Meridian Twp. police officers placed on leave pending use-of-force investigations
MERIDIAN TWP. – An undisclosed number of police officers are on leave while officials review their actions during an arrest this week.
Police responded to the 2000 block of Grand River Avenue on Wednesday afternoon for a retail fraud complaint and arrested a suspect in a parking lot, Meridian Township officials said in a news release.
A witness captured the arrest on video and gave it to police officials. Concerns were identified by the Meridian Township Police Department regarding the level and manner of force and how it was used to arrest the suspect, officials said in the release, noting criminal and internal investigations are underway.
Man sues Hertz over lost receipt that overturned his murder conviction after five years in prison Print this article
A Michigan man who was wrongly convicted of murder filed a lawsuit against the Hertz vehicle rental company after it allegedly misplaced a receipt that was exculpatory.
Herbert Alford, 47, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2016 for the 2011 fatal shooting of Michael Adams, 23. Hertz located the receipt that proved his alibi in 2018. In the trial that led to his initial conviction, prosecutors claimed that Alford shot Adams in the back over drugs, but the receipt showed that he had been renting a car at a Lansing airport about 20 minutes away from where Adams was killed.
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