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(CBS DETROIT) - A 42-year-old Wayne County woman is sentenced to three to 15 years in prison for embezzling about $176,653 in tax fraud, the Michigan Attorney General's office announced Friday.Kendra Lewis, of Redford, was charged with one count of embezzlement by an agent of $50,000 to $100,000 and two counts of making/permitting a false tax return.She pleaded no contest in July and agreed to pay $197,464 in restitution. She will also forfeit about $48,000 in case seized from her and her husband's home during a search.Officials say Lewis was an office manager at Big Ike's Roofing Co. in 2020 and 2021 when she wrote checks to herself and recorded them in the business checkbook ledger as payable to vendors for smaller amounts.The owner of the company the embezzlement after a new office manager was hired."The defendant in this case will be required to repay as restitution the money she stole from her employer and to compensate the State for unpaid taxes," Nessel said. "Embezzlement from our small businesses hurts both the business and the consumers in that community. My office and our Financial Crimes Division will continue to bring embezzlers to justice and secure restitution for the victims."  

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals. Wayne County – COVID, sinus infections, asthma flare-ups, colds, fall allergies. Dr. Christopher Loewe -- Emergency Medicine, Ascension St. John Hospital. “As summer turns to fall,...

A Wayne County high school campus is on lockdown on Friday, after a teacher received an alleged bomb threat. The school building was evacuated.

Aleksander Novak Zemplinski, a resident of Wayne County, Michigan, has been found after mysteriously disappearing on Sunday, September 24. Spanning across states and involving a nationwide search, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) has confirmed that Zemplinski has been located in Altadena, California. Prior to being found, Zemplinski had...

A Wayne County woman convicted of embezzling from her employer in Whitmore Lake has been sentenced to prison. Kendra Lewis, 42, of Redford, was sentenced Friday by Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Arianne E. Slay to 38 months to 15 years behind bars following her no contest plea in July to Embezzlement by an Agent of $50,000-$100,000 and two counts of Making/Permitting a False Tax Return.

Those looking to enjoy the first real Fall weekend in Michigan might need to change their travel plans slightly. This weekend starting at 8 p.m. Friday I-75 will be closed in both Oakland and Wayne Counties.

As Emily McHugh and her family moved into a home on Ayres Street in Wayne County's Van Buren Township about a decade ago, they knew they were moving close to a landfill. "We weren't in a situation where we could pick and choose over things like that," she said. Until the Free Press...

Kendra Lewis, 42, from Redford, Wayne County, was sentenced for embezzlement and false tax returns. The Michigan Attorney General, Dana Nessel, announced this today. Lewis was given 38 months to 15 years in prison for embezzling about $176,653 from 2020 to 2021. She was the office manager at Big Ike’s Roofing Co. in Whitmore Lake.

Aleksander Novak Zemplinski, a Wayne County, Michigan resident, seemingly vanished. He was last contacted on Sunday, September 24, at approximately 10:48 p.m. It is believed that he may currently be on Mt. Wilson on Red Box Road in the city of Altadena, California, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

An alleged drunk driver facing his third OWI is behind bars after he blew through a red light and narrowly missed smashing into the back of a state police vehicle early Thursday morning.

Civil asset forfeiture is not an asset to the American people—it is legalized theft without constitutionally-required due process of law. Thankfully, the practice may finally be curbed.  Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit found Wayne County, Michigan’s civil asset forfeiture program in violation of the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Civil…

A house in Northville that sold for $1.3 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Wayne County in the past week. In total, 612 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $203,454. The average price per square foot was $140.

Explore the implications of President Biden's unprecedented visit to the picket lines. Former UAW spokesperson, Brian Rothenberg, provides an insightful breakdown of this event and its potential impact on the ongoing strike. A must-watch for those interested in labor relations and political activism.

If we had to give an award for the Dessert Capitol of Metro Detroit, Dearborn deserves that title! The Wayne County town doesn’t hold back on the craziest desserts that will wow your entire family. To make the day even sweeter, why not also stop at one of these...

The Wayne Police Department, the Wayne County Sheriff's Office and the Wayne Volunteer Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon. The accident occurred shortly after 1 p.m. at the corner of Centennial Road and East Highway 35 near Wayne East. The two vehicles involved in the accident were...

WYANDOTTE, Mich. – For months, parents in Wayne County have been fighting to block the T-Mobile 5G tower on top of Washington Elementary School. The issue began after the tower went up. Parents were concerned about potential health problems for their children exposed to the tower while they are at school.

Walter Reuther wouldn't have believed it. That famed UAW head held sway within the Democratic Party and with President John F. Kennedy. But he never saw a week like this one has been. A sitting Democratic president, Joe Biden, on Tuesday became the first in history − as far as...