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Dreamboat purchase leads to financial nightmare; Custer man receives delayed sentence

August 26, 2025

By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor HART — A man who was conned out of $15,000 by another man offering to broker the purchase of his dreamboat has still not received all of his money back yet. Eric Charles Golembiewski, 43, of Custer pleaded guilty to larceny by conversion $1,000-$20,000 July 22, 2024. During a hearing Monday Aug. 25 in Oceana…

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Ludington man, Kalkaska man arrested for construction fraud

August 25, 2025

MANISTEE — Scot Eric Latimer, 52, of Ludington, was arrested by the Manistee County Sheriff’s Office on several felony charges “following multiple complaints of construction projects where he accepted money or drew money from construction loans to perform construction work which was either never started or never completed,” said Manistee County Sheriff Brian Gutowski. According to Sheriff Gutowski, Latimer was…

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‘I could care less,’ suspect reportedly says to deputy during traffic stop

August 25, 2025

Man arrested on multiple charges and warrants BRANCH TOWNSHIP — A 27-year-old Oxford, Mich. man was arrested by a Mason County sheriff’s deputy on multiple charges and warrants following a traffic stop on Maple Road north of US 10 Saturday, Aug. 23, around 1 a.m., according to Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole. “It is alleged that once the driver was…

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Police news, published Aug. 25, 2025

August 25, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  The following is police activity over the weekend in Mason County: Friday, Aug. 22, 2025: 7:42 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), car/deer crash, no injury, Custer Road south of Sugar Grove Road, Sherman Township. 1:06 p.m., (MCSO), car/deer crash, no injury, Sixth Street…

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LPD makes pair of warrant arrests

August 21, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  LUDINGTON — A 54-year-old Ludington man was arrested by Ludington police officers on an aggravated stalking warrant Wednesday, Aug. 20, around 10:30 p.m. in the 100 block of East Fifth Street, according to Ludington Police Chief Chris Jones. The man was lodged in…

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