No settlement; suit against Coldwater, police set for trial
GRAND RAPIDS — Mediation to settle the unlawful arrest, civil rights lawsuit by Tiffany McNeil against the City of Coldwater, Coldwater Police Department and officer Lewis Eastmead, plus other city...
View ArticleGonzalez prisoned
HILLSDALE — A Quincy woman arrested in early August on multifarious theft related charges in and around the city of Jonesville will serve prison time. Esmeralda Gonzalez, 33, was sentenced to serve...
View ArticleLie about crime sends woman to jail
COLDWATER — April Howard expected to leave Branch County Circuit Court Monday to go to work. Instead the 36-year-old Springfield resident went to jail for 30 days for filing a false police...
View ArticleTwo more defendants sent for mental exams
COLDWATER — Two defendants, Jamie Fuller, 49, and Romello Maxwell, 21, will be sent to the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry to determine if they were "criminally responsible" at the time of...
View ArticleFamily dispute has 2 facing felony home invasion
COLDWATER — A Fort Wayne, Indiana, couple; Kenneth Perryman, 52, and Jessica Prater, 37, are in jail charged with breaking into Prater’s sisters home and attacking two people with a shovel.According to...
View ArticleShop lifter faces life as habitual offender
COLDWATER — A history of shoplifting has Steve Jaquish, 60, facing life in prison as a habitual criminal.Friday morning loss prevention at the Coldwater Walmart recognized Jaquish from previous arrests...
View ArticleMacey sentenced for St. Patty's Day street fight
COLDWATER — Kyle Macey, 21, was sentenced to 18 months probation and a year in jail for his part in a March 17 street brawl in Coldwater’s Fourth Ward.Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady suspended...
View ArticleSiler enters not guilty plea
Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady accepted the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity from Sarah Siler, Monday.
View ArticleDiffendal avoids prison
COLDWATER — Rodney Diffendal, 37, will try to complete 18 months probation after finishing eight months jail for selling meth in March.A Coldwater Police informant set up a buy from Diffendal who went...
View ArticleByrd sentenced to 6 months for meth
COLDWATER — Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady realized Diana Byrd, 49, was "difficult to supervise on bond" so he decided against probation and sentenced her to six months jail after she pleaded...
View ArticleGriffin sentenced for heroin
COLDWATER — Lee Griffin, 32, will get a chance to stay off heroin upon being sober for 79 days after his July 28 arrest in Coldwater. He pleaded guilty to possession of heroin. Branch County Circuit...
View ArticleMan takes troopers to wife's remains 8-plus years later
Authorities believe they’ve recovered the remains of a southwestern Michigan woman who disappeared in 2010 while getting her mail.
View ArticleLovell warned about fighting in sentence
COLDWATER — The warning for Tyler Lovell, 22, of Pittsford came from Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady when he sentenced him for a St. Patrick’s Day street brawl. Lovell will serve five months...
View ArticleRecord sends Gibson to prison
COLDWATER — Jeffrey Gibson, 39, promised Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady, "I’ve learned my lessons." That was not enough to stop the judge from sending the former Sturgis resident to prison...
View ArticleChristman sent back to prison
COLDWATER — Michael Christman, 44, got his wish to return to prison because he said he was not getting his medications at the Branch county Jail. Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady sentenced him...
View ArticleStolte charged after Wednesday chase
COLDWATER — Homeless and seriously addicted to meth, Alexandria Stolte, 19, ran from police Wednesday, "so I could get help and get away from drugs," she said. Stolte is now charged with fleeing...
View ArticleJamie Coyle loses appeal in CSC case
LANSING — Jamie Coyle, 41, will have to serve his minimum 19 to 40 years in prison after a Branch County Circuit Court jury of nine women and three men convicted him of five counts of Criminal Sexual...
View ArticleVanScoder pleads in robbery case Monday
COLDWATER — Half an inch closer and Bryceton VanScoder, 20, would have been killed as he and three friends tried to break into an Algansee home March 28. The Ohio youth pleaded guilty Monday to...
View Article3 arrested in Union City Monday
UNION CITY — Three neighbors ended up in jail early Monday morning after one, Kevin Havener, 28, tried to avoid arrest on a Friend of the Court warrant for back child support. Union City Police officer...
View ArticleBailey and Dwater fail probation
COLDWATER — Two defendants who promised Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady they wanted, and needed, treatment are back in jail after failing on probation.Robin Bailey, 33, had probation revoked...
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