(WXYZ) — 7 Action News has learned that Zion Foster’s cousin has been released from prison after completing a boot camp program.
Jaylin Brazier was released Tuesday from the Special Alternative Incarceration Facility at the Cooper Street Correctional Facility in Jackson.
He was sentenced in March 2022 to between 1 year and 11 months and 4 years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to a police officer. Brazier is believed to have been the last person to see Foster.
After the argument, Brazier told police that he dumped Foster’s body in a trash can after she disappeared on January 4. Authorities say the information they have is that Zion’s body was placed in a dumpster and then possibly moved to the Pine Tree Acres landfill. A month-long search of the landfill failed to find his body.
Foster has been missing since January 2022. Detroit police have said they believe Foster is dead and have called the search a recovery operation.
Detroit Police Chief James White was asked about the case today.
“That case is still open, we think we’ve got a strong suspect for that case, there’s a lot of work to be done. This is a sad, sad, unnecessary incident that happened in our community,” White said. Investigators have to do a lot of work with the prosecutor in that case.”
