Ann Arbor retired couple pays off Detroit grandmother’s credit card debt

A retired couple from Ann Arbor has helped to pay off a Detroit grandmother’s credit card debt after seeing her featured on Local 4′s series of reports on chronic absenteeism in Detroit Public Schools. Jim and Cindy Pierson said they were at home when they saw the story on Johnetta Burnett, a grandmother who took custody of her five grandchildren after her daughter passed away.