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Through tips from the public Hillsdale County Sheriff Parker said they were able to locate the suspect vehicle.

At approximately 4:00 p.m. deputies from the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office responded to an attempted abduction of an adult female.

Battle Creek police say the 27-year-old victim called authorities at around 3:15 Monday morning.

On July 27, a woman who was attempting to leave her home in Branch County’s Kinderhook Township was stopped by a large piece of wood blocking her driveway. She got out of her vehicle to move it when she was attacked.

Four Calhoun and Branch County residents have been charged with multiple felonies for their alleged plan to abduct a child and sexually torture them to death.

Police say that in March 2017, Dontez Boykins and a 26-year-old woman were found in a disabled car on I-69, with the woman saying she had been raped by him in Marshall.

49-year-old Thaddeus Markham had been convicted by a jury in July of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, assault by strangulation, and unlawful imprisonment.

A Battle Creek man who had been accused of rape and other crimes has now had charges against him dropped. The man had been arrested after a man and woman accused him of sexually assaulting the woman at gunpoint.

A Bedford Township man has now been arrested after a series of crimes allegedly stemming from a failed attempt to pay for sex. Authorities say that the 29-year-old suspect met up with the victims, one male and one female, at the Romantix Adult Store on Michigan Avenue.