FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Flint Township Police say an 18-year-old intellectually disabled woman from Mississippi was safely located after officers launched a fast-moving overnight investigation into what they describe as an online manipulation and kidnapping case.

According to the department, officers learned late Tuesday that the woman had been lured to Michigan by a 26-year-old Flint Township man she met years earlier while playing an online game. What police say began as a long-term online friendship eventually turned into manipulation, culminating in the man driving to Mississippi, picking her up, and bringing her back to his home in Michigan.

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Detectives and patrol officers worked through the night, following leads and coordinating with the Michigan State Police Emergency Support Team. Authorities executed a search warrant at a Flint Township residence, where they found both individuals.

The suspect was taken into custody and booked into the Genesee County Jail on a nationwide extradition warrant for kidnapping. Police say the woman was treated at a local hospital and is expected to be reunited with her parents soon.

Flint Township Police said the case underscores the need for parents and guardians to closely monitor online interactions, particularly within gaming communities, where predators may not fit traditional stereotypes. The department also emphasized that persistent investigative work and strong cooperation between agencies remain critical to resolving cases quickly and safely.

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Michigan Spent More Than $13.8 Million on Transgender Care in Four Years – And One County Blew Everyone Else Away

LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – New Medicaid reimbursement data obtained through a Michigan News Source Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request shows that taxpayers have funded more than $13.8 million in gender-affirming services in Michigan since 2021 – a spending trend that has grown steadily each year despite mounting national debate on the issue.

Behavioral health services make up the bulk of the claims, while gender-affirming surgeries – 335 in 2021, 511 in 2022, 700 in 2023, and 726 in 2024 – remain the least common but the most expensive.

Behavioral health is a broad label that covers therapy sessions, counseling, psychiatric care, and the mental-health evaluations required before starting hormones or undergoing surgery. It can also include crisis-intervention visits and care-coordination services. Click here to read more.

 

Flagler County Sheriff: Roblox used in child solicitation case, suspect arrested

BUNNELL, Fla.- A California man was arrested after attempting to solicit a child he met on the gaming platform Roblox following a more than two-year investigation by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

The investigation began in 2023 when a Palm Coast parent reported that his child was having inappropriate and sexually explicit conversations with a man on Roblox. Deputies learned the child initially communicated with the suspect on Roblox, later moving to Discord, and eventually to text messages.

“Fortunately, this parent acted as the sheriff in their home by reviewing their child’s messages and contacting law enforcement immediately after discovering a stranger was attempting to take advantage of their child,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. Click here to read more.

Trump Administration Has Found 62,000 Children, Some Victims of Sex Trafficking and Forced Labor, Tom Homan Reports

he Trump administration has located 62,000 children who entered the U.S. unacompanied under the previous administration, according to border czar Tom Homan.

“Some of these children were in sex trafficking—we found them. Some were in forced labor, some were being mistreated—I can’t even discuss some of the mistreatment we found out about,” Homan said Sunday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

“President [Donald] Trump, again, proves why he’s the greatest president in my lifetime,” Homan added. “Over 62,000 children rescued by President Trump, again, children that were ignored and weren’t being looked for under President [Joe] Biden.”

Under the Biden administration, hundreds of thousands of illegal alien minors arrived at the southern border alone and were released into the care of sponsors, but the Biden administration did not track the location or status of each child after placement. Click here to read more.

 

Book Aimed at 5-Year-Olds Claims Abortion Is ‘Superpower’

A radical abortion group is selling a children’s book that frames killing unborn babies in abortions as a “superpower.”

Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”

hout Your Abortion said the book is written by artist and educator Rachel Kessler and activist Amelia Bonow and is illustrated by Emily Nokes. Click here to read more.

 

Millions of defective air bags have been recalled—but they’re still not fixed

Brayan Garcia was driving along a highway in his red Toyota Corolla when he slammed into the back of a Ram pickup truck that was stopping at an intersection in West Texas.

Garcia, 22, died at the scene of the early morning crash. His Corolla sustained heavy damage, its hood ripped off entirely. Debris was scattered across several lanes. But despite hitting the truck head-on, the Corolla’s air bags never went off.

Toyota had recalled Garcia’s car in 2020 over a dangerous defect that could stop its air bags from deploying. But Garcia’s vehicle hadn’t gotten the fix, like millions of others currently on the road. Click here to read more.

 

 

Ann Arbor spent $4.5 million of its ARPA funds on solar panels

Ann Arbor spent $4.5 million of the $24 million it received through the American Rescue Plan Act on solar power infrastructure. It was the city’s largest allocation of the funds and listed in the category “Replacement of Lost Public Sector Revenue.”

The city used funds in ways consistent with federal guidelines, Mariah Walton, Ann Arbor’s deputy city administrator, wrote to Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email. Federal rules “allowed local governments to use funds for general services if they experienced revenue shortfalls,” Walton added.

The U.S. Department of Treasury let local governments treat up to $10 million of their federal relief money as if it were general revenue that would have been collected if not for the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Rescue Plan Act was a $1.9 trillion spending package enacted in 2021 under the Biden administration. Click here to read more.

 

ICE nabs illegal alien child sex offender from Cuba in Michigan over Thanksgiving weekend

As Michiganders celebrated the Thanksgiving weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continued work around the clock to give them something to be thankful for.

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday highlighted the arrests of numerous rapists, pedophiles, and murderers over the holiday weekend, including at least one child sex abuser in Michigan.

“While Americans enjoyed a long holiday weekend with their families and friends, ICE law enforcement was hard at work arresting rapists, child sex abusers and murderers,” an unidentified DHS spokesperson said in a statement.

“Every American should be grateful to our law enforcement officers for putting their lives on the line each and every day to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” the statement read. “Despite what the media and sanctuary politicians claim, 70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens convicted or charged with a crime in the U.S.” Click here to read more.

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Out of Sight: Following the Money Trail of Missing Child Border Crossers

On the campaign trail, Vice President JD Vance repeatedly chastised the Biden administration for allegedly losing track of some 320,000 minors who had crossed the border unaccompanied. “Our government, under the policies of Kamala Harris, has lost thousands of innocent children to sex trafficking, to drug trafficking, to human trafficking,” Vance said.

One year later, the fate of most of those children remains unknown. While the Trump administration has all but stopped the crush of migrants that occurred during Biden’s term, neither the government nor the nonprofits that were largely responsible for resettling this vulnerable population of unaccompanied minors have been able to tell RealClearInvestigations where they are living. Click here to read more.

 

Somali Scandal Could Sink Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s Political Career

A scandal involving hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from a federally funded nutrition program may starve Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) chances of a political future, the Hill reported Saturday.

The controversy, involving Minnesota’s influential Somali community, focuses on millions stolen from the program and has led to more than 50 convictions. Federal prosecutors accused dozens of people of stealing funds from a government program that was to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic.

The New York Times put the story on the radar of legacy media outlets on November 29, with a report that federal prosecutors said as much as $1 billion in taxpayer money may have been stolen in separate fraudulent schemes. Click here to read more.

 

Another train stabbing in Charlotte -- and the suspect’s been deported twice already

An illegal migrant -- who was deported by the U.S. twice in recent years -- was arrested in connection with a stabbing on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

DHS on Saturday identified the suspect as 33-year-old Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia.

Online records from the Mecklenburg County Jail show the suspect is facing the following charges:

• Attempted first-degree murder

• Assault with deadly weapon serious injury

• Break/enter motor vehicle

• Carrying concealed weapon

• Intoxicated and disruptive

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