Recent Articles
Update: Current status of local court cases
Students and area residents with impending court cases: The trials of MSU student Albert Robinson and nonstudents Roy Holt and Joel Hamlar will begin May 10 with jury selection.
Student fraud plot uncovered
Arrest warrants were issued Tuesday for 11 students accused of a money laundering conspiracy as part of an organized fraud scheme against the MSU Federal Credit Union, MSU police said. Police also are seeking warrants for four more students on similar charges. Money laundering is disguising illegally obtained money in a financial system, such as a bank, and conspiring to do so is a 20-year felony.
Police encourage creation of UMADD
Police and university officials hope to start a university chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, to get students involved in prevention and education activities. "It's one thing for the police to talk about the dangers; it's another thing to hear it from your peers," MSU police Inspector Kelly Beck said. East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said he hopes to establish a student organization with police officers as resources. Wibert and Beck met with Mary Ann Bair, the MADD Michigan program director, earlier this month to discuss starting a UMADD chapter at MSU. Bair could not be reached for comment. When Wibert became police chief last May, he said he made drunken driving prevention a priority.
E.L. police report 3 prowlers in April
There have been three reported cases of prowlers in East Lansing neighborhoods in the past three weeks, police said. A 20-year-old Tecumseh man was arrested for prowling and disorderly conduct when caught opening the screen to a basement window at a house on Michigan Avenue at 5:30 a.m.
Fundraiser at ice cream shop tonight
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, students can help MSU's Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention by eating at Cold Stone Creamery, 200 M.A.C.
