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CBS News
3 days ago
- CBS News
Pit bull attacks Dearborn Heights teen girl and her dog, police say
Police and animal control officers in Dearborn Heights were on Virgil Street Thursday after a pit bull attacked another dog and that dog's owner. Dearborn Heights police say a 16-year-old girl was walking her dog Thursday morning when a pit bull attacked her Shih Tzu and then bit her. "I hollered down cause I saw them outside, and one of the girls was like, 'Everything is fine,'" said neighbor Mona Bradley, who lives on Virgil Street. "I couldn't believe it happened around here. I haven't seen any loose dogs like that." "People need to be cautious of their animals and stuff and where they are going," added neighbor Nevaeh Black. Police were able to capture the pit bull, which they say was not licensed. The teen is expected to be okay. Dearborn Heights ordinance requires that all potentially dangerous or vicious animals be licensed with the city. The ordinance includes: Bradley says that pit bull owners should be held accountable. "For it [pitbull] to attack the little dog and little girl, that's too much," she said. Police issued the pit bull owner a citation for dog at large, vicious animal and having an unlicensed dog.
CBS News
3 days ago
- Climate
- CBS News
Dearborn Heights family desperate for help after tree falls on home during storm
After storms tore through Southeast Michigan last weekend, one Dearborn Heights family is still picking up the pieces. "It's just, it's going to be hard for sure," said homeowner Christine Duncan. Christine Duncan and her husband, Harold, are still reeling from what they call one of the scariest days of their lives after a tree crashed into their roof on Saturday afternoon. "My son came running out of his room; the ceiling had fallen on his head. The tree came through the room, and it was kind of a whirlwind from there," said Duncan. The tree, which sits on the public sidewalk near the corner of Annapolis and Harding in Dearborn Heights, has long cast a shadow on the Duncan home. Christine Duncan says all her family wants is for the city to take care of what should be their responsibility. "We're hoping the city will see that this is important, and this tree needs to be taken down. We need to be taken seriously," said Christine Duncan. The extent of damage just hours after the tree fell was severe, and as CBS News Detroit reported nearly a week later, not much has changed. "No one has contacted us; we haven't heard anything," said Duncan. Right now, Duncan is trying to focus on the future with her family, facing the next eight to 10 months in temporary housing, as the fate of her beloved home is unknown. "We've lived here for 28 years; we raised six kids in this house. My mother lives around the block where I was raised. It's just, it's our home," said Christine Duncan. CBS News Detroit reached out to the city manager for an update on the Duncan's situation.
CBS News
26-06-2025
- CBS News
Dearborn Heights police search for "suspicious person" seen in neighborhoods with mask
Dearborn Heights police are trying to track down a masked man accused of repeatedly harassing a family. Haider Nabeel, who shared Ring camera footage with CBS News Detroit, said the suspicious man is the reason he got the camera, because this has been happening for weeks. "A couple weeks ago, when I didn't have the camera, they came and me and my brother were home, and they started banging on the windows around the house and then on the door," said Nabeel. Nabeel said it was about a week and a half ago that he decided to buy a Ring doorbell. Since then, he's caught this suspicious man multiple times harassing his Dearborn Heights home near the corner of Kennedy and Rouge River Drive. "A guy with a black ski mask started banging on the door, and we got that on footage, and he ran. And then this time it was that orange mask on the video you guys have seen," he said. Dearborn Heights police said this "disturbing behavior" is happening at other homes in the neighborhood as well. "They did tell us that there was other occurrences in the neighborhood, at least that's what they told us, that it's been happening to other people, so I don't think it's a targeted thing. I just think it's some teenagers messing around thinking they're funny." Nabeel's neighbors said they have not dealt with the person, who police described as "suspicious, but they said it's scary nonetheless. "Really don't know how I would react really don't. I would like run away, I would like go hide downstairs," said Joe Kosho. Anyone with information on the person's identity can reach out to the Dearborn Heights Police Department.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Yahoo
Dearborn Heights family unsettled by late-night masked visitor, police says
A masked person has been showing up at a family's home in Dearborn Heights late at night, in what police are calling threatening and disturbing behavior. The individual has been appearing in the area of Kennedy Street and Rouge River Drive, often around midnight, according to a news release from Dearborn Heights police on Monday, June 23. "While no physical harm has been reported, this behavior is considered threatening and has understandably caused concern," police said in the release. More: Grenade scare at DTW temporarily shuts down checkpoint, TSA says Police are asking for the public's help in identifying the individual, whose identity remains unknown. Anyone with information is asked to call 313-277-6770. The police chief could not immediately be reached for more information. Nour Rahal is a trending and breaking news reporter. Email her: nrahal@ Follow her on Twitter @nrahal1. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Police: Dearborn Heights family unsettled by late-night masked visitor
CBS News
23-06-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Dearborn Heights Iman criticizes announced U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
Iman Mohammad Ali Elahi is an Iranian-American who has been working as an interfaith leader in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, for more than 30 years. "The intention was to bring closeness and build bridges of friendship and relationship," Elahi, who works with the Islamic House of Wisdom, said. "But unfortunately, with this coup against our Constitution, against the United Nations charter, against international law, and this war and violence, unfortunately, we get more hatred and more separation. Shouldn't be that way. It's very, very sad. It's very tragic." He calls the announced U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear sites immoral, illegal and a betrayal. "What really is sad and surprising is that we have a president who kept telling the nation, 'America first,' but then we ended up [with] 'Netanyahu is first' and 'Military Industries first, corporations first,' and that is a coup against trust and confidence," Elahi said. Political science expert and Oakland University Professor Peter Trumbore was also surprised by what he describes as an "act of war." "According to our own intelligence services, Iran was not on the verge of achieving nuclear weapons, and so in that regard, it was unwarranted," Trumbore said. "It wasn't necessary. And I think it's a mistake as well, because this now is going to make the region less secure." The White House said this week that Iran has everything it needs to build a nuclear weapon, and an approval from Iran's supreme leader would enable Iran to ready a nuclear weapon within weeks. Trumbore says there are 40,000 American service personnel in the region with a bullseye on their backs now. Iran's parliament has voted in favor of closing the Straits of Hormuz, which would impact the global oil supply and economy, but the ultimate decision lies with the country's Supreme National Security Council. "Anytime oil prices skyrocket, that affects everything. That affects our industrial base, it affects the ability of consumers to make purchases, including automobiles. Everything becomes more expensive when the price of oil goes up. Assuming that that's one of the consequences of this, then I think that we'll feel that primarily in our pocketbooks, before we feel it in sort of a physical security sense," Trumbore said. Meanwhile, Elahi says some people in the Arab American community around Metro Detroit who voted for the president are disappointed. "He got so much attention of people because they were tired of hearing the news of genocide in Gaza every day and war in Lebanon, and in Yemen, and Ukraine and all these wars, and he said, 'If I'm president in 24 hours, I end all these wars and I make peace.' So unfortunately, not only he didn't stop it, but things got worse and worse and worse," Elahi said. "Unfortunately, people of power, they are so arrogant of the power, they think that might is right, and the ends justify the means, and just because we have a mighty military, we don't have to listen, we don't have to talk, we don't have to care. So instead of mobilizing an army of compassion, army of love and army of justice, they are making all this violence. This is not victory. This is violence, and it brings more hatred." He says he prays for peace and justice every day.
