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Police news, published April 22, 2025

April 22, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  The following is police activity in Mason County Monday, April 21, 2025: 5:32 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), a 26-year-old Manistee man was arrested on an outstanding Kent County probation violation warrant following a call related to a “suspicious person” walking down the…

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Police news, published April 21, 2025

April 21, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  The following is recent police activity in Mason County: Thursday, April 17, 2025: 7:23 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), car/deer crash, no injury, US 31 north of Forest Trail, Free Soil Township. 7:48 a.m., (MCSO), car/deer crash, no injury, Jagger Road east of…

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79th District Court arraignments, published April 21, 2025

April 21, 2025

By Alan Neushwander, Contributing Writer LUDINGTON — The following were recently arraigned in Mason County’s 79th District Court: Felonies -Ayden Evin Strouse, 20; first-degree criminal sexual conduct, second-degree criminal sexual conduct, and two counts of assault by strangulation; date of offense: Aug. 1, 2023; arrested by Ludington Police Department; arraigned April 10; preliminary hearing: June 4; bail: $25,000 cash. -Brenda…

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Person walking around neighborhoods claiming to work for internet provider sparks suspicion

April 21, 2025

LUDINGTON — A person who was walking around neighborhoods over the weekend, claiming to work for an internet provider, sparked some suspicion. “Over the weekend several citizens reported a subject walking around neighborhoods claiming to be doing work for a local internet provider,” states an announcement on the Ludington Police Department’s Facebook page Monday, April 21. “LPD has reached out…

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Trial for man accused of running over, killing wife set for May 19-23

April 18, 2025

By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — The jury trial for a 60-year-old Grand Rapids man accused of running over his wife with a car and killing her in 2023 is scheduled for May 19-23 in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court. Mark Lazon Casterman, who is currently lodged in the Mason County Jail on a $1 million cash/surety bond, is…

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