Suspects in Veto Street NW assault, robbery have admitted to crime, court records show

Four of five suspects in last week's brutal Veto Street NW home invasion, robbery and sexual assault have admitted to the crime, police said in court records. "Investigators spoke with four of the suspects, who all admitted to the home invasion/armed robbery," a Grand Rapids police officer wrote in an affidavit for an arrest warrant against the suspects. "The four suspects implicated their co-defendants as the ones who committed the multiple sexual assaults," the officer wrote. Dorian Jones, 20; Rederick Melton, 20; and Brandon Towns, 25, all were arraigned Friday on multiple counts of sex assault and armed robbery, as well as one count of entering a home without permission. A 14-year-old boy is at the Kent County juvenile detention center, so far held on charges unrelated to the June 4 home invasion. But police say he is a suspect in the case. Another man, 19-year-old James Hodges, was the subject of a manhunt until he turned himself in to police Friday afternoon. He is expected to be arraigned today on multiple felonies. Grand Rapids police say a group of mostly college students held a party Sunday night at 646 Veto Street NW. During the evening, some or all of the suspects attended the party. At 4 a.m., after the party was over and the students were asleep, they returned and entered the home through an unlocked door. Some of the people staying at the home were pistol-whipped and tied up. A woman was raped. The assailants took items such as cell phones, wallets, laptops and a television. In the probable cause affidavit, the officer wrote that police responded to the home about 5:30 a.m. "Four on-scene victims reported they were asleep when five black males, dressed in all black, entered their house and assaulted them with their fists and guns," he wrote. "All victims had visible injuries about their face and heads," he wrote.