JAMES A. TARASCA

Randall Robert Berka II is accused of making numerous threats using the handle ‘@killthefeds420’ on YouTube

A real estate investor who lived in Rochester pleaded guilty to scamming investors out of millions of dollars.

A Dearborn woman is being charged with wire fraud related to a pharmaceutical coupon scheme that obtained $65 million.

A 36-year-old Pontiac man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for the sexual exploitation of a minor.

The Department of Justice has charged six people who allegedly ran a $2.6 million opioid ring, which includes two doctors and other medical professionals.

DETROIT – A Michigan man is facing 16 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to crimes related to sex trafficking two minors at a Michigan hotel, authorities said. Kollier Radney, 30, of Detroit, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. He pleaded guilty in March to two counts of sex trafficking of children and one count of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity. Radney took both victims to a hotel in Romulus, and he rented a room for the three of them, court records show. He was on bond and wearing a tether related to this case when he committed the federal sex trafficking crimes detailed above.

A man has been sentenced after he used Snapchat to lure a 15-year-old girl from Minnesota, met a 16-year-old girl in Detroit, and forced them both into sex trafficking out of a hotel in Romulus.

A Clinton Township man was sentenced to 30 years in prison after coercing several minors into sending him sexually explicit photos.

The three militia members were charged under Michigan’s Anti-Terrorism Act

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A 33-year-old Muskegon man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for producing child pornography involving a 7-year-old victim that prosecutors say he assaulted. An undercover FBI agent in Connecticut also was involved in an online chat with a person who boasted about sexually assaulting a 7-year-old. “Protecting children from dangerous child predators is a priority for the FBI. The crimes committed by these offenders cause incalculable damage to their young victims,” he said in a written statement. More from MLiveGrand Rapids’ attorneys deny police officers discriminated against Black peopleGrand Rapids police, SAFE Task Force hosting gun buyback event in SeptemberU.S. Education under secretary gets first-hand look at Michigan university’s prison degree program

A man who pulled out a handgun and fired a shot through the ceiling of a Dearborn business has been arrested in connection with at least two armed robberies, police said.

A Dearborn based doctor has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances after allegedly writing prescriptions that were not needed.