Erika Erickson
Reporter
Erika has been reporting in Michigan since 2010 and is part of The Investigators on Local 4. Send her an email.
Erika has been reporting in Michigan since 2010 and is part of The Investigators on Local 4. Send her an email.
Three metro Detroit women are accused in a conspiracy that federal investigators said pumped more than $450,000 in suspected fraudulent pandemic benefits out of Michigan’s unemployment system.
A triple fatal shooting on Detroit’s west side early Sunday morning has left three young people dead and multiple families grappling with grief, shock, and unanswered questions.
What started as a seemingly routine home repair quickly unraveled into something far more troubling for one Detroit family.
A convicted felon is back in custody after he went to a Macomb County gun range and also sent a picture of himself “stuffing a firearm inside his pants,” federal officials said.
A Livonia hiker is still missing 33 years after he last spoke to two men in a helicopter during a trip to Hawaii.
A Livonia hiker vanished 33 years ago, but his family says there's one detail about the case that they just can't forget.
Federal investigators said a Pontiac man already on supervised release for a child sexually abusive material conviction was caught again after probation officers discovered a hidden cellphone in his bedroom.
After the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) received an anonymous tip warning that Deon McKay, a “multi-convicted felon,” was living with his girlfriend and still had access to guns, an investigation into McKay began.
In a lawsuit filed against Vista Maria, an all-girls facility that Local 4 began investigating over a year ago, six women and girls said the respected Dearborn Heights nonprofit that was meant to protect children instead became a “house of horrors.”
Officials revealed dozens of messages that a Michigan sex offender is accused of sending to an undercover agent he thought was a 12-year-old girl.