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Mac Saturn cancels tour amid child porn scandal
The Detroit band says it will donate money to a charity for sexual abuse survivors after the arrest of its ex-keyboardist
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Michigan Music, Crime, Music, On Tour, Mac Saturn, Evan Mercer, FBI, Detroit rock bands
Macomb County porn star charged for role in Jan. 6 riot
The FBI said Paul Caloia bragged about participating in the riot on an intimate Skype chat
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Paul Caloia, Macomb County, Roseville, Jan. 6, insurrection, U.S. Capitol, FBI
Dirty Detroit cop sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for bribery in towing scandal
John F. Kennedy committed the crimes while he supposedly investigating police misconduct
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit Police Department, bribery, FBI, Operation Northern Hook, John F. Kennedy, towing industry, Detroit corruption
Michigan romance novel cover model-turned-insurrectionist sentenced to 3 years in prison for assaulting cops
Logan Barnhart dragged an officer down the steps of the Capitol and assaulted others with a flag pole
Tags: Michigan News, News, Insurrection, Jan. 6, Logan Banhart, Michigan, assault, Romance novels, model, body builder, Holt, FBI
Ex-House Speaker Rick Johnson, 3 others charged in cannabis bribery scandal
The Republican is accused of accepting more than $100,000 in bribes to provide licenses to medical marijuana businesses
Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, FBI, medical marijuana, Michigan, Rick Johnson, Republican, public corruption, Justice Department, lobbyists
Wayne County man who stormed U.S. Capitol sentenced to 9 months in prison
Anthony Puma entered the Capitol through a shattered window
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Anthony Puma, U.S. Capitol, Insurrection, Wayne County, Brownstown Township, Washington D.C.
Mom bought guns for man accused of threatening to kill Whitmer, Biden, FBI agents, LGBTQ people
Randall Robert Berka II is accused of making numerous threats using the handle ‘@killthefeds420’ on YouTube
Tags: Michigan News, News, Randall Robert Berka II, Gov. Whitmer, President Biden, threats, guns, LGBTQ, FBI, Sebawaing
Traverse City man pleads guilty to felony for his role in Jan. 6 insurrection
Luke Michal Lints faces up to five years in prison
Tags: Michigan News, News, Luke Michael Lints, Traverse City, michigan, assault, Jan. 6, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C., insurrection, FBI
Detroit Councilman Benson targeted for recall over tax incentives vote
The FBI raided Benson’s office and home in August 2021
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Politics & Elections, Detroit, Detroit City Council, Scott Benson, recall, petition drive, tax incentives, FBI, Hudson's
FBI arrests Wayne County cousins for joining violent mob during Jan. 6 insurrection
One of the officers cried out in a video, ‘We’re being trampled’
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, FBI, insurrection, U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, Kyle Mlynarek, Ronald Balhorn, Wayne County
Michigan couple lost grandma’s car after rioting at U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, FBI says
Isaac Thomas is also accused of striking officers with a flagpole and bottle
Tags: Michigan News, News, Donald Trump, Jan. 6, Insurrection, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C., assault, Isaac Thomas, Christina Legros
Top leaders in plot to kidnap Whitmer sentenced to prison
Barry Croft and Adam Fox were sentenced on charges of kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction
Tags: Michigan News, News, Whitmer, Wolverine Watchmen, FBI, Michigan
QAnon adherent from Michigan charged with threatening to kill a congressman and FBI director
He claimed a congressman, the FBI, CIA, actor Tom Cruise, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk were involved in a child slave rape ring
Tags: Michigan News, News, Donald Trump, QAnon, conspiracy theories, Grand Blanc, FBI, threats
Spying on the Queen of Soul
For 40 years, the FBI surveilled Aretha Franklin and other Black ‘radicals.’ We got the recently declassified files.
By Jenn Dize and Afeni Evans
Tags: Music News, Music, Longform, Aretha Franklin, Detroit, FBI, Queen of Soul civil rights movement, Cover Story
St. Clair County siblings charged with entering U.S. Capitol during Jan. 6 riot
The brother and sister are among 19 Michigan residents to be charged so far in connection with the insurrection
Tags: Michigan News, News, St. Clair County, insurrection, Jan. 6, U.S. Capitol, riot, Washington D.C., FBI
Whitmer kidnapping supporters convicted by jury
The three militia members were charged under Michigan’s Anti-Terrorism Act
Tags: Michigan News, News, Paul Bellar, Joseph Morrison, Pete Musico, Wolverine Watchmen, militia, jury, trial, Gov. Whitmer, FBI, Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General
Another crooked Detroit cop convicted in bribery scandal involving tow trucks
So far, the investigation has led to criminal charges against a former councilman and at least five cops
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit police, corruption, Operation Northern Hook, towing companies, Daniel Vickers, bribery, FBI, U.S. Attorney's office
Election tampering and an alleged prank call from Trump: The top 10 Metro Times headlines
Here’s what our readers were interested in this week
By Alex Washington
Tags: ICYMI, ICYMI, ShotSpotter, Donald Trump, President Trump, Republican, Insurrection, January 6, Election, Politics, Food, Dining, Detroit Dining
Michigan body builder pleads guilty to assaulting officers during Jan. 6 insurrection
Logan Barnhart faces up to 20 years for assaulting multiple officers.
Tags: Michigan News, News, Logan Barnhart, FBI, Justice Department, Jan. 6, insurrection, Donald Trump, assault, court
Tattooed Flint man pleads guilty to assaulting police at U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6
Online sleuths tracked down his identity with the help of a ‘Fuck you’ tattoo on his middle finger and nicknamed him ‘fingerman’
Tags: Michigan News, News, Justin Jersey, U.S. Capitol, Insurrection, Jan. 6, assault, FBI, Justice Department
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming
Black women-owned cannabis cultivator Calyxeum opens its first dispensary in Detroit
By Layla McMurtrie