An Addison man waived preliminary examinations Wednesday in Lenawee County District Court in three home burglary cases to be added to four other cases already pending in circuit court. Jonathan Warren Lewis, 36, is to be arraigned March 2 on the additional charges in circuit court.Four cases which involve home burglaries in Cambridge Township during November and December are scheduled for a hearing on March 9 in circuit court.The cases bound over [...]
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Exams waived in burglaries by Addison man
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Hearing scheduled in Adrian arson case
A Detroit man charged with taking part in setting fire to an Adrian home on July 11 was scheduled for a hearing on March 30 when he appeared Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court on a second-degree arson charge.Breshard Daniel Delaney, 26, asked if the arson hearing would conflict with his trial on unrelated charges of assault with intent to murder and firearms charges. A trial is scheduled to begin in that case on March 22.Public defender Rhonda [...]
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Adrian man facing repeat assault penalty
A 25-year-old Adrian man accused of assaulting a girlfriend was bound over to Lenawee County Circuit Court Wednesday on felony and repeat offender charges that carry a minimum 25-year prison term.Jeramy Allen Hogan was bound over to face trial after a hearing in district court on charges of third-offense domestic violence, assault by strangulation, aggravated stalking and fourth-offense habitual offender. He remains in jail in lieu of bonds that total $200,500. [...]
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Manslaughter charged in Deerfield fight death
A fist fight last fall that turned fatal has a Clayton man facing a manslaughter charge and possible life prison term as a habitual offender.Jacky Charles Bell, 44, was arraigned in Lenawee County District Court by video from jail on Wednesday. He is accused of causing the Sept. 22 death of Nathan Vance, 33, of Adrian. He died from head injuries suffered during a fight outside the home of a Deerfield woman both were seeing, according to Michigan State Police reports. [...]
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Adrian robbery suspect ruled competent to assist in defense
A 22-year-old Adrian man charged with taking part in a baseball bat mugging in Adrian on Oct. 19 was ruled competent during a hearing Wednesday in Lenawee County District Court. James Markus Emerson was returned to jail to await a preliminary hearing on March 2.Emerson faces armed robbery and assault charges in the Oct. 19 incident. He and Brian Joseph Berean, 22, of Adrian are accused of threatening a man walking on Union Street and stealing his wallet. Berean [...]
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Felony charges filed in cross-town Adrian theft
A 23-year-old Adrian man cried and shook his head in denial during his video arraignment Thursday from the Lenawee County Jail on charges he took part in breaking into a home and robbing an Adrian College student of jewelry early Wednesday morning."I’m just trying to get home, go to baseball practice and finish my career at Siena Heights University," Marcus Eusebio Stewart told a judge at the arraignment. His request for release on a [...]
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Federal judge tosses suit in Adrian robbery
A man convicted of robbing an Adrian convenience store cannot sue Lenawee County and the Adrian police detective who investigated the case, a U.S. District Court judge ruled when she dismissed the complaint.Isaac Decrais Harris filed a complaint in federal court last month, claiming the officer and Lenawee County violated his constitutional rights when authorities arrested and prosecuted him in 2004 and 2005.Evidence presented at his 2005 trial included a security [...]
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Lenawee County property tax foreclosures ordered
A hearing on Lenawee County’s annual property tax foreclosures was wrapped up in record time Monday. No property owners appeared and no objections were filed to an order foreclosing on 309 real estate parcels.A half-dozen property owners appeared a week ago for a show cause hearing in the foreclosure process, said assistant Lenawee County Prosecutor Douglas Hartung before asking Circuit Judge Anna Marie Anzalone to sign a foreclosure order.Property [...]
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Second man charged in Adrian College student's robbery, assault
A second suspect charged with armed robbery in a break-in of a college student’s residence last week was arraigned Tuesday in Lenawee County District Court.Tommie Orlandar Lofton, 40, of Adrian is charged with taking part in breaking into a home on West Michigan Avenue, threatening two Adrian College students and robbing one of a pendant he was wearing around his neck. Lofton and Marcus Eusebio Stewart, 23, are accused of having a handgun or making the [...]
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Tecumseh Twp. driveway dispute continues after court rulings
Four lawsuits in 25 years over a driveway dispute between two Tecumseh Township businesses is enough, a judge ruled Tuesday in barring a claim she said should have been settled in previous cases.Disagreement remains about what was settled in 1989 and 2005 rulings by two other Lenawee County Circuit Court judges. The dispute may now move to the Michigan Court of Appeals.The disputed driveway is at the DuShane Sales used car business on M-50 west of Tecumseh. [...]
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Unavailable psychological report delays Monday murder case hearing
A hearing was adjourned Wednesday in Lenawee County District Court for a Morenci man accused of murdering Adrian business owner Edward Monday.Devon Douglas Snell, 20, was ordered to be returned to court April 13. Wednesday’s hearing was adjourned because a report is not yet available from a state psychologist who interviewed him last month. The report is to be used in determining whether Snell is competent to stand trial on an open murder count. [...]
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Onsted man sent to prison 20 years after sexually abusing girls
Three sisters gave tearful descriptions of sexual abuse they suffered as children more than 20 years ago before David Gerald Smith was sentenced to prison Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court."You should pay for what you did to torture this family. You deserve life in prison without parole," one victim told Smith, 56, of Onsted.A maximum guideline sentence of 11 years and 10 months to 22 ∏ years in prison was handed down by Judge Margaret M.S. Noe. [...]
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Hearing set in Lenawee County car chase case
An Adrian man accused of leading police on a pursuit from Adrian into Ohio, and then back into Lenawee County on Jan. 23, waived arraignment Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Shawn Everett Simpkins, 46, was scheduled for a hearing on April 20 after not guilty pleas were entered to felony charges of fleeing and eluding police and to assaulting, resisting and obstructing police.Madison Township police reported Simpkins fled [...]
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Adrian man faces assault, firearms charges
A 28-year-old Adrian man sentenced to probation last year for his conviction in an assault case is facing a new round of assault and firearms charges for allegedly beating a man with a pistol on Jan. 25.Jacob Christopher Edmond is awaiting a March 14 hearing after he was arraigned Wednesday on charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, felonious assault, conspiracy, felony firearm possession and possession of a firearm by a felon. He remains in jail in lieu [...]
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Palmyra farmer charged with fencing stolen tools, equipment
A Palmyra Township farmer is accused of crossing into fencing.Edward Earl Judson is charged with buying and selling stolen property at his Pope Road farm last year.A stash of stolen tools, power equipment, guns and other materials were reportedly seized from Judson’s farm after an undercover police investigation. The 65-year-old farmer was arraigned Thursday in Lenawee County District [...]
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Judge to hear Cambridge campground dispute
A judge ruled Monday to allow a dispute over use of the former Frontier City amusement park property in Cambridge Township to be fought out in court.A default judgment against Dale and Dee Warner was set aside by Lenawee County Circuit Judge Anna Marie Anzalone, allowing the farm owners to defend against a complaint of having an illegal campground.The Warners missed a deadline last fall to file a defense to Cambridge Township’s lawsuit, claiming they [...]
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Woman sentenced in Tecumseh theft by caregiver
A former employee of an adult care home in Tecumseh was sentenced to community service work for stealing a dementia patient’s wedding ring in December. Rhoda Marie Shirley, 47, pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor count of larceny between $200 and $1,000 on Feb. 3 and was sentenced Monday in Lenawee County District Court.Shirley was a caregiver for the woman from whom she stole, said Judge Jonathan L. Poer."In that position, you took advantage of [...]
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Adrian man 2nd to be charged in alleged farm-based criminal enterprise
A second man was charged in Lenawee County District Court with conducting a criminal enterprise in the alleged buying and selling of stolen tools and equipment at a Palmyra Township farm last year.Joseph Tyler Yager, 38, of Adrian was arraigned by video from jail on Monday. He was already facing charges of breaking into a barn in Clayton on Aug. 24 and stealing a chain saw.Yager is now awaiting a March 14 preliminary hearing on a criminal [...]
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Hearing delayed in Adrian robbery case
A man charged with breaking into an Adrian College student’s residence and robbing him of a pendant he wore on his neck asked for a psychological evaluation at a hearing Wednesday in Lenawee County District Court.The motion by Marcus Eusebio Stewart, 23, of Adrian, was granted by Judge Laura J. Schaedler. She adjourned Wednesday’s preliminary hearing until June 29.Stewart and another Adrian man, Tommie Orlandar Lofton, 40, are charged with armed [...]
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Deerfield manslaughter case advances
A Clayton man accused of causing the death of a man he injured in a fistfight waived a preliminary examination on a manslaughter charge Wednesday in Lenawee County District Court.Jacky Charles Bell, 44, was bound over to circuit court for arraignment on March 23. His bond was reduced from $30,000 to $20,000 cash or surety.Bell was charged last month after a Michigan State Police completed an investigation into the death of Nathan Vance, 33, of Adrian. Bell [...]
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