Dad gets prison for beating, biting baby
Tony Anthony Morgan was convicted of beating and biting his 3-month-old daughter last fall.For that, the 36-year-old Adrian man is headed to prison for 38 months to 10 years.That sentenced was handed...
View ArticleAdrian man to testify against co-defendant in robbery of student
An Adrian man accused of breaking into an Adrian College student’s residence and robbing him of a necklace pendant in the early morning of Feb. 24 accepted a lesser charge Wednesday in Lenawee County...
View ArticleBurglary suspect threatens police bombing
A 19-year-old Adrian man was charged Tuesday in Lenawee County District Court with making a terrorist threat of blowing up the Adrian Police Department when he was arrested in March for breaking into a...
View ArticleJudge allows insurance company to join injured man as 2nd plaintiff
The insurance company that paid nearly $400,000 in worker's compensation benefits to the injured man was allowed by a judge to join him in pursuing claims against the elevator company and businesses...
View ArticleEmbezzlement hearing set for Onsted man
David Andrew Seel, 50, pleaded not guilty in a written waiver of arraignment Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court. He remains free on personal recognizance.
View ArticleAdrian robbery case hearing waived
Jason Neil MacDonald, 35, is to be arraigned June 22 in circuit court on an armed robbery count. He remains in jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond set after his arrest in March.
View ArticleWitnesses give conflicting accounts of fatal stabbing during hearing
Alexander Antonio Wimbush, 20, did not testify, but an Adrian police detective described his statement claiming self defense against Shears and two others. Shears died minutes after being stabbed in...
View ArticleShotgun repair ends in felony charge for Clayton man
James Decatur Jones, 38, was arraigned Monday in Lenawee County District Court on a felony count of possession of a firearm by a felon and a misdemeanor charge of reckless use of a firearm. He remains...
View ArticleHearings sought in Lenawee County Jail heroin case
Freddie Darnell Marshall Sr., 37, of Detroit is charged with heroin delivery and furnishing contraband to prisoners. Matthew Eugene Bowerman, 31, of Adrian faces a use of heroin count.
View ArticleNot guilty plea in Medina Township shooting case
Jason Lee Schoch, 20, was scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on July 6 before Lenawee County Circuit Judge Anna Marie Anzalone.
View ArticleTrial set in Adrian house arson case
Nathaniel Zachariah Torres, 24, was charged in October with second-degree arson after an Adrian police investigation. No one was reported injured in the July 11 fire at 533 James St.
View ArticleHearing waived on bomb threat
The Adrian man charged with threatening to blow up the Adrian Police Department waived a preliminary examination Wednesday in Lenawee County District Court.Draven Julius Moralli, 19, was bound over to...
View ArticleHearing set for nursing home injury lawsuit
The family of Rita Trolz of Brookyn filed suit earlier this year against Provincial House and ProMedica Health Systems Inc. The suit claims nursing home staff failed to provide adequate care and a safe...
View ArticleAppeal denied in assault sentence for Adrian man in prison
Marcos Anthony Buie, 30, asked the Michigan Court of Appeals to review his case following his sentencing on Oct. 30. The three-judge appeals court panel denied Buie’s application “for lack of merit in...
View ArticleCrash lawsuit file by Blissfield woman headed for trial
Laura Fisher claims AAA of Michigan unreasonably refused to pay or unreasonably delayed payment for all of her medical treatments, lost earnings and her daughters’ counseling.
View ArticlePrison term error fixed for inmate in corrections officer assault
Doriel Dewayne Briggs, 32, was sentenced in November to three to five years for last year’s assault at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility. The assault sentence was shortened Monday in Lenawee...
View ArticlePrison upheld in Adrian man's torture case
Felipe Anzaualda Perez, 29, was handed down 80-month-to-10-year prison terms for three counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm that he pleaded guilty to on Aug. 4 last year. A court of...
View ArticlePrison upheld for Adrian man's sex, heroin convictions
An order dated June 8 lets stand Lenawee County Circuit Court decisions in the case. A three-judge appeals court panel found a lack of merit in issues raised in the application to have the cases reviewed.
View ArticlePolice: Woman was driving drunk at three times limit
Tecumseh police arrested an Adrian woman on a drunken-driving charge on the morning of June 10 when she had a blood-alcohol level of about three times the legal limit.Police were alerted at 8:49 a.m....
View ArticleManslaughter witnesses at hearing say slain man was aggressor
Nathan Vance ran across a parking lot at his former girlfriend’s apartment building with a knife on Sept. 22 to assault her current boyfriend, Jacky Charles Bell, witnesses told the Lenawee County...
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