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Circuit court sentencings include domestic violence, robbery, home invasion and drunk driving.

December 12, 2014
Circuit court sentencings include domestic violence, robbery, home invasion and drunk driving.

By Allison Scarbrough. Contributing Editor. LUDINGTON — The following were sentenced Tuesday, Dec. 9, in 51st Circuit Court: – Adam Wayne Nelson, 40, of 503 First St., Ludington, was found guilty by a jury, Nov. 20 of third-offense domestic violence and found guilty by the court of habitual offender, third offense. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in…

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79th District Court sentencings.

December 12, 2014
79th District Court sentencings.

By Allison Scarbrough. Contributing Editor. LUDINGTON — The following were sentenced recently in 79th District Court: – David Brian Richmond, Jr., 25, of 403 S. Madison St., Ludington, was found guilty Dec. 2 of operating while intoxicated. He was sentenced to one day in jail with credit for one day served; $1,060 in fines and costs; outpatient treatment; 93 days…

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Suspected Walmart shoplifters flee, 1 captured.

December 12, 2014
Suspected Walmart shoplifters flee, 1 captured.

PERE MARQUETTE TWP. — Stolen property valued at $1,546.98 was recovered in the woods and along the roadside near Walmart shortly after 3 a.m. Friday by Mason County Sheriff’s Office deputies after responding to a retail fraud involving “multiple subjects,” a sheriff’s report states. “Subjects fled on foot, and one subject was captured,” according to Sheriff Kim Cole. A 20-year-old Ludington…

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Tree falls on vehicle.

December 12, 2014
Tree falls on vehicle.

HAMLIN TWP. — Michigan State Police troopers from the Hart post responded to a report of a tree that fell on a vehicle at Dewey and Lincoln roads Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 2:30 p.m. MSP also responded to a two-car property damage accident Wednesday at 2:29 p.m. at US-10 and Jebavy Road. No injuries were reported. The MSP Report is brought…

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Man arrested after ‘huffing’ keyboard duster in Walmart; another man arrested with crack while being booked.

December 11, 2014
Man arrested after ‘huffing’ keyboard duster in Walmart; another man arrested with crack while being booked.

PERE MARQUETTE TWP. — Two suspects were arrested by the Mason County Sheriff’s Office in separate, bizarre incidents Wednesday, Dec. 10. The first arrest occurred at 11:40 a.m. in Walmart, in the 4800 block of W. US-10, after deputies responded to a report of a “person huffing” in the building. During a pat down of the 23-year-old subject (no city…

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