COLDWATER — Bobby Joe Blowers, 51, will serve nine months in the Branch County Jail for failing to report to the sex offender registry that he moved.Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady placed him on 18 months probation. Blowers said he lost his apartment above Lefty’s Lounge when it was forced to close. [...]
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Blowers sentenced for failure to register
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'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen arrested, charged with passing bad checks
Former NBC News correspondent Chris Hansen, whose "To Catch a Predator" reports caught countless men soliciting minors for sex, was arrested this week in Connecticut for allegedly passing bad checks.The Stamford, Conn., Police Department says Hansen owes a local firm about $13,000 for promotional materials he ordered. The check Hansen initially used to pay for the mugs, T-shirts and decals reportedly bounced. When contacted by a representative from that firm, Promotional Sales Limited, [...]
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Man charged with strangulation of girlfriend
COLDWATER — Benjamin Cody, 25, will face the charge of assault less than murder after an argument with his girlfriend Thursday night.Coldwater Police officers came to his Waterman Street address to answer a domestic disturbance call.At the door he told officers nothing was wrong. [...]
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Sebring to attend probation center
HILLSDALE — A Coldwater man on felony probation for a 2016 narcotics conviction was ordered to attend and complete programs at the regional probation center Tuesday morning for a violation.Joseph Ryan Sebring, 39, was arrested in December 2018 by Michigan State Police troopers in Branch County for possession of suspected [...]
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Ariz. police arrest nurse they say raped, impregnated incapacitated patient
A nurse has been arrested and charged with raping and impregnating an incapacitated patient at an Arizona nursing home.That 26-year-old patient, whose name has not been released, gave birth Dec. 29.The Phoenix Police Department identified the nurse as Nathan Sutherland, 36, according to the Arizona [...]
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Cops: Woman danced half-naked after threatening to shoot up Fla. Waffle House
Sheriff’s deputies say 38-year-old woman dropped her pants and danced half-naked in a Waffle House parking lot in Pensacola, Fla., Monday afternoon.Before doing that, the restaurant manager reported, she threatened to shoot everyone and, confronting him in the parking lot, tried to grab his genitals, according to an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit. Then she leaned forward and licked the manager on both sides of his face.A witness in the [...]
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Barrone charged with injuring corrections officers
COLDWATER — Levi Barrone, 40, will serve a year in the Branch County Jail, but may face prison time for injuring two Branch County Corrections Officers.Before the Wat erl oo, Indiana, resident was sentenced Monday on marijuana and weapons charges, he was [...]
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Clerk sentenced for stealing lottery tickets
COLDWATER — A former Quincy women, Esmeralda Gonzalez, 34, was sentenced Monday to two to five years prison for embezzling lottery tickets from the Quincy Lightening Quick Stop, last June, while employed there.Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady made her sentence concurrent to prison time for convictions in Hillsdale County Circuit Court. [...]
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Cops: Fla. man thought he was stealing opioids, but wound up with laxatives instead
A Florida man who thought he was stealing opioids wound up with laxatives instead, police say.Peter Hans Emery Jr., 69, was caught on surveillance video taking a handful of pills from a bottle he found inside a lockbox, according to Tampa TV station WTVT. The incident happened at a home in Pinellas Park.The label on the bottle indicated it [...]
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Vanwormer charged with intimidating neighbor with shotgun
UNION CITY — James Vanwormer II, 30, was charged with four felonies including assault with a dangerous weapon, a sawed off shotgun, after he reportedly threatened a neighbor Monday evening.Union City Police officer Travis Ferry responded to [...]
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Flint sentenced to prison for fleeing police
HILLSDALE — A Quincy man who pled guilty to fourth-degree fleeing and eluding police last year was sentenced to prison Monday morning. Corwin Forrest Flint, 44, admitted to fleeing from Jonesville Police Officer David Grumhaus, ultimately ditching his vehicle on a back road in Fayette Township and fleeing the area. [...]
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BB vandals return; over $25,000 in damage to area homes, businesses
QUINCY — The person or persons using either a pellet or BB gun to damage windows is back at it after law enforcement received reports Monday and Tuesday in the Village of Quincy.Quincy Police Chief Jeremy Burch said a window at Patti’s Bridal Store, located at 6 W. [...]
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Update: Sheriff's office seeks information in abduction attempt
HILLSDALE COUNTY — The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office released new information on the man who is wanted in connection with an attempted abduction in Jefferson Township in Hillsdale County on Friday during a press conference Saturday evening.Lt. Todd Moore of the HCSO briefed members of the media on department’s investigation, now entering its second day, of the incident which took place around 4 p.m. Friday in the area of [...]
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2 from Indiana sentenced for meth
COLDWATER — Two Indiana residents avoided prison time in Michigan after accepting plea bargains in Branch County Circuit Court.Kenneth Nickolson, 57, of Waterloo, Indiana, pled guilty to possession of a controlled substance and will serve nine months in the Branch County Jail.Michigan [...]
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Jenkins charged with resisting officers, meth
COLDWATER — Ryan Jenkins, 29, of Fulton, will face charges of resisting arrest after Union City Police officer Travis Ferry stopped him Saturday for an expired license plate.There was also a warrant for his arrest for possession of meth in the village last October. [...]
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Stolte races to prison after chase
COLDWATER — Alexandria Stolte, 19, drove herself to prison at speeds of over 100 mph Oct. 23 after she fled for 40 miles in a two county police chase.Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady rejected her plea for county jail time and a [...]
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Suspects sought in break-in
Michigan State Police need help to identify a man and woman who broke into a home in Kinderhook Township over the weekend taking guns and safes.
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Suspect arrested in BB gun case
Acting on a tip, Coldwater Police arrested and charged Rickey Dale Cox II, 44, with malicious destruction of property in two of the more than three dozen instances where a BB gun was used to shoot out windows or damage them.
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White to fill remainder of Kimble's term
BRANCH COUNTY — Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady, late Wednesday, removed the acting from Prosecutor Valerie White’s title; naming her as the replacement for resigned Branch County Prosecutor Ralph Kimble.Judge O’Grady has known all the local applicants for the job, consulted with others in the Judicial system, and made the [...]
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19-year-old caught on Snapchat setting man’s pants on fire, Texas police say
A 19-year-old Austin, Texas, woman is accused of setting an acquaintance’s pants on fire and recording it herself on Snapchat, according to court documents.Lilly Elizabeth Sanchez is charged with aggravated assault, a second-degree felony, in connection with the Jan. 2 incident, an arrest affidavit filed Wednesday said.The acquaintance told investigators that he had gotten into a minivan with other people at a friend’s house. On a trip to a gas station, he fell [...]
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