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Axios
14-07-2025
- Business
- Axios
Ice Cream Detroit readies for its soft opening in Midtown
Ice Cream Detroit is holding a soft opening next Sunday after around three years of working to get its new location in Midtown up and running. The big picture: The small-batch ice cream maker offers both booze-infused and classic ice cream and sorbet. Between the lines: One of the pop-up brand's most popular offerings is Faygo Red Pop sorbet with coconut rum, per Metro Times. Another unique flavor? Butterfly pea flower margarita sorbet. The boozy flavors are 0.5% alcohol per scoop. If you go: For National Ice Cream Day on July 20, Ice Cream Detroit is offering a taste of its product, plus tours of the new location at 3762 2nd Ave. from noon to 4pm.
Miami Herald
01-07-2025
- Miami Herald
Faygo soda used as bait, ending bank hostage standoff in Michigan, cops say
A man holding a bank worker hostage was fatally shot by Michigan officers, who baited him using Faygo soda, according to police and news reports. The incident happened Friday, June 27, at Mercantile Bank in Saginaw Township, leading to an hours-long standoff, according to Michigan State Police. The 31-year-old suspect entered the bank after closing hours and tried cashing a fraudulent check, reported. When he was denied, he attacked the worker and demanded money while armed with a sharp object, troopers told the news outlet. He then held the woman hostage for around three hours as officers stormed the scene and began negotiating with him, according to Troopers used a drone to deliver a 24 oz. Faygo Red Pop soda to the accused suspect, WNEM reported. When he went to retrieve the soda and was seen through the building's glass, a trooper fired a single shot that killed the 31-year-old man, state police told the news outlet. He was identified as Quinton Marquese Allen and was from the Detroit area, according to WNEM. The woman who was held hostage 'bolted out a door of the building' and officers entered the bank, finding Allen who was pronounced dead at the scene, WJRT reported. State police said the worker was treated at a hospital for non-life threatening injuries. 'Thanks to the swift and professional response of local and state law enforcement, the situation was resolved,' Mercantile Bank said in a statement. 'All Mercantile Bank employees are safe, and there is no ongoing threat to the public.' Saginaw Township is about a 120-mile drive northwest from Detroit.
