EASTPOINTE A Detroit police officer conducting a narcotics search at a home near Nine Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue Dec. 8 was nearly struck by a bag of suspected cocaine allegedly thrown from an upstairs window by a 41-year-old suspect. The suspect is now facing a list of charges.
ROSEVILLE A pair of unrelated and unsubstantiated threats involving a bomb and an armed suspect resulted in an evacuation and a lockdown, respectively, at Roseville Middle School Dec. 9 and Dec. 7.
EASTPOINTE A 26-year-old Detroit man has been charged with first-degree murder after Eastpointe police said that he shot his friend multiple times during an argument outside a home near Toepfer Road and Gratiot Avenue early Nov. 20.
EASTPOINTE Matthew Merlo has lived in Eastpointe for 44 years. He grew up in the city, started work with its Police Department in his early 20s and did just about every job he could do as a sworn officer.
EASTPOINTE The man who Eastpointe police said killed a 38-year-old resident in the basement of his home on Ridgecroft Avenue on his birthday has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.