Governor’s budget vetoes put local deputies’ jobs in peril. LANSING – Governor Gretchen Whitmer cut the Secondary Road Patrol program as part of her vetoes that slash close to $1 billion from the 2020 state budget Wednesday, Oct. 2. The program pays for additional deputies to patrol rural roads, and local sheriffs say this could put jobs at stake. In…
Crashes top police activity. #MasonCountyCrime The following is police activity in Mason County Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019: – 12:01 p.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), two-vehicle crash, no injuries, US 10 and Pere Marquette Highway, Pere Marquette Township. A vehicle driven by a 16-year-old Ludington male was pulling out of McDonald’s and failed to yield to a vehicle driven by a…
Felonious assault tops police activity. #MasonCountyCrime SCOTTVILLE – A felonious assault was reported Tuesday, Oct. 1, shortly before 6:30 p.m. in the 100 block of State Street, according to Michigan State Police Trooper Kelsey Case. The incident involved a 15-year-old Scottville boy and a 52-year-old Scottville man. The man received a minor injury, Case said. No arrests were made. The…
Walmart shopper stole over $3,139 in merchandise by ‘under-ringing.’ #MasonCountyCrime By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON – A 35-year-old Sheridan Township woman will owe $3,139 in restitution to Walmart after pleading guilty in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Oct. 1, to first-degree retail fraud. Allison Marie Bunker, of 5342 E. Fountain Rd., faces serving 90 days up front of a one-year discretionary…
Man faces jail for B-B gun assault. #MasonCountyCrime By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON – A 50-year-old Sherman Township man faces serving seven months up front of a one-year discretionary jail term after pleading guilty in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Oct. 1, to charges of felonious assault, assault and battery, maintaining a drug house and methamphetamine use. Robert Wayne Johnson, of…
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