A 17-year-old male died shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday, Friday, May 18 after being shot multiple times around 5:27 p.m. in West Bloomfield Township. The alleged shooter is the 74-year-old grandmother of the victim, identified around 11:45 a.m. today, Saturday, May 19 as Jonathan Archer Hoffman, believed to be a high school senior in the Farmington School District, according to police. Officers responding to the scene last night took the alleged shooter to a local [...]

Wixom police are investigating a Sunday, May 6 breaking and entering incident that is believed to be a copycat crime related to two incidents that occurred in April. The victim resides in the Village Apartments in the 35000 block of Tamarack. According to police reports, the tenant who had just moved in on May 6 reported seeing a white male’s hand slide open a bedroom window and try to pull the blind string. The woman [...]

 Two jewelry thefts took place within a few days of each during the last week at a K-mart on Highland Road in White Lake Township. The first theft occurred sometime between Wednesday, May 9 and Thursday, May 10. Approximately $5,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from the display case which had been opened. Then, sometime between Sunday, May 13 and Monday, May 14, another jewelry theft occurred. This time, $8,000 worth of jewelry was [...]

The student allegedly responsible for making threats at Walled Lake Northern High School — including an incident today, Wednesday, May 9, and one last week — has been apprehended, according to Walled Lake Northern Principal Greg Diamond. On Thursday, May 3, Northern’s staff and students were evacuated from the building around noon after a “non-specific threat” had been discovered in a girls’ restroom. The threat was immediately reported to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department, which [...]

Waterford Township police report that a pair of hold-ups during the early morning hours of Saturday, April 28 are being treated as related incidents, although both remain under investigation. During the first incident that occurred near the area of Tilden and LaSalle, a 45-year-old man was walking around 2 a.m. when he was approached by a pair of black males, according to a Waterford Police Department report. One of the suspects was described as standing [...]

A purse bandit is on the loose targeting patrons at various daycare facilities in Waterford Township. According to township police, two separate incidents occurred at daycares in close proximity to one another on April 9 and may be related to an earlier incident that transpired in January. According to police reports, on Jan. 11 around 5:30 p.m., a 36-year-old Waterford woman was picking up her child up from a daycare facility in the 2700 block [...]

A second fatal accident in as many nights occurred in Waterford Township on Sashabaw Road near Meigs Avenue on Monday, April 30. According to Waterford Township police, 37-year-old Waterford resident Steven James Watkins was driving a 2000 Chevy Blazer northbound on Sashabaw when the vehicle he was driving crossed the center line and struck a southbound 1995 Ford F-350 box truck driven by a White Lake Township man, 36, who was taken to a nearby [...]

A home in the 3000 block of Airport Road in Waterford Township has been condemned due to unsanitary conditions that township officials say are the result of 30 cats living at the house. Officers were dispatched on Thursday, April 24 to the residence and spoke with the 59-year-old Taylor woman who reported the incident. The woman stated she had come to the house to purchase a particular breed of cat, a snow leopard, from the [...]

A teenager was killed the evening of Sunday, April 29 and a woman was listed in stable condition as a result of a collision that occurred at the intersection at Highland (M-59) and Pontiac Lake roads in Waterford Township. The 16-year-old male was driving a 2007 Pontiac G6 that was reported stolen last month out of Orion Township, according to Waterford Police Chief Dan McCaw. Apparently the teen was driving eastbound on Highland Road at [...]

A second suspect has been taken into custody for his alleged role in the Dec. 23, 2011 Rolladium skating rink shooting spree in which five people were wounded. According to the Waterford Township Police Department, Tre-Andis Marquan-Jose Jamison, a 21-year-old Pontiac resident, was arrested without incident on Monday, April 23 by members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Atlanta Field Office in Gwinnett County, Georgia, where he is currently being held on charges of [...]