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Police news, published Aug. 28, 2025

August 28, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  The following is recent police activity in Mason County: 6:21 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), car/deer crash, no injury, Custer Road south of Meisenheimer Road, Eden Township. 10:45 am, (Ludington Police Department), a 33-year-old Scottville man was arrested on a warrant issued by…

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Police news, published Aug. 27, 2025

August 27, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  The following is recent activity of the Mason County Sheriff’s Office: Monday, Aug. 25, 2025: 12:01 a.m., car/deer crash, no injury, Jebavy Drive south of Jagger Road, Hamlin Township. 5:04 a.m., one-vehicle crash, no injury, US 31 south of Scottville Road, Amber Township.…

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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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