Man accused in shooting serving two years in federal prison
A Clinton Township man has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for three weapons charges based on a Warren incident and for violating his federal parole.
Michael K. Sinnawi received the sentence last month from Macomb Circuit Judge Jennifer Faunce in Mount Cle- mens after pleading no contest in December to possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and carrying a concealed weapon in connection with the 2022 Thanksgiving Day shooting a man in the area of 12 Mile and Schoenherr roads. He received credit for nearly 15 months of time served.
The sentencing was held remotely by video, and Sinnawi appeared from federal prison in Milan.
The term will be served simultaneously with a twoyear prison terms handed down Jan. 4 by U.S. District Judge Sean Cox in Detroit. Prison will be followed by one year of supervised release.
An attempted murder charge and other charges against him were dismissed in early 2023 when witnesses against him failed to show up for his preliminary examination at 37th District Court in Warren. But Macomb prosecutors later reissued the weapons charges.
The incident compelled a federal parole violation due to his December 2020 conviction of possession with intent to distribute Oxycodone. He and two other men were caught by police in August 2019 in possession of about 450 Oxycodone Hydrochloride pills, $45,000 in cash and four cell phones in a Bismark, N.D. hotel room, according to court documents.
During his supervised federal release, Sinnawi cannot “own, possess or have access to a firearm, ammunition, destructive device or dangerous weapon,” records say.
In the Nov. 24, 2022 incident, Sinnawi went to a Warren residence to fight his girlfriend’s brother whom he had threatened previously at another location. He fired shots at him, striking him while he was sitting in a vehicle, police said.
Sinnawi has a prior conviction in Macomb County for assault with a dangerous weapon, to which he pleaded guilty in November 2005, following the July 2005 incident in Sterling Heights, according to court records. He received status under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act in which the conviction would be erased upon successful completion of three years probation records say. However, he violated probation in 2008, and his HYTA status was revoked.