Two men who allegedly used eight stolen identities to buy gift cards in the Howell Walmart last week - then used them to buy snacks in the store and fast food nearby - are wanted by township police.
It's like something you'd expect to see on the television show America's Funniest Home Videos. A driver struggled with a deer that jumped into her SUV in Howell, after the animal was struck by the vehicle, and it was all caught on tape by a Township officer.
The trail of charges rung up on a credit card, stolen in the Howell Home Depot last May, brings investigators to a suspect in Jackson, with help from web-surfing tipsters.
A woman who allegedly harangued an Orthodox Jewish boy outside the Howell Township Walmart faces a bias incident charge, if police track her down. They're now seeking her identity, and they're asking if you can help.
Maybe the right thing is to leave someone else's car alone. But the righter thing is to rescue a screaming, overheated baby inside it. That's what two total strangers took it on themselves to do Tuesday afternoon in Howell, according to township police. The mother has a court hearing ahead.
Less than a week after swastikas were found on a playground in Lakewood, nine more disturbing spray-painted symbols appear at Echo Lake Park in neighboring Howell Township.
A Howell Township house that once sheltered the commanding officers of Naval Weapons Station Earle became a marijuana farm and a stash house for a grenade launcher, shotguns, rifles and hand guns, according to police who completed two arrests.