Overview
- The defendant, Donald Fields, pleaded guilty on Friday, July 10, 2026, to six counts including kidnapping, two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, and three felony firearm charges.
- Authorities say the 16-year-old Frontier International Academy student was abducted at gunpoint near a Hamtramck bus stop on April 13 and later sexually assaulted inside Fields’s van.
- Students and a school bus driver alerted police and helped track the victim’s phone, and the teen signaled for help inside a Detroit Sunoco where a clerk intervened and officers made the arrest.
- As part of the plea deal prosecutors dismissed other original counts that included first-degree sexual conduct and felon-in-possession charges and sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 20.
- Officials noted Fields is a registered sex offender with prior convictions, the city honored the heroic gas-station clerk, and prosecutors said the agreement could lead to a lengthy prison term under Michigan’s corrections system.