METRO DETROIT CRIME & POLICE

The Latest Crime & Police News from Metro Detroit

Authorities have identified a man who died after being Tasered by police as 61-year-old Jesus Gillard of Detroit.  Full story »

A former Detroit resident has been charged in the 16-year-old slaying of a man whose body was found wrapped in a curtain and dumped in a field. Detroit police say in a release Friday that "cold case" investigators identified Leslie Bryant Wilson and tracked the 42-year-old to Georgia, where he has been living since 1999. Wilson faces a Nov. 30... Full story »

Doctors say a Detroit woman is going to need plastic surgery after another woman took a knife and slashed her across her face and down to her neck. WXYZ reports that the slashing took place at the El Capri nightclub on the city's east side. Police say the assailant, 39-year-old Latanya Richer, was upset that the woman was dating... Full story »

Police say a Pontiac man repeatedly assaulted a 19-year-old woman with a mental disability. Full story »

Daniel Allen of Clinton Township -- accused of biting his neighbor on the lip -- this week in Macomb County Circuit Court pleaded not guilty to several charges, including possession or use of a harmful device: HIV. Full story »

The Dearborn Heights Police Department has issued an Amber Alert for Grace McKenzie Tardiff, a one-year-old who may be with her mother, Megan Tardiff, recently released from a hospital for psychological issues. Full story »

Police say a man they believe was on drugs led them on a high-speed chase and died Thursday night after officers used a Taser to subdue him. Full story »

A pair of 17-year-olds accused of taking a man from a fast food restaurant parking lot and killing him hours later will go to trial on murder charges in suburban Detroit. Full story »

Robert Bopp, the Michigan hall of fame high school hockey coach accused of paying a teen boy for oral sex, pleaded guilty today of child pornography charges in federal court. Full story »

The body of 21-year-old Matt Landry was found in August, four days after he was last seen outside a Quiznos shop in Eastpointe. Full story »

"He got on his knees and begged, 'No, Daddy, No,' and he pulled the trigger." Full story »

A sentencing hearing for a Michigan teen who police say shot and killed a 14-year-old from Alabama outside a church has been pushed back to next week. Eighteen-year-old James Cecil Willis III of Pontiac was scheduled to appear Wednesday before Oakland County Circuit Judge Wendy Potts. But the hearing was reset for Nov. 25. Willis pleaded no contest last month... Full story »

Police say Willis was a member of the Goon Squad gang and fired a gun into a crowd outside a Pontiac church in 2008. Dawan Allan-France Roberson of Akron, Ala., was killed. Full story »

Thieves in downtown Detroit broke in to more than 4 cars per day between Oct. 1 and Nov. 11, an anonymous police source told WDIV. Full story »

Relatives say Jamar Pinkney Sr. on Monday forced his 15-year-old son to strip, led him at gunpoint to an abandoned lot near his mother's house in Highland Park and shot him execution-style while he begged for his life. Family members say the father's girlfriend had accused the teen of acting inappropriately with her three-year-old child. Full story »