Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Kalamazoo Woman Arrested on Warrant There has been a long standing joke about the fact that a person needs a license to drive a car, own a dog and catch a fish, but anyone can have a child. However, while dog licenses may be something of a joking matter to some people, Becky Rehr isn’t […]

Illegal Immigrant Charged in Kidnapping of 13-year-old On July 7th, a 13-year-old girl was reported missing to Florida’s Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Very little has been revealed about the ensuing investigation. Or even about where police got their tips. But within days, authorities in Florida were told that the missing girl was likely in a […]

Michigan Cancels Contract with Aramark 2 Years Early There are countless reasons to avoid jail. Aside from the costs involved when you lose your job because you will be unable to show up for months on end, there is the issue of your family. A parent who is sent to jail has to worry about […]

In March of this year, a new law went into effect that allows municipalities around the state to request that a judge declare a home to be a “public nuisance”, and have it locked up. This court order would render the house vacant and then sealed up for a full year. But to earn this […]

Former Postal Worker Indicted  In 1986, in Edmond, Oklahoma, 14 postal workers were shot dead and another 6 wounded by Patrick Sherrill, a postal worker who succumbed to uncontrollable workplace rage. After his terrifying shooting spree, Sherrill killed himself. Over the next decade or so there were at least 20 incidents in which postal workers […]

Tax Fraud Conviction Likely to Result in Prison Time Happy Asker, the Detroit-based founder of Happy’s Pizza, is due in court for sentencing. As a result of having allegedly under-reported income and defrauded the government out of millions of dollars, he has been convicted on a single charge of conspiracy, along with 32 counts of […]

Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws Under National Scrutiny About a month ago we revisited this highly volatile subject, updating you on where we were as a state on the subject, and what changes were hoped for in the future. But the five bills still working their way through the legislature have yet to amount to anything, […]

For those of you who don’t watch CSI or Law & Order, a cold case is a crime that has gone unsolved for years, sometimes decades. It is considered one of the hardest types of crimes to solve, simply because the evidence is usually lost, forgotten or irrevocably damaged. Add to that the fact that […]

Was it Really Fleeing and Eluding? DaJuawn Wallace was making a quick trip to the store to pick up medicine for his girlfriend, when he noticed the headlights of a vehicle behind him speeding up. It was dark and almost 2 a.m. at the time. Wallace didn’t want to be involved in an accident, so […]

Teens Arrested For Making False Terror Threats To Michigan High Schools You probably did it as a kid. Back in the days before caller ID, kids would call people up and pretend to be someone else, trying to get the person they called to agree to something silly. Or trick them into saying something embarrassing. […]