ADRIAN — An Adrian man who testified against a murder suspect last year was sentenced Friday to time already served in jail for a 2014 home invasion.Deandrew Donshay Woodard, 33, told Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M.S. Noe that he’s been in and out of trouble because he didn’t have empathy for others and didn’t have anything in his life that he cared about. But he said that has changed."I’m getting old," he said. "I don’t want [...]
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Sentence allows defendant to remain free
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Lenawee County public defenders settle into their new offices while managing large caseload
Ten months since starting up, the Lenawee County Public Defender Office staff has settled into its new location and is dealing with a growing caseload.Each of the four attorneys got to pick the paint color for their individual offices in the lower level of the former courthouse annex building at 113 W. Front St., across the street from the old courthouse. They also have new furniture, replacing the folding tables and chairs they started with. There is room to expand, both in [...]
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Trial scheduled in April stabbing
A three-day murder trial was scheduled last week in Lenawee County Circuit Court for a stabbing incident in April in Adrian.Alexander Antonio Wimbush’s trial on open murder and weapons charges is scheduled for Dec. 6-8 before Judge Anna Marie Anzalone.Wimbush, 20, of Adrian is accused of stabbing to death Tyreice Kahlil Shears, 18, on the sidewalk outside the Maple Village Apartments on South Main Street in Adrian.Public defender John Glaser argued [...]
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Trial scheduled for three Adrian arson suspects
Three men accused of burning a house on James Street in Adrian on July 11, 2015, have a trial date in November.The trial on second-degree arson charges against Breshard Daniel Delaney, 26, of Dearborn, Azariah Meshach Torres, 20, of Adrian and Nathaniel Zachariah Torres, 24, of Adrian is scheduled for Nov. 8-9 in Lenawee County Circuit Court before Judge Margaret M.S. Noe.The cases against the men have been delayed as the court and attorneys arranged to [...]
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Standoff suspect to have exam
A Jasper man who kept himself barricaded in a house for almost 10 hours Sept. 9 and 10 will have a psychological exam.Lenawee County District Judge Laura J. Schaedler on Wednesday granted Zachary Luke Dusseau’s public defender’s request for a forensic exam to determine his criminal responsibility and ability to assist in his defense.Dusseau, 22, was arrested on the morning of Sept. 10 after the standoff at a house in Jasper. Police were called to the house [...]
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Father seeks a long sentence in daughter's heroin death
Brenton Craig Fox, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, Oct. 4, by Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M.S. Noe on charges of involuntary manslaughter and to possession of less than 50 grams of heroin. He pleaded guilty in August to providing the heroin that killed Zachary Noah Gregory, 21, on Sept. 23, 2014. He also admitted to providing the heroin that killed 20-year-old Vera Gennell "Genny" McBee on Sept. 22, 2014.
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Hearings in Medina Township shooting waived
Wesley James Derby, 21, of Adrian and William Roger Stanley Gates, 21, and Joseph James Hicks, 21, both of Wauseon, Ohio, were bound over to Lenawee County Circuit Court after waiving preliminary examinations.
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Britton carjack suspect waives examination
ADRIAN — A man charged with stealing the car a Detroit woman was filling with gas at the gas station in Britton waived a hearing Monday in Lenawee County District Court.Brentson Charles McIntire, 35, of Milan is charged with armed robbery and unlawful driving away of an automobile in the Sept. 18 incident at Britton Gas & Grocery. District Judge Jonathan L. Poer bound McIntire over to Lenawee County Circuit Court for arraignment on those charges after McIntire [...]
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Suspect in Adrian College robbery waives hearing
ADRIAN — A Florida man charged with a reported armed robbery in an Adrian College dorm waived a hearing on Monday in Lenawee County District Court.Jamoi Clement Bougouneau, 22, of Riviera Beach, Florida, was bound over to Lenawee County Circuit Court after waiving his preliminary examination. He is charged with armed robbery, carrying a concealed weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and felony firearm. He also was charged with a misdemeanor marijuana [...]
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Drug death-related guilty pleas withdrawn in court
Brenton Craig Fox, 25, of Adrian was to be sentenced Tuesday morning in Lenawee County Circuit Court on charges of involuntary manslaughter and possession of less than 50 grams of heroin, but he wasn't.
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Suspect takes plea in armed robbery near Morenci
Zane James Ridenour, 17, of Morenci, through his attorney, Todd Morgan of Adrian,
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Guilty plea entered in fatal fight in Deerfield
The assault charge carries a possible four-year prison term. Bell faced up to life in prison if convicted of manslaughter because he was charged as habitual offender.
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House fire leads to pot wax arrest
An Adrian man faces a marijuana possession charge following an investigation sparked by a house fire in April. Matthew James Bates, 35, was arraigned Wednesday in Lenawee County District Court on a single count of second-offense marijuana possession.A police statement in the court file said a Lenawee County sheriff’s deputy dispatched to the fire on April 20 spoke with Bates, who told him he had a medical marijuana card and was growing marijuana in the house at 3407 Ogden [...]
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Two plead to lying to police about Morenci-area shooting
ADRIAN — Two young men involved in an incident that resulted in a shooting in March outside Morenci entered guilty pleas Wednesday.William Roger-Stanley Gates and Joseph James Hicks, both 21 and of Wauseon, Ohio, pleaded guilty to lying to a police officer before Lenawee County Circuit Judge Anna Marie Anzalone."I told Gary, (Lenawee County sheriff’s Detective Gary Ward), that I did not know who shot Joseph Hicks," Gates told the court. [...]
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Campus sex assaults stir debate on when to alert students
The case has renewed focus on the problem of sexual assaults involving college students and raises questions about what obligations a university has to inform students and when it's time to go public about an alleged assault.
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Michigan judge halts law banning selfie photos with ballots
DETROIT — A judge cleared the way Monday for Michigan voters to take photos of their completed ballot in the Nov. 8 election, calling the state’s ban a free-speech violation in the era of cellphone cameras and instant social media posts. U.S. District Judge Janet Neff in Grand Rapids signed an injunction to block enforcement of the photo prohibition. In response, lawyers for Secretary of State Ruth Johnson predicted "chaos" at polling places and asked the judge to [...]
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New attorney takes oath
ADRIAN — Lenawee County’s legal community welcomed a new lawyer to its ranks Tuesday.Casey Henning was sworn in Tuesday by Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M.S. Noe in Noe’s courtroom. Henning took the lawyer’s oath from Noe and the clerk of the court’s oath from Lenawee County Clerk Roxann Holloway. She also signed the registry of new lawyers sworn to practice in Lenawee County. Holloway said the registry dates back to the 1800s. [...]
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Plea entered in Lenawee County hash oil case
ADRIAN — An Ohio woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of attempted maintaining a drug house in a case involving the making of butane hash oil in a Riga Township home.Sarah Marie West, 29, of Wilmington entered the plea in Lenawee County District Court. It was part of a plea agreement that will have the original charges of operating a drug lab, operating the lab near a specific place and in the presence of a minor, delivery or manufacture of marijuana, maintaining a [...]
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Manitou Beach man sentenced in assault case
ADRIAN — A Manitou Beach man convicted of assault in a July 4 confrontation at Devils Lake was sentenced to probation, a fine and other conditions Friday in Lenawee County District Court.James Welzbacher, 72, was convicted by a jury following a one-day trial in September. He was accused of threatening a neighbor, Stanley Sala, with a ball-peen hammer, apparently because he was upset Sala had moved his boat trailer out of a shared dirt road so guests visiting Sala and his [...]
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Restitution ordered in embezzlement
ADRIAN — An Onsted man was ordered to pay at least $20,000 in restitution when he was sentenced Monday in an embezzlement case.David Andrew Seel, 51, of Onsted pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of embezzlement between $200-$1,000. Lenawee County District Judge Johnathan L. Poer sentenced him to pay restitution, a $300 fine and $1,175 in court costs and be on probation for one year.The $20,000 restitution is to be paid within 90 days. If it is not, the amount [...]
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