LUDINGTON — The following were sentenced in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, April 21, 2026: Shawn Roy-Gert Sluyter, 51, pleaded no contest Feb. 17 to third-offense domestic violence and was sentenced April 21 to 15 months in prison with credit for 227 days served; no contact with the victim; and $198 in fines and costs. The court did not…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — A 31-year-old man was sentenced to prison in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Tuesday, April 21, for convictions of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, conspiracy to commit second-degree home invasion, methamphetamine/ecstasy possession, felony firearm and third-offense habitual offender. Travis William Malone, 31, conspired with Tyler Austin Hendrickson, 31, to commit the armed robbery, said…
“He calls her and says, ‘You ratted me out to the police. If I don’t get these charges kicked, I promise I’m going to have you killed.’” By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — A 27-year-old man convicted of multiple felonies for drug dealing and crimes in connection to threatening to kill an undercover narcotics officer who he thought was…
LUDINGTON — The following were sentenced recently in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court: Nickolaus Charles Weber, 31, pleaded guilty Feb. 17, 2026 to third-degree fleeing a police officer, assaulting/resisting/obstructing police and fourth-degree fleeing a police officer and was sentenced April 14, 2026 to nine months in jail with credit for 181 days served; three years probation; and $734 in fines…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — April 16, 2026, marks seven years since William and Denita Buchanan’s 32-year-old son, Billy, was murdered, and the man who was accused of killing him remains free. “We’re going into the seventh year, and we’re no further than the day it happened,” said Denita. The murder, assault and weapon charges against Corey Ryan Beekman,…
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