June 21, 2004
Aggravated assaults reported Six reports of aggravated assault were filed with the Department of Public Safety (DPS) in May. A 22-year-old student from Comstock Park was arrested May 16 for felonious assault after he was observed shooting fireworks off a South State Street apartment balcony shortly after 2 a.m. One of the firecrackers exploded above…
May 24, 2004
Crime alert issued Two early-morning robberies were reported near campus May 9. In separate but related incidents, two men each reported they had been walking on the sidewalk shortly after midnight when they were approached by five young men. Each victim reported being punched and ordered to surrender money and property. The incidents occurred in…
April 19, 2004
Student arrested with replica gun John Conover V, an undergraduate student from New Jersey, has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, a four-year felony, after a motorist reported March 28 that he had been struck in the face by an object as he drove by the West Quad residence hall. Conover was scheduled…
March 22, 2004
Man arrested for check forgery Tierra Webster, 22, of Ypsilanti, was arrested Feb. 5 after he tried to cash a stolen check at the Comerica Bank in the Wolverine Tower building. Webster remains in the Washtenaw County Jail awaiting his pre-trial conference on five charges: uttering and publishing, a 14-year felony; forgery, a 14-year felony;…
March 15, 2004
Man arrested for check forgery Tierra Webster, 22, of Ypsilanti, was arrested Feb. 5 after he tried to cash a stolen check at the Comerica Bank in the Wolverine Tower building. Webster remains in the Washtenaw County Jail awaiting his pre-trial conference on five charges: uttering and publishing, a 14-year felony; forgery, a 14-year felony;…
March 8, 2004
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March 1, 2004
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February 16, 2004
Restaurant robbery suspect arrested Joseph Williams, 25, of Ypsilanti was arrested Jan. 21 in connection with a robbery that occurred earlier that day at the McDonald’s restaurant in Pierpont Commons. Williams, who remains in jail, has been charged with unarmed robbery, a 15-year felony, and larceny from a person, a 10-year felony. His preliminary exam…
January 26, 2004
Fight results in injury, arrest Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers responded to a call Dec. 3 of a fight in progress near West Hall. Officers found one person with non-life-threatening injuries, but he would not provide a statement to the police. A 20-year-old Ypsilanti man was arrested at the scene for aggravated assault. Two…
January 19, 2004
Fight results in injury, arrest Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers responded to a call Dec. 3 of a fight in progress near West Hall. Officers found one person with non-life-threatening injuries, but he would not provide a statement to the police. A 20-year-old Ypsilanti man was arrested at the scene for aggravated assault. Two…
