Yet another UAW official is under investigation. You know when you’re being investigated by the FBI and IRS, and they are seen walking out of your garage with piles of cash, you just might be headed to prison. UAW President Gary Jones’ home was raided as part of a larger union corruption investigation. Apparently, millions in interest income from the union’s strike fund has gone mission over the years. The FBI is also investigating Jones’ charity.

In other embezzlement news, a 49-year-old woman was arrested for embezzling over $100,000 from a construction company in Garden City. Nicole Cogswell was their bookkeeper and wrote fraudulent checks to fictitious vendors.

And finally, in “It is a Darwin move to be anywhere near Detroit” news,

• Detroit Police arrested a 22-year-old mother when her 18-day-old daughter was found drowned in a bathtub. She is charged with Involuntary Manslaughter.
• 8 Fire trucks are battling a Detroit scrap yard fire. The yard mostly accepts metals but also car parts, refrigerators, and other flammable recyclables.
• A 26-year-old Detroiter, and former felon, Gregory Watkins was just charged with First Degree Murder in a fatal shootout with a man with whom he had a dispute.
• A highly-intoxicated Detroiter refused to get off the train tracks as a train came toward him. He survived being pushed off the track by the slowing train, but is in serious condition.
• Detroit Fire Fighters discovered the body of Lily Camera (of Ferndale) burned beyond recognition in a house fire on the city’s east side. The Medical Examiner is calling it a homicide. Detroit Police are searching for a man last seen driving her car. Camera was a mother of 2 who had dropped her children off with her parents the day of her murder.
• A Detroit man was walking his dog on Edsel Street when 2 loose Pit Bulls attacked the dog and mauled it to death.
• Detroit Police are searching for a suspect firing shots at several people from his car after they acquired surveillance photos.
• Detroiter, Darrell Siggers, was exonerated after serving 34 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. His attorney has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the city and the Detroit Police Detective and lab technician that conspired and fabricated evidence to put him in prison for life. About his release, Siggers says, “I know nothing about cellphones and was baffled at a restaurant menu – I haven’t chosen food for over 3 decades.”

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