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Man sentenced for resisting/opposing deputy causing injury.

June 9, 2020

Man sentenced for resisting/opposing deputy causing injury. #MasonCountyCrime By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON — A 54-year-old Branch Township man was sentenced to time served for a conviction of resisting and opposing a sheriff’s deputy causing injury in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, June 9. A 12-member jury found Robb Ray Dodson, of 6925 E. Bockstandz Road, guilty following a criminal trial,…

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Cocaine dealer looking at 15-40 years in prison.

June 9, 2020

Cocaine dealer looking at 15-40 years in prison. #MasonCountyCrime By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON — A 43-year-old Ludington man with a long criminal history faces 15-40 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday, June 9, in 51st Circuit Court to one count of delivery/manufacture of 50-450 grams of cocaine, two counts of delivery/manufacture of cocaine less than 50 grams and…

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Defendant sent to prison for meth claims he was sexually assaulted in jail.

June 9, 2020

Defendant sent to prison for meth claims he was sexually assaulted in jail. #MasonCountyCrime By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON — A 33-year-old Muskegon man was sentenced to two to 10 years in prison Tuesday, June 9, in 51st Circuit Court for a felony conviction of methamphetamine possession and a misdemeanor conviction of false pretenses. Dustin Thomas Kropf, of 3523 Hawley…

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Driver who drove wrong way on US 31 pleads guilty.

June 9, 2020

Driver who drove wrong way on US 31 pleads guilty. #MasonCountyCrime By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON — A 59-year-old Ludington man pleaded guilty in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, June 9, to third-offense operating while intoxicated after driving the wrong way on US 31 last December. Timothy Hansen was arrested by the Mason County Sheriff’s Office the evening of Dec. 2,…

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Police news.

June 9, 2020

Police news. #MasonCountyCrime The police news is a presentation of Lenz-Balder Insurance, offering Nationwide Insurance, 201 E. Court St., Ludington, 231-845-6279, www.lenzbalderins.com. The following is recent police activity in Mason County: Monday, June 8, 2020: – 5:59 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), car/deer crash, no injury, US 31 north of Fountain Road, Victory Township. – 12:13 p.m., (Ludington Police Department),…

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