In January, three men allegedly broke into a woman’s Kalamazoo Township apartment committing home invasion, rape, and kidnapping. Now, 32-year-old Danny Paul Vinson has been found guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and other charges. On Monday, Vinson was sentenced to 62 years in prison by Kalamazoo County Circuit Court…
On Wednesday July 31, 54-year-old Kassam Hallak was sentenced by Eaton County Circuit Court Judge Janice Cunningham to seven to 15 years in prison for sexual assault. Hallak, a physician at the Charlotte Medical Center and Urgent Care, has now lost his medical license. He was convicted in June for…
On Wednesday July 24, Donald L. Perkins was arraigned on numerous charges in connection with a nationwide prostitution sting including kidnapping and human trafficking. While Perkins is being held without bond, authorities now believe that there may have been more girls working for him than first believed. Investigations are ongoing…
On Monday July 15, David J. Zuriel Jr. pleaded no contest to three counts of third-degree CSC by force or coercion before Saginaw County Circuit Judge Robert L. Kaczmarek. Zuriel was initially charged by prosecutors with three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against someone under the age of 13…
On Thursday July 11, Jackson County Circuit Judge Thomas Wilson sentenced William Lindemeyer to 14 to 30 years in prison after the defendant pleaded no contest to third-degree criminal sexual conduct in May. Lindemeyer allegedly sexually assaulted a girl who was 9 years old at the time, forcing himself on…
On June 26, Oakland County sheriff’s deputies responded to McLaren Hospital after a 14-year-old Pontiac girl claimed she had been abducted by two teen males and raped the night before. Now, sheriff’s officials believe the story was an elaborate lie. The girl claimed that after being abducted by the teens,…
Chad Eric Servis, a 42-year-old Wyoming resident, was recently charged with two counts of accosting children for immoral purposes as a repeat offender after allegedly attempting to get three boys who were under the age of 16 to go with him to a secluded area of Ideal Park. The boys…
Steven M. McAllister, a 55-year-old Kalamazoo resident, will likely spend 10 to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to sexual assault and child pornography on Friday June 7 in Kalamazoo County Court. McAllister, a Kalamazoo Public School custodian, was charged with ten felony offenses including two counts of…
Tyler D. Hardy, an 18-year-old Buena Vista Township man, has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in the mobile home park where he and the alleged victim live. If convicted, Hardy could face life in prison. Hardy and the young girl live in the Robin Glen Mobile Home Community…
Travis Applewhite, a 27-year-old Ypsilanti Township man, recently waived his right to a preliminary hearing in a case involving alleged criminal sexual conduct with a child under 13 in the second-degree. At his May 30 court appearance before Judge Richard Conlin for a preliminary examination of the evidence against him,…