Oakland Co. deputies make arrest in killing of salt truck driver in Pontiac

By Carol Thompson, cthompson@detroitnews.com

Oakland County sheriff’s deputies arrested a person suspected of killing a Pontiac man whose physique was present in a pickup truck Saturday.

Police accuse the suspect, a 26-year-old from Pontiac, of killing 52-year-old Antonio Jason Craig.

Officers discovered Craig in a pickup truck on Saturday round 7:30 p.m. The pickup had a salt spreader and was stopped in the course of Karen Courtroom in Pontiac, simply south of Hopkins Avenue.

Craig was unresponsive, the sheriff’s workplace stated in a information launch. Officers tried to avoid wasting him and found his physique had a number of gunshot wounds

The sheriff’s workplace deployed officers, a number of police canines and a drone to establish and discover a potential suspect.

Members of the sheriff’s Directed Patrol Unit adopted the suspect and stopped the car wherein he was a passenger, the division stated in a information launch. They arrested the suspect within the car parking zone of a Waterford Township restaurant at Dixie Freeway and Scott Lake Street at roughly 9:40 p.m.

The suspect is being held within the Oakland County Jail. The sheriff’s workplace stated detectives will flip over their proof to the district legal professional as early as Tuesday.

“With fast, coordinated work and the complete energy of our mixed assets, our staff was capable of establish, find and take into custody the suspect on this mindless homicide,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard stated within the information launch. “I sit up for seeing him held absolutely accountable.”