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Cigarette scam yields jail term.

June 21, 2016
Cigarette scam yields jail term.

#MasonCountyNews #CourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — A 19-year-old Detroit man was sentenced Tuesday, June 21, in 51st Circuit Court for convictions of tobacco tax act violations; using a financial transaction device without consent; and identity theft. Dijon Lamar Grimes, 19, was ordered to serve 10 months up front of a one-year discretionary jail term. Grimes obtained 139 cartons…

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Drug theft leads to jail.

June 21, 2016
Drug theft leads to jail.

#MasonCountyNews #CourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — A 38-year-old Ludington man was ordered to serve seven months up front of a one-year discretionary jail term in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, June 21, for stealing Xanax from a co-worker’s purse at McDonald’s. Christopher Lee Baysinger, of 1044 Pineway, is convicted of a felony of larceny in a building and a…

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Sex offender sent to prison.

June 21, 2016
Sex offender sent to prison.

  #MasonCountyNews     #CourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — A 59-year-old Ludington man was sentenced in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, June 21, to concurrent terms of seven to 15 years in prison for convictions of second-degree criminal sexual conduct (CSC) and third-degree CSC. Arturo Ruiz Lopez, of 605 S. Washington Ave., appeared in court Tuesday with his attorney,…

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Kayaker who punched officer sent to jail.

June 21, 2016
Kayaker who punched officer sent to jail.

#MasonCountyNews  #CourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — A 56-year-old Ludington man who punched a Mason County Sheriff’s deputy in the face after kayaking along the Ludington pier last March was sentenced Tuesday, June 21, in 51st Circuit Court to serve 60 days up front of a one-year discretionary jail term followed by 60 days of alcohol monitoring. “I would…

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Onekama man sent to prison for meth.

June 21, 2016
Onekama man sent to prison for meth.

#MasonCountyNews  #CourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — A 26-year-old Onekama man was sentenced to concurrent terms of three to 20 years and 17 months to 10 years in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, June 21, for felonies of operating/maintaining a laboratory involving methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine. In exchange for Mitchel Jared Walkley’s pleas, one count of operating/maintaining a lab…

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