases on...

Read More! April 13, 2017

Michigan’s cycling community was outraged Thursday after a 70-year-old Lima Township man was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $3,000 in fines and court costs in the  Aug. 26 death of Ann Arbor triathlete Karen McKeachie. McKeachie, 63,...

Read More! March 6, 2017 | By John Counts

CHELSEA, MI - A 70-year-old driver accused of hitting and killing Ann Arbor triathlete Karen McKeachie pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor Monday, March 6. Terry Lee Lacroix said few words during his hearing before Judge Richard Conlin in Chelsea's 14...

Read More! September 22, 2015 | By John Counts

For five years, Michigan police have been writing tickets under the state's "super drunk" driving law. But has it helped to keep Michigan roads safer? That's hard to say. Alcohol-related crashes have gone down slightly across the state s...

Read More! July 21, 2015 | By Lindsay Knake

Brian Tungl appears in Washtenaw County 14A-1 District Court on May 5, 2015 for a probable cause hearing. The former Dexter schools employee faces charges of embezzling $100,000 or more and unauthorized access of computers.  (Darcie Moran | The Ann A...

Read More! June 20, 2015 | By John Counts

The 22-year-old Ann Arbor man accused of attacking a woman he followed off a bus was arraigned on four felonies at the 14A-1 District Court Saturday. Louis Flanders was charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm, assault by strangulation, se...

Read More! April 15, 2015 | By Darcie Moran

A 20-year-old Ann Arbor man police believe did significant damage to buildings with graffiti has entered into a sentence agreement for sexual assault and malicious destruction of a building. Clark Fischer, who was previously convicted of distributing or p...

Read More! January 16, 2014 | By Ben Freed

The man accused of shooting 25-year-old Chicago-area resident Marty LaBelle inside Rush Street in downtown Ann Arbor in the early morning hours of Oct. 27 will likely have a jury trial in March. Zachary Finneren, 25, has been charged with six counts inclu...

Read More! December 16, 2013 | By Kyle Feldscher

The man accused of shooting a Chicago-area man at an Ann Arbor bar in late October will stand trial after a district court judge decided to send the case to circuit court Thursday. Zachary Finneren, 25-year-old man of Romulus, is charged with six felonies...

Read More! September 7, 2012 | By Kyle Feldscher

Brendan Lathrop  will serve between five and 10 years in prison after he admitted giving his friend  Nicholas Belanger,  a former high school hockey coach, the heroin that caused a fatal overdose. Lathrop, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of...

Read More! September 4, 2012

A 68-year-old  Ypsilanti Township  resident was sentenced Tuesday to serve two years of probation and pay more than $8,000 in restitution to the victim in a May stabbing incident.   Earl Stegall  pleaded no contest to charges of assaul...

Read More! January 22, 2012 | By Danielle Salisbury

An attorney who filed a Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission complaint against District Judge Joseph Filip for his treatment of undocumented immigrants argues immigration issues are exclusively federal concerns.  “(Filip’s) practice c...

Read More! September 16, 2010 | By Art Aisner

A jury on Wednesday acquitted  Chelsea  resident  Eric Smallwood  on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from his role in a motorcycle crash that killed two teenagers in  Sharon Township  in 2008. Smallwood,...

Read More! May 26, 2010 | By Tom Gantert

Drunken driving arrests are down in Ann Arbor, but police officials aren't sure why.  In the past five years, drunken driving arrests have fallen about 28 percent, a gradual decline each year that officials say could be tied to better awareness o...