By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. GOLDEN TOWNSHIP — A 31-year-old Mears man armed with a fiberglass axe handle and a 12-inch butcher knife Sunday afternoon, April 10, was tased by police after asking officers to shoot him, according to Lt. Craig Mast of the Oceana County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s deputies were called at 4:26 p.m. to a residence in the…
By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. HART — A 24-year-old Shelby man was sentenced to 16 months to 15 years in prison Monday, April 11, in 27th Circuit Court, for a conviction of resisting/opposing/assaulting a police officer causing injury with a fourth-offense habitual offender designation after seriously injuring a Shelby police officer last fall. Brett Anthony Peoples pleaded “no contest” to…
NEW ERA — Michigan State Police troopers from the Hart post arrested four suspects for fraud Friday, April 8, at 3:05 p.m. in the 4000 block of First Street. Arrested were a 24-year-old Hart woman, an 18-year-old Muskegon woman, a 22-year-old Hart man and a 26-year-old Clarksville, Mich. man. No other details about the case were immediately available. In an…
By Kay Brennan, Hesperia Community Library Director. Most people have watched the “Wizard of Oz” movie and some may have read the book by Frank L. Baum. You might remember Judy Garland as Dorothy and her great pals: the Tin Man, Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion. They met the wizard, killed the Wicked Witch and with the help of Dorothy’s…
By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. GRANT TOWNSHIP — A 31-year-old New Era man accused of the attempted robbery of the Mitt Stop gas station in Shelby last January was arrested for operating with a high blood alcohol content (BAC); bond release violation; and driving while license suspended (DWLS) following a rollover crash on South Oceana Drive, April 3, at 6:15 a.m.…
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