County collects DNA to help families find kin
DETROIT (AP) — The Wayne County medical examiner’s office has held an open house for the families of missing people, collecting their DNA as a way to help solve the cases.
The office also asked participants to bring police reports, photos and medical and dental records.
The Detroit News says Michigan has at least 4,000 missing people as well as the unknown remains of more than 100 people. The medical examiner’s office is working with state police and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
Staffers get DNA samples from swabs taken from inside the cheek. State police detective Sarah Krebs says the data will go into the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System within a few weeks.
Police: Inmate asks dad for ride in foiled escape
JACKSON (AP) — Authorities say a prison inmate arranged for his father to pick him up as part of an escape attempt that ended up foiled.
The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports the father thought his son was to be released on parole from Cooper Street Prison near Jackson.
Police say the father stopped and asked a corrections officer for directions on where to pick up his son. Authorities found the inmate in a garage on prison property. He’s been serving time for charges including armed robbery.
The Jackson County prosecutor’s office is expected to review the case for possible charges.
The prisoner could face up to 5 additional years in prison if convicted of an attempted escape.
High court tosses extortion conviction
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction of a Massachusetts financier convicted of extortion for sending threatening emails to a New York state official.
The high court on Wednesday sided with Giridhar Sekhar of Brookline, Mass., who appealed his conviction.
Sekhar wanted a New York State employee pension fund to invest in one of his company’s funds. But a lawyer for the pension fund recommended against investment, so Sekhar sent him emails threatening to expose an alleged affair. The FBI traced the emails, and indicted Sekhar for attempted extortion.
The justices debated whether the indictment was correct because the only thing Sekhar was trying to influence was the lawyer’s recommendation. Justice Antonin Scalia said “no” for the court in a unanimous judgment.
Scalia says that is “coercion, not extortion.”
Court rules baristas must share tips
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court says Starbucks’ baristas must share their tips with shift supervisors, but assistant managers are left out in the cold.
The Court of Appeals this week found that shift supervisors who do much of the same work as the coffee servers get to share in the tips. The court also ruled the company can deny those tips to assistant managers.
The court backed Starbucks’ policy of divvying up the tips, saying it’s consistent with labor law.
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