By Ian Perrotta It looks like details of the kidnapping and murder of Abreeya Brown and Ashley Conaway won’t become available until next week. On Thursday (April 19) attorneys for the five men charged with their deaths asked for more time to prepare their defense. The preliminary examination was rescheduled for next Tuesday (April 24) [...]
By Alan Madeleine Crime Log this week is taken from Police Intelligence Reports from between the dates of Thursday, April 5 and Tuesday, April 10. Please enjoy. From Thursday, April 5: Numerous power tools were recovered by police from an address in the 11400 block of Mackay. They were tagged into evidence. There was [...]
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck taxpayers, want to know what city attorneys are billing you? Well, forget it. According to City Attorney James Allen, of the Allen Brothers law firm, the monthly bills he submits to the city outlining what cases and issues he worked on and how much he and other attorneys in his law [...]
By Charles Sercombe It took a few weeks and some strange twists and turns, but on Tuesday, Acting City Manager Erik Tungate finally got an employment contract. It was rumored that his contract would once again be held up at Tuesday’s city council meeting, but Councilmember Anam Miah dropped his opposition to hiring Tungate and [...]
When are public records open for the public to view? There are a lot of exemptions when it comes to restricting public records, according to the Freedom of Information Act. And over the years, politicians and their cronies have managed to keep more and more so-called public documents under wraps. But that doesn’t mean all [...]
April 7, 2012 By Charles Sercombe In a stunning development, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced this morning in a press conference held in Hamtramck City Hall that five men are being charged with the murder of two Hamtramck women. Included in the murder charge, all five are also being accused of torture. It was [...]
By Alan Madeleine Crime Log is a snappy little compilation of the more interesting or pertinent items from police incident reports from between the dates of Wednesday, March 28 and Wednesday, April 4. From Wednesday, March 28: A man reported that his girlfriend intentionally rammed his car with her own, after she had already [...]
When it comes to good food and great times, Hamtramck has plenty to offer. In this column, we’ll talk about what’s happening at our bars, restaurants and other events that can be found throughout the city. By Alan Madeleine Who are you inviting to your Dingus Day? More formally known as Easter Monday (the day [...]
By Charles Sercombe After two weeks of trying, Acting City Manager Erik Tungate still can’t get an employment contract from the city council. In what has been a road of twists and turns and political theater, the city council at first refused to act on an employment contract for Tungate, and then in the past [...]
By Greg Kowalski “A man holds dear what little is left. When much is lost, there is no risking the remainder.” Oscar Handling wrote those words in “The Uprooted,” his classic book on immigration. His topic was religion, and how it played a crucial role in the lives of the immigrants. Consider that it was [...]
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