In January of this year, Ishpeming police were on the lookout for Todd Raymond Mills, aka Todd Wentworth, in connection with operating a meth lab. In a January news article at Upper Michigan’s Source, police described the suspect as armed and dangerous, saying that Mills intended to “commit suicide by…
Deborah Salmon, a 48-year-old former Kentwood Parks and Recreation clerk, recently pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 from the city. Salmon pleaded guilty to embezzlement; city officials suspect that she may have stolen up to $300,000 from programs designed for seniors, children, and upkeep of the city’s parks. According…
On Thursday September 19, a Jackson man thought to be in his 30s was arrested after officials with JNET (Jackson Narcotics Enforcement Team) discovered an alleged methamphetamine lab inside a Bates Street home, according to a news article at Mlive.com. The man’s name was not given in the article, however…
In December of 2012, Royale Runyon allegedly robbed 26-year-old John Breslin as he walked near College Avenue SE in Grand Rapids, then fired a gun at the victim intending to kill him according to a news article at Mlive.com. Last week, after jurors listened to testimony in the case for…
Michigan drivers license reinstatement attorneys understand the impact to an individual’s driving privilege when that person is arrested and convicted multiple times for drunk driving. Just over a week ago, 41-year-old Jose Robles-Guzman of Lawrence Township was arraigned on charges of a third offense OWI and second offense of driving…
At approximately 11 p.m. on Wednesday September 18, police received what they described as a “deluge” of calls related to an elderly woman being beat up by a man at a Super 8 Motel parking lot on Little Mack. The 35-year-old man, Thomas Gulas, allegedly severely beat his own mother…
In 2006, four people were convicted in an e-mail scandal in Clio after allegedly hacking into thousands of e-mails belonging to Clio schools Superintendent Fay Latture. The four individuals who allegedly accessed Latture’s e-mail account in 2005 without authorization include Diane Reed, Larry Emmerling, Rebecca Freifeld, and Julia Keyes. In…
On Monday September 16, 58-year-old Clinton Edward Smith was arraigned in the death of his estranged wife, Delores Mae Smith. The defendant is charged with open murder after allegedly stabbing her to death. Smith was arrested in Saginaw on Friday, September 13 when police found him hiding beneath a trailer…
On Monday evening September 16, two men sustained injuries in a shooting and were transported to Allegiance Health. One of the victims, a 20-year-old Jackson man, was being treated for life-threatening injuries after being shot numerous times in the torso. An Albion man who is 36 years old was also…
Raogo Ouedraogo of Philadelphia was convicted by a jury on charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and kidnapping resulting in death in the 2007 death of Donald Dietz of Saranac. Dietz disappeared in 2007, his body never found. Ouedraogo was sentenced to life in prison.…
