Blowers sentenced for failure to register
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...
View Article'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen arrested, charged with passing bad...
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...
View ArticleMan 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...
View ArticleSebring 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...
View ArticleAriz. 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...
View ArticleCops: 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,...
View ArticleBarrone 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...
View ArticleClerk 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...
View ArticleCops: Fla. man thought he was stealing opioids, but wound up with laxatives...
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...
View ArticleVanwormer 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...
View ArticleFlint 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...
View ArticleBB 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...
View ArticleUpdate: 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...
View Article2 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...
View ArticleJenkins 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...
View ArticleStolte 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...
View ArticleSuspects 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.
View ArticleSuspect 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...
View ArticleWhite 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...
View Article19-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...
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