Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Embezzlement Said to Total Over $20 Million Michael Anthony LaJoice, the Fenton businessman who owns Chasse Ballroom and Latin Dance Studio and LaJoice Properties LLC, is being charged with embezzlement. According to his defense attorney, LaJoice recently decided to turn himself in to police. However, the reason for this sudden attack of conscience has not […]

Imlay City Man Charged with Sixteen Felonies Including Trafficking and Harboring a Runaway In addition to the substantial charges that 49-year-old Roger Reid from Imlay City is already facing, authorities have now added a further sixteen felonies to that count. Reid is accused of harboring an underaged runaway from Detroit, and also of trafficking her […]

Grandfather Charged with Open Murder in Death of Grandson At a recent court hearing, it was explained to the Judge that Bruce Embry had shot his grandson in the head. He had even admitted it to the police who arrived on the scene, after someone called in a domestic disturbance concern in Kalamazoo just days […]

Rep. Phelps Wants Criminal Penalties for Data Manipulation At this point, you would have to be living in a shack in the woods somewhere, to have gone without at least hearing about the water crisis in Flint. It’s a poisonous topic, no pun intended, that’s been given a great deal of airtime in recent months. Not […]

Murder Suspect Fled the Country On August 21st, 1982, Salwa Isaac was found dead in a ditch along the roadside in Mundy Township near Flint by two women riding horses. She had been reported missing by colleagues who said she had missed several days of work. Law enforcement were able to determine that she had […]

Kiefer Olger, a 27-year-old Lansing resident and self-professed full time drug dealer, was recently sentenced in the Ingham County Circuit Court for causing a man’s death. According to the prosecutor, it was Olger’s heroin that killed 20-year-old Jonathan Singer, which is why he is considered to be guilty of murder.

It has been decades since the United States Supreme Court put a ban on pay-or-stay sentencing, which put people behind bars if they are unable to pay a fine. But just because the High Court says no to the pay-up-or-go-to-jail method of justice, that doesn’t mean a handful of judges around the mitten state aren’t […]

Murder Charges Could Mean Life in Prison A shooting in Inkster has resulted in one man dead and another facing murder charges that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Brandon Oscar Leroy Benson, a 22-year-old Detroit man, has been arraigned on murder charges in the Inkster District Court. He is […]

Criminal Justice Reform at the Top of Governor’s List Criminal Justice Reform was one of the many things that Governor Snyder had hoped to tackle in 2015. But with the number of other things that took priority, in the end it was shelved and bumped forward to 2016. Well, folks, it is officially 2016, and […]

Uncle Shows Police How He Smothered Baby A 5-month-old baby is dead from being smothered, and both the father and the uncle are facing charges as a result. But not for the same thing. Once is accused of murder, while the other is charged with lying to cover it up.