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Lambertville man pleads guilty to car wash break-in

July 21, 2015
Lambertville man pleads guilty to car wash break-in

By Allison Scarbrough. Contributing Editor. LUDINGTON — A 29-year-old Lambertville man is looking at serving 30 days up front of a one-year discretionary jail sentence after pleading guilty in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, July 21, to breaking and entering a coin-operated device for stealing quarters from a local car wash over a year ago. Troopers from the Hart post of…

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Shoplifting leads to jail time

July 21, 2015
Shoplifting leads to jail time

By Allison Scarbrough. Contributing Editor. LUDINGTON — A 33-year-old Ludington woman was sentenced to serve seven months up front of a one-year discretionary jail sentence in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, July 21, for a first-degree retail fraud conviction. Tonya Ann Johnson, who pleaded guilty to the charge last month, was arrested in April by the Mason County Sheriff’s Office after stealing…

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Custer man pleads guilty to meth lab charges

July 21, 2015
Custer man pleads guilty to meth lab charges

By Allison Scarbrough. Contributing Editor. LUDINGTON — A Custer man faces a minimum of eight years in prison in connection to a meth lab bust last January after pleading guilty in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, July 21, to felonies of operating/maintaining a lab involving firearm/other harmful device and manufacturing methamphetamine. In exchange to Russell Allen Wallager’s guilty pleas to the…

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Scottville police chief fires back at critical commissioner.

July 21, 2015

By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. SCOTTVILLE — Scottville Police Chief Don Riley fired back at Commissioner Ed Hahn’s recent criticism of Scottville Police Department during his report to the city commission Monday afternoon. At the July 6 meeting of the commission, Hahn supported a motion to disband the police department, which has an annual budget of around $150,000 and employs two…

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Larceny, vehicle break-in among police activity

July 21, 2015
Larceny, vehicle break-in among police activity

The police news is sponsored by Springstead Law Offices, with locations in Hart and Fremont, 231-873-4022 (Hart), www.springsteadlaw. AMBER TWP. — Mason County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a larceny from a building involving the theft of money from a business in the 3700 block of W. US-10-31 Monday, July 20, at 8:11 a.m. Deputies also responded to a breaking and…

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