An 81-year-old Adrian grandfather who admitted sexually molesting a young girl more than 10 years ago said he felt relieved at being sentenced to prison Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court."I’m very sorry for what I have done. Maybe now I can start sleeping and eating," said Octaviano Burciaga.He was taken into custody to begin serving a 23-month to 10-year prison term.The victim gave the court an emotional description of suffering she [...]
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Prison sentence for Adrian grandpa convicted of child sex abuse
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Ohio man gets probation in counterfeit case
The last of three Toledo men convicted of passing phony $20 bills in Blissfield was sentenced Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Michael Shawn Williford, 38, was sentenced to five years probation and is to be transferred to Ohio for prosecution in that state for similar offenses. Williford pleaded guilty on Jan. 20 and said he got fake $20 bills from a friend that he and two others passed in Blissfield on Oct. 12, making small [...]
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Adrian drive-by shooting suspect caught
Adrian police arrested a suspect in a Valentine’s Day drive-by shooting on Treat Street, allegedly motivated by jealousy.Alexander David Deemer, 26, faces charges of attempting to murder a woman and a man inside a house in the 700 block of Treat Street. Adrian police reported five shots were fired from a passing car at the woman’s bedroom. No one was reported injured in the early-morning shooting on Feb. 14. [...]
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Drive-by shooting suspect quiet in court
A 26-year-old Adrian man accused of firing a pistol at a woman’s home on Treat Street last month showed no reaction Friday when a judge read a list of charges that included assault with intent to murder.Alexander David Deemer was arraigned in Lenawee County District Court by video from the Lenawee County Jail where he has remained held since Wednesday. He was arrested in Jackson County and returned by Adrian [...]
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Adrian woman charged in toddler scalding case
A 26-year-old Adrian woman was arraigned Monday on a child abuse charge for allegedly burning a 2-year-old boy with scalding water in December.Karrin Monique Edwards, also known as Fonseca, was scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Lenawee County District Court on March 23. A $4,000 bond was continued. She also faces a charge of lying to a police officer during an investigation of a felony.Edwards was arrested after an Adrian police investigation of the [...]
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Student waives court hearing in poisoning case
A Lenawee Intermediate School District Tech Center student waived a preliminary examination Monday on a felony poisoning charge for allegedly putting oil in an instructor’s coffee cup on Dec. 16.Austen Mathew Evers, 17, of Adrian was ordered bound over to Lenawee County Circuit Court for arraignment March 23 during an appearance in district court. He remains free on personal recognizance.Evers was charged last month with a felony count of poisoning food [...]
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Trash bin injury lawsuit survives challenge in Lenawee County court
A lawsuit over injuries an 8-year-old Hudson boy suffered when he was pinned under a large trash bin will proceed to trial after a judge rejected a motion to dismiss the case Monday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.One of the boy’s thighs was severely cut when the trash bin tipped over on him while he was doing pull-ups with a bar on the front of the bin. The accident happened Sept. 9, 2014, at his grandmother’s home near Hudson.His mother, Arminda [...]
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Farmer waives fencing hearing in Lenawee County court
A Palmyra Township farmer accused of running a criminal enterprise in stolen goods waived a hearing Monday in Lenawee County District Court. Edward Earl Judson, 65, was bound over to circuit court for arraignment March 23 on a criminal enterprise, stolen property and firearms charges.An Adrian man also charged with conducting a criminal enterprise by allegedly supplying Judson with stolen tools and equipment, also waived a hearing Monday in district court. Joseph Tyler [...]
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Second plea bargain accepted in burglary case
A Hudson woman charged with taking part in a burglary ring that was broken up with arrests in December pleaded guilty Wednesday to three breaking and entering charges in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Erika Nicole Webb, 26, admitted to driving other suspects around Lenawee County and other counties, randomly looking for homes to break into. The plea bargain resolves six burglary cases in Lenawee County she was charged in as well as other cases that will not be formally [...]
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Suspect arraigned in Adrian gas station robbery
A photo taken by a security camera during a reported armed robbery of the Shell gasoline station, 507 W. Beecher St., Adrian, led to a suspect’s arraignment Wednesday in Lenawee County District Court.Jason Neil MacDonald, 35, of Hillsdale was arrested on an armed robbery charge after an Adrian police investigation of the Jan. 10 robbery of a clerk at the gasoline station’s convenience store. A photo taken during the robbery was [...]
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Adrian man found not guilty by insanity in arson, 'demon' assault
Back in October, Michael James Conley set fire to his home and broke into a nearby house to attack an imagined demon.On Wednesday, the 56-year-old Adrian man was found not guilty by reason of insanity in Lenawee County Circuit Court. "I’d like to thank you all and I wish it hadn’t happened," Conley said after the insanity ruling by Judge Anna Marie Anzalone.His trial, originally set for April, was Wednesday at the request of a Lenawee [...]
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Economic crimes unit begins with successful record
A total of 243 people who passed bad checks, were caught shoplifting or committing other minor crimes in Lenawee County completed a diversion program last year that returned $91,165 to local merchants."The program has been successful so far. It continues to grow," Lenawee County Prosecutor Burke Castleberry said about his office’s economic crimes unit.The program launched in 2014 and is run by detective Robert Kellogg, who managed a similar program in [...]
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Issues narrowed in Raisin Township FOIA lawsuit
Disagreement over a judge’s January ruling that Raisin Township violated Michigan’s Open Meetings Act two years ago was settled Monday without another hearing in Lenawee County Circuit Court.An order was signed Monday by attorneys for Raisin Township and a resident who sued the township, confirming Judge Anna Marie Anzalone ruled the township violated both the Open Meetings Act and Freedom of Information Act.The order also denies injunctions [...]
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Nursing home worker pleads guilty to assault
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Lenawee County court order ends dock rights at lake
A couple still has access to Round Lake, thanks to a court order, but no place to dock.The right for the back lot owners to dock on the lake ended Monday, after 50 years, when a court order formally was entered Monday in Lenawee County Circuit Court, as directed in a 2-1 Michigan Court of Appeals decision.The case repeatedly was appealed after Lenawee Circuit Judge Timothy P. Pickard ruled in 2011 there was an established easement allowing Roger and Darlene [...]
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Two plead guilty to Adrian shooting
Two men charged in a July 15 shooting outside a house on East Church Street in Adrian pleaded guilty Tuesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Breshard Daniel Delaney, 26, of Dearborn pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, a habitual offender count and a charge of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He admitted firing a .40-caliber handgun early that morning as a group he was with was leaving a party at the [...]
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Fistfight death result of defending himself, Clayton man contends
A Clayton man has pleaded not guilty and claimed self defense in last fall’s death of an Adrian man.Jacky Charles Bell, 44, is charged with manslaughter for a death resulting from a fistfight in Deerfield. He was returned to jail after his arraignment Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court. A habitual offender supplement raises the potential penalty from a maximum of 15 years to life in prison.Defense attorney Rodney Leon of Adrian announced a self [...]
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Judge: Jury will decide Hudson sewage dispute
A jury may have to sort out claims of whether sewage was "blown into" a Hudson home, or backed up due to the homeowner’s defective pipes.At a hearing Monday in Lenawee County Circuit Court, attorneys argued theories of what caused sewage to pour out of a toilet into the basement of the home of Derek and Meghan Campbell on Aug. 15, 2014.Judge Anna Marie Anzalone denied both a motion by the city of Hudson to dismiss the Campbell’s suit for lack of [...]
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Lenawee County judge lectures man for 'slacking'
An Ypsilanti man was booted off probation and chastised for failing to meet his obligations at a violation sentencing on Wednesday.Bryan Michael Hamilton, 46, was convicted in 2012 of stealing from his ex-wife’s home in Macon Township. While he has served all the jail time allowed under sentencing guidelines for his attempted larceny conviction, said Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M.S. Noe, he has paid little of the restitution and costs ordered in 2013. [...]
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Adrian man pleads guilty in bat robbery
One of two men charged with using a baseball bat in an October robbery pleaded guilty to a reduced charge Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court. Then he blamed his co-defendant.James Markus Emerson, 23, of Adrian, was accused of threatening and hitting a man with a baseball bat during the robbery the evening of Oct. 19 on Union Street."I didn’t, my co-defendant did," Emerson told the court. He said he took the victim’s wallet, which [...]
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