Hillsdale man admits taking part in burglaries for heroin
A Hillsdale County man told a judge Wednesday he took part in four daytime home burglaries in Lenawee County last year to get money to feed his heroin habit.David Ross Ames, 30, of North Adams pleaded...
View ArticleProbation given for email scam
The Blissfield woman who admitted scamming a family member out of thousands of dollars by posing as an Ohio court official in emails was sentenced to probation Thursday in Lenawee County Circuit...
View ArticlePrison term for sex abuse upheld by state court of appeals
A man convicted as a teenager of sexually abusing children was denied an appeal of his seven-to-15-year prison term.The Michigan Court of Appeals turned down an appeal application from Robert Dwight...
View ArticleHearing set on Adrian police station bomb threat
A burglary suspect charged with threatening to blow up the Adrian police station waived arraignment Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Not guilty pleas were entered for Draven Julius Moralli and...
View ArticleLenawee County to launch drug court
A new approach to dealing with drug crimes is to begin this fall in Lenawee County Circuit Court.An adult drug court program, funded by the state, will divert 65 to 80 offenders into long-treatment and...
View ArticleExcessive force claim against Lenawee County deputy dismissed
An Adrian man’s lawsuit, claiming a Lenawee County sheriff’s deputy broke his wrist while handcuffing him, was dismissed in U.S. District Court in Detroit after a settlement was reported.An order...
View ArticleHearing set in Lenawee County jail heroin case
A Detroit man accused of smuggling heroin into the Lenawee County Jail waived arraignment Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Freddie, also known as Torrey, Darnell Marshall Sr., 37, was...
View ArticleTrial set for fatal Lenawee County fight
The Clayton man charged with the death of the man he punched during a fight is headed for an October trial.Jacky Charles Bell, 45, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court before...
View ArticleDevils Lake case delayed again
Another delay was ordered Wednesday in the court battle over Devils Lake bottomland.A hearing on a motion that could allow Devils Lake Ventures to set up a 114-slip marina on Devils Lake Highway was...
View ArticleFormer Tecumseh band director admits to sex with student
A former Tecumseh High School band and orchestra director has admitted sexually abusing a student over a seven-month period last year.Michael David Bough, 49, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lenawee...
View ArticleAdrian stabbing suspect enters not-guilty plea
A not-guilty plea to an open murder charge was entered Wednesday for Alexander Antonio Wimbush after he waived arraignment in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Wimbush, 20, of Adrian, is charged with...
View ArticleTrial set in Lenawee County cocaine case
An Adrian man allegedly caught with cocaine was scheduled for trial Aug. 30 during a hearing Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Jason Michael Flores, 36, was arrested Oct. 25, when police...
View ArticleJail death trial delayed as attorneys grapple over medical evidence;...
As attorneys battle over medical evidence, the October jury trial for a lawsuit over a 2010 death of a Lenawee County Jail inmate was scratched from the federal district court calendar in...
View ArticlePrison term for standoff in Adrian laundromat
The March 29 armed standoff with police at an Adrian laundromat will send a 31-year-old Adrian man to prison.Brian Matthew Netter was sentenced Thursday in Lenawee County Circuit Court to a...
View ArticleAdrian woman waives hearing on Trestle Park meth cooker charges
Justina Marie Ramos was bound over to circuit court for arraignment July 20 on four felony charges involving operation of a drug laboratory producing hazardous waste and operating it in a public park....
View ArticleFather accused of being on opioids in car crash that killed 8-year-old son
Jacob Ray Leffler, 33, was arraigned Friday in Lenawee County District Court on felony counts of operating while intoxicated causing death and reckless driving causing death. If convicted of either...
View ArticleShooting defendant faces additional allegations in Erie St. death
Four additional charges were added: assault with intent to murder, carrying a weapon with unlawful intent, carrying a concealed weapon and felony firearm.
View ArticleLenawee County judge lowers sewer fee for Gaslight Village
Lenawee County Circuit Judge Anna Marie Anzalone agreed with Gaslight’s expert witness on a connection fee that is more than half of what Adrian Township sought from J.E. Johnson of Midland.
View ArticleDefendant in car assault sentenced
Mason Kenneth Schafer pleaded guilty June 13 in Lenawee County District Court to reduced charges of aggravated assault and attempted resisting and obstructing police.
View ArticleEmbezzlement gets Adrian man jail time, restitution
Pinsoneault pleaded guilty in June to stealing $13,032.42 while serving as the booster club’s president from October 2013 until the money was discovered missing in November 2015.
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