Oshtemo Township

A Kalamazoo area man is in jail, after he allegedly lured people to an apartment complex to be robbed. MLive reports that the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office that the first incident was reported around 11am Friday, where a victim told authorities that had gone to the Evergreen South Apartments in Oshtemo Township to sell video game-related items, in a transaction organized on Facebook... Read Mo

A Kalamazoo woman will be looking at jail time in connection to a fatal hit-and-run crash. Lawyers for Morgan Rowley had attempted to withdraw her guilty plea earlier this month, but MLive reports that that attempt was denied Wednesday, and Rowley was sentenced for 10 to 20 years in prison for operating with a high Blood Alcohol Content causing death...

A woman who was set to be sentenced Monday in a fatal hit-and-run in Kalamazoo has instead withdrawn her plea. WWMT reports that 22-year-old Morgan Rowley’s defense withdrew a guilty plea for a charge of Leaving the Scene of a Deadly Crash, claiming that the terms of her plea deal were not met...

A Kalamazoo woman accused of causing a college student’s death while driving drunk has pleaded guilty. WWMT reports that 22-year-old Morgan Rowley was set to go to trial in November over the incident in May, but has now pleaded guilty to operating while intoxicated causing death and leaving the scene of an accident...

A Kalamazoo County jury found a teen guilty of murder on Thursday. Nasi Ben-Yaisrael had been accused of killing 18-year-old DeShontae Ellis, at the Red Roof Inn in Oshtemo Township in January of this year. Ellis had been shot in the side while attempting to break up a fight between teenage girls, which had broken out in the parking lot of the hotel where a party was being held...

A raid at a hotel in Kalamazoo County led to a fugitive from Alabama being released. A coordinated effort between the Michigan State Police Fugitive Team and the US Marshall’s took place at the Red Roof Inn in Oshtemo Township, around 4:30pm Wednesday...

An automobile accident in Oshtemo Township Thursday afternoon claimed the life of a man and injured three other people.