Charles Ramirez, The Detroit News
A 21-year-old man accused of assault and stealing cars along with his 16-year-old girlfriend is expected to be in court Friday.
Joseph Matthew McDonough is scheduled to appear in 52-2 District Court in Clarkston for a probable cause conference, according to court records.
He was arraigned last Friday in the court on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, a 10-year felony; unlawful driving away of a motor vehicle, a four-year felony; and larceny in a building, also a four-year felony, Holly police officials said Monday.
A magistrate set his bond at $10,000.
Court records did not list an attorney for McDonough on Wednesday.
Holly police said his girlfriend has been charged with assault with intent to commit great bodily harm less than murder, unlawful driving away of a motor vehicle, larceny and interfering with a 911 call.
Officials are not releasing her name because she is a minor. They said she is housed at the Oakland County Children’s Village detention center while awaiting a hearing on Tuesday.
Authorities accuse the two of an assault and multiple car thefts.
Investigators said Holly police were called at about 1 p.m. on March 2 to a home on Grange Hall Road for a report of an assault and robbery.
Officers arrived and found a 58-year-old woman who had been severely injured in an assault, they said.
She told police her daughter, 16, came home with her 21-year-old boyfriend, according to authorities. Officials said the assailant violently beat the victim and demanded her car keys. They said the man and the woman’s daughter took the keys, the victim’s credit cards, some other belongings, and the vehicle.
Medics took the woman to a hospital where she was listed in serious condition, police said.
Detectives said they knew the male suspect because of previous contact with officers and his connections to Macomb County.
Police reported the victim’s vehicle had been stolen to law enforcement agencies in Oakland and Macomb counties.
Two days later, Clinton Township police contacted the Holly Police Department to report its officers found the victim’s vehicle and tried to conduct a traffic stop, but the occupants fled, authorities said. Township officers later found the vehicle abandoned in a parking lot and impounded the car.
Holly police said two other vehicles were stolen from a gas station and liquor store between March 8 and March 10. Detectives reviewed security camera footage of both thefts and learned the suspects were the same in the woman’s assault.
Later on March 10, Warren police informed their counterparts in Holly that they had both suspects in custody. Investigators said the two had assaulted a Warren officer and tried to flee. They said the girl was taken to Oakland County’s Children’s Village and the man was taken to the Macomb County Jail.
McDonough and the teen are the latest Metro Detroiters to be formally accused of stealing cars.
Southfield police said Monday officers arrested two Ypsilanti men over the weekend for trying to steal a vehicle and leading them on car chases.
Last week, a Warren man accused of being part of an auto theft ring that targeted Cadillacs in a General Motors corporate lot was charged.
Earlier this month, three Detroit men were ordered to stand trial for allegedly being part of an operation that stole hundreds of vehicles in southeast Michigan.