Troy News 9/26/2026

Federal prosecutors seek to seize about $18.8 million tied to Quality Behavioral Health, including cash found in two Troy homes, alleging Medicaid fraud and forced labor. Corewell Health previews a new inpatient tower and emergency garage at its Troy hospital, Troy High names alumnus Aaron Smith its boys basketball coach, and an Auburn Hills man is sentenced to probation in a case from a Troy Michaels store. Upper 70s and dry early in the week turn to rain from Wednesday, Sept. 30. Comments are open below.

The Weather: Two Inches of Rain Possible Friday After a Warm, Dry Start

Tuesday, Sept. 29, is the week's warmest day at 79°, after 74° Sunday and 77° Monday. Sunday through Tuesday are dry. Rain arrives Wednesday, Sept. 30 (0.31 inches), with drizzle Thursday, Oct. 1 (0.15 inches). Friday, Oct. 2, brings the heaviest rain, 2.22 inches on a 41% chance, and showers Saturday, Oct. 3, add 0.92 inches. Highs drop to 65° Thursday and Friday.

The News

Feds seek $18.8 million from recovery nonprofit, including cash from two Troy homes

The federal government is seeking to seize about $18.79 million in bank funds, cash and precious metals tied to Quality Behavioral Health Inc., a nonprofit that provides substance use recovery services, and to Naveed Syed, described in the complaint as its owner and operator. The civil forfeiture complaint, filed Sept. 22 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, includes $109,812 in cash seized from a dresser drawer at one Troy residence, $122,194 in cash seized from another Troy residence, and precious metals from safes at the two properties. FBI agents seized the property on or about Aug. 26, according to the filing.

The government alleges the nonprofit billed Medicaid, through the Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network, for treatment it did not provide, with witnesses describing patients who spent their days watching television or playing cards; that Syed directed an employee to create and backdate patient progress notes after a network audit; and that the organization billed more than $611,000 for housing clients in facilities without required certifications. It also alleges Syed recruited Medicaid beneficiaries to work at facilities he controlled, some for 12-hour days, six or seven days a week, under “volunteer” agreements paying $40 a week, and threatened eviction from his housing if they did not follow his rules. WDIV's two reports on the filing describe the workers differently: one as beneficiaries “receiving treatment” through the organization, the other as former beneficiaries recruited after they completed treatment.

According to the filing as reported by WDIV, the organization operates facilities in Detroit, Troy and Sterling Heights; WDIV separately reported that FBI agents searched Syed's home and Quality Behavioral Health locations in Detroit, Troy and Eastpointe in August. Syed has not been criminally charged. His attorney, Arthur Weiss, declined to discuss specific allegations, saying the case will be litigated in court, and said the nonprofit's state license has not been revoked. The allegations have not been proven in court.

Source: ClickOnDetroit / WDIV Local 4 (Brandon Carr; Noelle Friel), September 22-23, 2026

Corewell previews new Troy hospital tower and emergency parking garage

Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital presented concept plans to the Troy Planning Commission on Tuesday, Sept. 22, for a new inpatient tower, a parking garage beside its Emergency Center and a future-expansion envelope on the 47-acre Troy portion of its campus at 44201 Dequindre Road. It is asking to rezone the parcel from Community Facilities to a Planned Unit Development. The commission took no action; the review was for feedback only. City staff said the next step is likely a public hearing, and the commission's recommendation then goes to City Council, which makes the final decision.

Camilla Moretti of the architecture firm HKS told commissioners the hospital is out of inpatient beds, leaving emergency patients waiting for rooms. The tower, listed in the application at about 335,394 square feet and 188 feet, would hold 180 beds in private rooms on five 36-room floors, according to the city's consultant report, and would expand the Emergency Center and move the helipad to its roof. The team described the tower as about 10 stories including its mechanical penthouse; the city's cover memo calls it 8 stories. The garage is listed at about 400 spaces in the consultant report and 405 in the application. It would cut the walk from emergency parking from more than 350 feet to about 50 feet, Moretti said. Corewell also seeks approval of a future building envelope of up to 574,200 square feet and 204 feet, with uses not yet identified. Tower completion is planned for 2030. No one from the public spoke on the item. Chair Marianna Perakis disclosed that her husband works for Corewell at the Troy campus; no commissioner raised a concern.

Source: Troy Thrive, September 24, 2026 (Planning Commission meeting of September 22)

Troy High hires alumnus Aaron Smith as boys basketball coach

Troy High has named Aaron Smith, a 1994 graduate, its boys basketball coach, succeeding Gary Fralick, who told his team in late August that he was retiring. Smith played point guard for Fralick, then coached Troy's JV team for 15 years, several of them also as a varsity assistant. He left in 2015 to become Royal Oak's head coach and went 109-124 in 11 seasons there; last winter his Ravens beat Troy 50-43 in a district championship game.

“Coach Smith is a proud Troy High School graduate and brings extensive coaching experience and a strong connection to our community,” athletic director Karen Baird said in a statement. “We are thrilled to bring a Troy High alumnus back home to lead our boys basketball program.” Smith called the hire “a dream come true.” Fralick said, “He's a great person and has a fantastic basketball mind.”

Source: The Oakland Press, September 22, 2026

Auburn Hills man gets probation again in Troy Michaels store case

Ian Matthew Johnson, 21, of Auburn Hills, was sentenced Sept. 18 to 141 days in jail, with credit for 141 days served, and five years' probation after pleading no contest to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. A woman reported that in April he followed her through a Michaels store in Troy asking strange questions, and he was accused of touching another woman in the store. Prosecutors said that when he was arrested he was already on probation for a separate criminal sexual conduct charge. Police said that in an earlier incident he sprayed lotion on a woman's back at a Troy gas station.

Source: ClickOnDetroit / WDIV Local 4, September 22, 2026

Metro Detroit

Most Archdiocese of Detroit priests will move to new parishes

Most of the Archdiocese of Detroit's 483 current priests will be reassigned to a new parish under the archdiocese's restructuring, which involves “a large-scale movement of priests, with limited exceptions,” Holly Fournier, associate director of communications for the archdiocese, told The Detroit News in a Sept. 24 email. The archdiocese lists 483 priests among 209 parishes in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, St. Clair and Lapeer counties. The restructuring groups existing parishes into “pastorates,” each led by one pastor, with most also assigned one or more parochial vicars.

In a message sent to parishes for their weekly bulletins, the archdiocese said dioceses that had gone through similar restructurings consistently recommended that all priests move, and that keeping longtime priests in place could make it harder for a new pastor to lead a combined pastorate. Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger and a Priest Missioning Team will decide each assignment, drawing on a survey every priest completed after the restructuring was announced in November 2025. New assignments are expected to be shared in parishes and posted on the archdiocese's website the weekend of April 17-18, 2027, and take effect July 1, 2027, with implementation continuing into July 2028. Weisenburger plans to release a video about the reassignments in mid-October.

Source: The Detroit News, September 25, 2026

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