Monday, November 12, 2012
The FBI's Crime in the United States report shows more than 4,000 crimes overall that were reported in Dearborn last year.
More than 4,000 crimes were reported in Dearborn in 2011, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's recently released Crime in the United States report. The statistics showed both ups and downs for the city, including a noticeable decrease in forcible rapes and robberies in 2011, but also a four-year trend of increases in aggravated assaults. Property crimes in 2011—including burglary, larceny, car theft and arson—were up from 2010 (3,718 to 3,757), but trended down overall over the past four years. Want more news about Dearborn crime? Click here to sign up for the Dearborn Patch newsletter. The drop in property crime is attributed by the Dearborn Police Department to an increased focus on neighborhood watch tactics, as well as a …
Monday, October 22, 2012
Hassan Aoun was sentenced in federal court after a jury convicted him of conspiracy to traffic counterfeit goods, with several members of his company.
A luxury goods retailer that was revealed to be selling fake goods that were supposedly made by the manufacturers of some very pricey brands was sentenced to serve 36 months in a federal penitentiary after he was convicted for his role in procuring and selling the items at his stores. Hassan Aoun, 43, was sentenced to the three years behind bars and to two years of supervised release Oct. 19 by the Judge Nancy G. Edmunds at the federal court house in Detroit. He was convicted of April 12 by a jury for conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, a felony. In addition to the sentences, Aoun and other defendants forfeited a 2006 Bentley Continental automobile, a 2002 Toyota Sequoia, 1,000 boxes filled with counterfeit merchandise and $61,384 …
Friday, June 15, 2012
Some advocacy groups have called for the incident to be investigated as a possible hate crime.
Dearborn police and FBI officials are still investigating a fire and graffiti discovered Tuesday at a storage building at the Dearborn Woods Community Center on Pelham, as community reaction to the incident continues to grow. The Council for American Islamic Relations of Michigan called on law enforcement officials to investigate the incident as an anti-Muslim or anti-Arab hate crime, citing similar cases in Michigan and beyond over the past few months. The affected building is owned and operated by the American Muslim Center, located nearby out Outer Drive in Dearborn. A fire destroyed the storage space Tuesday morning, which was also found to be spray painted with obscene graffiti, along with the word “Arabs.” FBI Detroit spokesman Simon…
Monday, January 9, 2012
The department expects statistics to rise for 2011 due to new reporting parameters.
A new definition of rape for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report will likely mean higher–but more comprehensive–statistics for the violent crime. The new definition, according to a press release from Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday, Jan. 6, “is more inclusive, better reflects state criminal codes and focuses on the various forms of sexual penetration understood to be rape.” The definition, used by the FBI to collect information from local police departments about reported rapes, now reads: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” The original definition of forcible rape…
Thursday, January 5, 2012
The CQ City Crime Rankings for 2010-11 chronicle crime rates in U.S. cities with populations over 75,000.
The CQ Press' annual Crime in Metropolitan America crime rankings for 2010-11 name Dearborn as the 199th most crime-filled metropolitan city in America. The list of 400 cities includes only those with populations more than 75,000 and is based on data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crime in the United States 2009 report. The score is calculated based on reported incidencs of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. Rankings are calculated based on a city's crime rate above or below the national average. Dearborn ranked 17.86 points above the national average. The annual crime report also names Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn as the metropolitan area with the highest amount of crime in the nation. As …
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The FBI released its annual Hate Crime Statistics report on Monday.
There were eight reported hate crimes in Dearborn last year, according to a report issued Monday by the FBI. Hate Crime Statistics, 2010 found that nationally, there were 6,628 criminal incidents involving 7,699 offenses reported in 2010 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. In Dearborn, four incidents had to do with race, while two were based on religion and two on ethnicity. No hate crimes based on disability or sexual orientation were reported. Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Up Although the number of reported hate crimes is not unusually high for Dearborn, the report does show that anti-Muslim hate crimes nationwide were up 50 percent from 2009–…
Saturday, November 12, 2011
A Dearborn businessman was arrested for Hezbollah connections on Friday, but released when the FBI realized they had the wrong man.
The wrongful arrest of a prominent Dearborn community member has left community leaders and residents wondering how such a mistake was made. On Saturday morning, the Detroit Free Press reported that Ali Hammoud, president of the Bint Jebail Cultural Center, was arrested Friday night at his Dearborn home on allegations that he had smuggled and sold cigarettes in support of Hezbollah. However, Hammoud was released Saturday after the FBI discovered that they had mistaken him for someone else with a similar name and description. FBI Detroit spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold told the Free Press that, "The individual fit the description/identifiers of an active warrant. It was later determined it was not the correct individual, and he was released." …
Marium Wilke
4:17 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
I wonder how long it took you to come up with that thought?..I think creative driving in this city has been like this for a while....It all comes down to if there is no one to stop it then it will continue....Maybe we need to focus a little more on stopping people from being so creative....I am sure that they have creative driving in Texas...and the majority of Texans didn't vote for President … more ›