LANSING — The city's police department has a new second-in-command. Eric Pratl, a patrol captain who also has led the community policing unit, has been promoted to assistant chief by Chief Rob ...

Eric was born January 15, 1966, in Huntington, PA to Clara Ann (Koontz) Bratton and the late Barry D. Bratton. The family moved to East Lansing when Eric was 3 years of age, and then he moved with ...