See drugs, guns, ammo and cash seized by Flint police special investigative unit
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
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FLINT, MI In the last two weeks, the Flint Police Department’s Special Investigative Unit seized about $60,000 worth of narcotics and other drugs, $50,000 in cash, as well as a number of guns and ammunition off of the streets of Flint.
Assault rifles, semi-automatic handguns, magazines, bullets, tens of thousands of dollars in cash, narcotics and other drugs were included in a display of confiscated items from multiple drug raids during a press conference on Tuesday, March 9 at the police department.
Take a look through the gallery above or the photos below to see the seized items up close.
Flint police believe second drive-by was retaliation for fatal shooting
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
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FLINT, MI Police believe a drive-by shooting that left a man and woman injured in Flint was retaliation for a Thursday drive-by that left a woman dead and four people injured, including a baby girl.
The second shooting happened just after midnight Friday, Jan. 29 in the 500 block of West Eldridge Street, Flint Police Chief Terence Green confirmed.
A 25-year-old woman and 28-year-old man the only occupants of the home sustained non-life threatening injuries, Green said.
No further information was available at this time. Police have no suspects.
Family of slain Flint 3-year-old calls for ‘Messiah’s Law’ to strengthen penalties for those who shoot into homes and kill kids
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
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FLINT, MI As Halloween neared, Messiah Williams was looking forward to trick-or-treating in his new Baby Yoda costume. Little more than a week before he could do so, the 3-year-old boy was shot and killed when police say several men opened fire on his family’s Flint home.
Months on and with the new year dawning, Messiah’s family is hoping the state will adopt a new law in the slain boy’s name that will make it mandatory for anyone who shoots into a populated area and kills a child to be imprisoned for life without parole.
‘It’s got to stop,’ Flint community calls for end to gun violence after 4 killed over holiday weekend
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
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FLINT, MI The Flint community is calling for an end to violence in the city after the holiday weekend left multiple people dead.
Four people were killed in Flint over the weekend, including a baby and grandmother who were killed in their sleep during a drive-by shooting.
Belinda Hart, 45, and her 10-month-old grandson Romelo Jones, Jr. were shot while sleeping in their home Saturday, Dec. 26. On the same day, 23-year-old Curdetruis Keaton-Williams was shot and killed outside of a residence and 25-year-old Naomi Anthony was found dead in a field.