GUILTY MI - Angela Alexie, 24, charged in death of newborn son, 22 Dec 2014

Police have arrested a 24-year-old woman in the death of a newborn baby boy whose body was found in a suburban Detroit recycling center.

Roseville police Chief James P. Berlin announced the arrest Monday. He did not release any other details...

Berlin told MLive.com earlier Monday that detectives were headed to St. Clair County to talk to "specific people."

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Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said details about the woman are not being released at this time. He said the arrest was not made in St. Clair or Sanilac counties, although the investigation did move into the Blue Water Area today.

"We received some information we deemed credible so our detectives are following up on that today," he said.

Berlin said the woman could be arraigned Tuesday in Roseville's 39th District Court.

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Berlin wouldn't say how police located the woman but confirmed she lives in Metro Detroit and was arrested on the street about in Metro Detroit about 12:30 p.m. Monday...

The child found in Roseville has been nicknamed Henry Alexander Macomb, named for Macomb's namesake, Gen. Alexander Macomb, by the Macomb County Medical Examiner's Office. Community members in Clinton Township and Macomb County have agreed to pay for a forthcoming burial at Resurrection Cemetery.

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Roseville Police Chief James Berlin says prosecutors are working Tuesday morning to get warrants signed for criminal charges against a 24-year-old Eastpointe woman suspected of giving birth to a boy found dead among rubbish at a recycling center in Roseville on Jan. 14.

"The medical examiner is working on the final examination, but it appears to be neglect from exposure" to cold, Berlin said. The death has been ruled a homicide... More information on the woman will be released today after her arraignment tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m...

"We haven't had a chance to ask her, but we don't really give a damn what she has to say," Berlin responded when asked if the child had been given a name by his mother.

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Police say the mother of a baby found dead at a Detroit-area recycling center had three other children but lost custody of them.

Roseville Chief James Berlin says the 24-year-old woman is expected to appear in court Wednesday in Eastpointe. He says a "sick story" has "become sicker" as investigators learn more about the death of the newborn.

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“According to her, the child was born around Dec. 22 and is believed to have passed away around Dec. 24,” Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said Tuesday. “She claims she wrapped it up and took it to her parent’s home and put it in a storage shed in the backyard. And then a person, or persons unknown, placed him into a recycling bin, the kind you have at your curb”...

Police received dozens of tips about the case, some of which helped them to zero in on the alleged mother. According to police, the woman had been pregnant and acquaintances were suspicious about her explanation for the absence of the baby, Berlin said...

“She lives wherever her head hits the pillow,” Berlin said. “We have no idea who the father of the child is, and we don’t think she knows either.”

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The suspect’s name will be released following an arraignment set for Wednesday in Eastpointe District Court. Charges in the case could include murder, child abuse and unlawful disposal of a body.

Berlin said she has no criminal record.

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The alleged mother of the newborn baby boy whose body was found dumped along with material at a Roseville recycling center was arraigned Wednesday on murder and abuse charges. Bond for 24-year-old Angela Marie Alexie was set at $1 million...

Alexie was charged with one count of open murder, a felony that carries up to life in prison, and one count of child abuse in the first degree, a life felony. A not guilty plea was entered on her behalf. She is also expected to face charges in Roseville.

Her next court date is scheduled for Feb. 4. She is being held in the Macomb County Jail.

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A friend described Alexie as very troubled, but not a monster. Tarah Bartram, 24, of Roseville said she has known Alexie since they were 10th-graders at East Detroit High School in Eastpointe. Alexie, she said, dropped out. "She is not a bad person. She just has a lot of addictions and issues with her family," said Bartram. "What she (is accused of), it is a really bad thing."

Alexie's friends knew she was pregnant, Bartram said, but she lost contact with them and disappeared...

Bartram said Alexie "was fine for a while because she was on medication and then all of a sudden, she lost it."

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Three days before Christmas, "Henry Alexander Macomb" was born in the detached garage of an Eastpointe house. That cold garage in southern Macomb County would be the only home he would know for his short, lonely life...

"This baby must have suffered greatly," Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said after the court appearance...

Berlin said the baby was left in the uninsulated, wood-sided garage from Dec. 22 to Dec. 24 when temperatures were in the 40s and 50s. The National Weather Service reports that the temperature in the area on Dec. 22 dropped to 24 degrees. Over the next two days, the low temperature was 37 degrees.

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