Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum's new home • Washtenaw Co. landfill fight • U-M Regent's home vandalized

TUESDAY NEWS HIT - Men would line up in vehicles waiting to get into a Southgate home allegedly used for sex trafficking, neighbors said, after learning that a man had been arrested.

"I did. I was like ‘I wonder what’s going on over there,'" neighbor Alicia Manning said when asked if she noticed anything off at the home. "There was different men here every day. I thought it was an illegal massage parlor."

Michael Navoy, 70, was arrested last week and charged with accepting earnings from a prostitute, human trafficking - forced labor resulting in commercial sexual activity, human trafficking - forced labor, using a computer to commit a crime, and keeping a house of prostitution.

Those who know him say they had no idea what he was up to.

"Even though there was talk he was up to something none of us could have imagined it was to this extent," said Claude Cotes.

Cotes, a former business associate who has known Navoy for a decade, said he would travel to Canada but was illusive about exactly what he was doing. Cotes believes he may have been traveling to get the victims that would then be trafficked.

Authorities said Navoy is affiliated with suspects arrested and charged last week in connection with human trafficking out of massage parlors in Wayne and Macomb counties. That is being called one of the largest sex trafficking busts to date.

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum announces new home

A beloved arcade in Farmington Hills is moving after plans were announced to build a new grocery store at its current location.

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum is packing up and moving a few blocks away, to West Bloomfield. 

The business plans to open at Orchard Mall at the northeast corner of Orchard Lake and Maple roads.

In addition to the new space, the museum full of classic arcade games is expanding. The current museum is about 5,300 square feet, while the new space is about 14,000 square feet. 

Marvin's was in jeopardy of closing after the Farmington Hills City Council voted unanimously to approve a new development plan for Hunters Square, where the business is currently located. 

"Sad to leave Farmington Hills as the whole city has been MARVELOUS but this was the best location we found!  Sad to leave Hunters Square but time to start the next chapter for MMMM," Marvin's said in a Facebook post.

Residents want Salem Twp. landfill stopped

Plans for a new landfill at the border of Salem Township and Northville are causing concerns.

The proposed landfill would go right next to an existing landfill that is about to reach capacity.

In about five years from now, the current landfill will be full. The owner of the landfill, GFL, is trying to start a new one just across the street and that has many people living nearby upset.

The Arbor Hills Landfill is located in the upper west corner of Washtenaw County, owned by GFL and governed by Salem Township, but according to the mayor of Northville, it affected many more people with little recourse at that time.

"It’s in Washtenaw County, but Wayne County, Northfield, Northfield Township, especially, gets all the odors and particulates," said Northville Mayor Brian Turnbull.

Debbie Brown has lived near the landfill for 40 years.

"They should be along expressways where you smell it for five minutes, not next to houses," said Brown. "We don’t get the smell a whole lot, but we are going to get it more when they get this new expansion going north, it's going to go north."

According to David Drinan of the Conservancy Initiative, the bulk of the trash isn't even coming from the area; he says 90% of it is coming from outside Washtenaw County.

Vandals target U-M Regent's home with pro-Palestine graffiti 

University of Michigan Board of Regents member and attorney Jordan Acker was once again the target of pro-Palestinian protesters after someone smashed a window at his home and spray-painted "free Palestine" on a vehicle parked in his driveway.

According to photos posted by Acker on Instagram, his family awoke early Monday to a heavy object smashing a window of his Oakland County home.

"While my eldest daughter ran into our room, frightened by the sound of breaking glass, I ran downstairs, saw the broken window, and then ran outside to find my wife’s car had been graffitied by anti-Semitic vandals," Acker wrote.

"Free Palestine" and "divest" were painted on the vehicle.

"They're not looking to 'Free Palestine' - they're looking to harass a Jew," he said.

Vandals graffitied Acker's law firm, Goodman Acker, with the same messages in June, after showing up at his home in May. Acker said the protester who visited his home wearing a mask early one morning left a list of demands.

"Showing up at a board meeting and screaming at me - that is your First Amendment right," Acker said. "Throwing mason jars through my window - and vandalizing my property - and terrorizing my children - is not your right. This is terrorism - it is criminal and whoever did this, should be going to jail."

Scammers use Michigan nostalgia to target victims

Photos of Michigan are now being used to trick people into sharing spam on Facebook.

Spammers are creating groups dedicated to Michigan and filling them with nostalgic posts to get people to interact with and share the posts. However, some of these posts are later edited to include scam links.

This isn't a new trick. Scammers have used missing children, injured animals, and more to entice people to share posts that would later be changed.

One of the groups pedaling spam posts is called "I grew up in Michigan." The transparency section of the Facebook group shows that it was created earlier this year, and the public group is run by moderators who have few friends and/or not from the United States.

The moderators regularly post Michigan-themed content, such as photos from the final Detroit Lions game at Tiger Stadium to facts about now-closed business to photos of beloved areas of the state, like the Upper Peninsula.

On the surface, these posts seem harmless. However, the Facebook edit function means they won't stay that way.

After a post is shared, the scammers will edit it to show a scam trying to sell a quilt. The posts include an AI-generated photo of a quilt and a spam link. Scammers have been known to post links to steal people's account credentials and personal information, like credit card numbers. 

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Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing charged with murder

Authorities arrested a suspect and charged him with murder Monday in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after a quick-thinking McDonald’s customer in Pennsylvania spotted a man who officers found with a gun, mask and writings linking him to the ambush.

The chance sighting at the restaurant in Altoona led to a dramatic break in a challenging but fast-moving investigation that captivated the public in the five days since the shooting that shook the business world.

Luigi Nicholas Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, had a gun believed to be the one used in last Wednesday’s shooting of Brian Thompson, as well as writings suggesting anger with corporate America, police said.

Late Monday, Manhattan prosecutors filed murder and other charges against Mangione, according to an online court docket. He remained jailed in Pennsylvania, where he was charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police.

Mangione was sitting in the rear of the McDonald’s wearing a blue medical mask and looking at a laptop computer, court documents said. A customer saw him and an employee called 911, said Kaz Daughtry, an NYPD deputy commissioner.

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