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January 24 - 30, 2013
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Members of the Wayne City
Council approved a site plan
last week for a McDonald's at
Michigan Avenue West and
Wayne Road, the current site
of Rex' PancakeHouse.
See page 5.
The Romulus Flyers foot-
ball junior varsity team mem-
bers who won the Downriver
League championship were
honored recently by the City of
Romulus.
See page 5.
A group of volunteers man-
aged to net and relocate a pair
of immature swans who had
been waddling across busy
roadways forweeks.
See page 4.
State Rep. Kurt Heise invit-
ed newly-elected Northville
Township Supervisor Robert
Nix II to join him at Gov. Rick
Snyder's third annual State of
theState address.
See page 2.
After long discussion and a
second ballot, Brent Mikulski
was elected as president of the
Van Buren Public Schools
Board of Education president
last week by a 4-3 vote.
See page 4.
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City officials’ claimthat new
water meters are able to travel
back in time to read previous
usage are criticized and fail-
ure to protect the citizenry
faulted.
See page 6.
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The Veterans of Foreign
Wars (VFW) Post and
Auxiliaries 4553 chose John
Glenn High School history
teacher Michele Anderson as
theTeacher of theYear.
See page 5.
Samer Salami, 32, of Canton
Township, has been charged with
conducting a criminal enterprise
in a real estate fraud scheme
throughVillaRealty inRedford.
The charges include allegations
that Salami, as a registered agent
for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
was required to list homes and
obtain the highest and best offers
for them. He was also required to
forward all offers toFannieMae or
Freddie Mac where the ultimate
decision on whether to accept the
offerwouldbemade.
The charges claim that Salami
would list the property on the
Multiple Listing Service but not
specify that the property was
owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie
Mac. Once he had an offer for the
property froma bona fide purchas-
er, hewould then place an offer for
the property on behalf of a compa-
ny called Trademark Assets, for a
price less than the offer he
received, the complaint alleges.
Trademark Assets, according to
the criminal complaint, is a com-
pany that was legally owned by
persons known to Salami and was,
in fact, completely controlled by
Salami. Salami allegedly forward-
ed offers to FannieMae or Freddie
Mac from Trademark Assets that
were less than the asking price. He
would get Fannie Mae or Freddie
Mac to accept a lower bid than
they were originally asking. He
then brokered the deal to sell the
property
from
Fannie
Mae/Freddie Mac to Trademark
Assets while simultaneously work-
ing on the documents and sale of
With help from Oakwood
Healthcare, Inc., Canton
Township started the 11th
annual 100 Days toHealth pro-
gram at Summit on the Park
recently.
See page 2.
Police in Northville are search-
ing for the man who brutally
attacked and robbed a 69-year-old
woman in the city last Wednesday
morning.
According to police reports, the
woman was returning to her Lake
Street home from the Northville
Community Center at approximate-
ly 11 a.m. She drove her car into
her garage and was walking down
her driveway when she was
approached by an African
American man who asked her if
she would take part in a survey.
She asked the man what kind of
survey and noticed that he did not
have any type of identification such
as a lanyard with an identification
card or badge, she toldpolice.
She said she asked the man for
some type of identification, but
could not remember anything
beyond that while being inter-
viewed by officers at Providence
Hospital where she was admitted
suffering from a fractured jaw and
severe head injury. She did not
remember regaining consciousness
or making her way into her home
where she called a friend who
immediately rushed her to the hos-
pital. She was reported in stable
condition later that day.
She described her attacker as
being in his 30s with a medium
build. The man, she told police,
was wearing a dark, three-quarter
length coat and carrying a bur-
gundy portfolio. The vehicle used
by the culprit is described as a light
colored, possibly tan, sedan.
The victim's purse was taken
containing her cell phone, credit
cards and identification. The cell
phone was recovered the same day
inFarmingtonHills.
Northville officers are currently
working with neighboring jurisdic-
tions where similar incidents may
have occurred. The Farmington
Hills Police received a report of a
similar robbery involving a woman
being attacked after arriving home
in her vehicle just before 11 p.m.
lastWednesday.
According to Farmington Hills
Police Chief Chuck Nebus, the
woman was unloading her car
when shewas attacked.
“She was making trips back and
forth to her car, and during one of
those trips she was hit on the head
with some kind of stick or club and
the suspect fled, probably …due to
the commotion,” Nebus said. “We
were receiving 911 calls.”
In the Farmington Hills inci-
dent, which took place in a wooded
area near the Eight Mile and
Halstead Road area near the
Green Hill Apartment Complex,
the suspect was described as a
black man, 35 years of age with a
medium build. The victim said he
was 5-feet, 10-inches to 6-feet, 2-
inches tall andwas wearing a beige
jacket and jeans. He was seen driv-
ing a late 90s light brown Ford
Taurus.
The woman was taken to a local
hospital and is listed in critical con-
dition.
Anyone who may have informa-
tion regarding the attacks is asked
by police to call (248) 349-1234.
More than 350 Inkster residents
will be part of a class-action law-
suit set to be filed this week in
Circuit Court against the City of
Inkster.
Attorney Byron Nolen said that
he hopes to file the paperwork this
week demanding that the city
lower the water rates, create an
opt-out policy as required by state
law for the coaxial water meters
and provide some relief to those
already harmed by the installation
of the new meters. Nolen said he
hopes to have 500 people join the
suit as more residents contact him
daily with horror stories about
theirwater bills and themeters.
“It's shame, really. In effect, we
are suing ourselves. When you sue
the city, you really sue the resi-
dents,” he said.
According to Nolen, the city
was $5 million in debt to the
Detroit Water and Sewerage
Department when the decision to
install the $2.5 million water
meters was approved by city offi-
cials in 2010. Officials also agreed
to a hike inwater rates to help pay
the delinquent debt toDetroit. The
new meters send data back to the
municipal offices electronically
for billing and there is no on-site
See
Lawsuit,
page 5
See
Fraud,
page 2
The charges claim that Salami would list the property
on the Multiple Listing Service but not specify that the
property was owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
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Canton man faces multiple fraud charges
Residents filing lawsuit regarding exorbitant water bills
With a worldwide audience
watching as the president strolled
down Pennsylvania Avenue, the
daughter of a Canton Township
couple marched just a few paces
away from the commander in
chief during the inaugural
parade.
Army Staff Sgt. Lindsay M.
Natiw, daughter of John and
Karen Natiw,who live on Orhan
Street in Canton, is a member of
the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and
Drum Corps, one of the Army's
premiere musical organizations,
located at Fort Myer, VA. The Fife
and DrumCorps is one of the first
marching elements in the inaugu-
ral parade, and is the only unit of
its kind in the armed forces. It
provides historic, patriotic music
with 10-hole fifes, hand-made
rope-tensioned drums and single
valve bugles. Dressed in colonial-
style, tricorn hats, white wigs and
red greatcoats, these soldiers
bring distinction to official cere-
monies and civic functions, with
nearly 500 performances annually.
Natiw is a “special bands”
member in the Fife and Drum
Corps.
“I will be playingmy fife for the
president,” said Natiw, a 2005
graduate of SalemHigh School, in
an interviewbefore the parade.
The Fife and Drum Corps is
recognized as the “official escort
to the president,” which unit
members hold in high esteem.
“It's an honor to play and perform
for an historic event such as this.
I'mvery excited,” saidNatiw.
The musicians are soldiers
who specialize in traditional field
music from original 18th and 19th
Century sources. They commonly
play tunes such as “Washington's
Artillery March,” “Downfall of
Paris,” “Duke of York's March,”
and “Yankee Doodle,” but prepa-
ration for the inauguration took
additional practice.
“We prepared for months
before the inauguration by
rehearsing as much as possible to
make sure we are perfect for the
president. We also perform at the
Pentagon, White House, and for
the public at various events
throughout the year,” saidNatiw.
“I've been in the Army and a
part of the Fife and Drum Corps
for seven years. My future plans
are to stay in the Army until I
retire,” saidNatiw.
March on
Salem High School graduate
marches in inaugural parade
The U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps rehearse at Fort Myer,
Va., as they prepare for the Presidential Inauguration Parade.
(Department of
Defense photo by EJ Hersom)
She described her attacker
as being in his 30s
with a medium build.
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Northville woman robbed, beaten in driveway
Army Staff Sgt. Lindsay M. Natiw