Exams waived in burglaries by Addison man
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...
View ArticleHearing 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...
View ArticleAdrian 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...
View ArticleManslaughter 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...
View ArticleAdrian 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...
View ArticleFelony 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...
View ArticleFederal 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...
View ArticleLenawee 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...
View ArticleSecond 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...
View ArticleTecumseh 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...
View ArticleUnavailable 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...
View ArticleOnsted 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...
View ArticleHearing 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...
View ArticleAdrian 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....
View ArticlePalmyra 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...
View ArticleJudge 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...
View ArticleWoman 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...
View ArticleAdrian 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...
View ArticleHearing 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...
View ArticleDeerfield 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,...
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