Detroit Mayor Confronted Process Server

Michigan State Police will investigate a confrontation involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a process server attempting to serve a subpoena on one of his close friends, the Wayne County sheriff said Thursday.

The process server from the county prosecutor's office, accompanied by a sheriff's deputy, had gone to the home of Kilpatrick's sister, Ayanna, and her husband, Daniel Ferguson, to deliver the subpoena to Daniel Ferguson's cousin, businessman Bobby Ferguson, Sheriff Warren Evans said.

"Mayor Kilpatrick exited the house," Evans said during an evening news conference. "The (sheriff's) officer alleges the mayor pushed him with significant force to make him bump into the prosecutor's investigator."

James Thomas, one of Kilpatrick's lawyers, said the process server asked several questions of Daniel Ferguson. The mayor told the process server that Bobby Ferguson did not live there and twice asked the man to leave, then "gently escorted" him off the porch when he did not.