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78th District Court sentencings, dismissals – Oct. 2, 2019.

October 2, 2019

78th District Court sentencings, dismissals – Oct. 2, 2019. #OceanaCountyCrime By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. HART – The following were sentenced recently in 78th District Court: – Norman Leo Schultz, Jr., 61, of 316 S. Division St., Whitehall, was found guilty Aug. 12 of second-offense operating while intoxicated and was sentenced to one year suspended jail with credit for one day…

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US 31 rollover crashes top police activity.

October 2, 2019

US 31 rollover crashes top police activity. #OceanaCountyCrime SHELBY TOWNSHIP – Two separate vehicle rollover crashes occurred Tuesday, Oct. 1, on rain-slicked US 31 within the same vicinity, according to Michigan State Police trooper Kelsey Case. There were no injuries reported in the first crash, but it resulted in the arrest of a 45-year-old Grand Haven man wanted on a…

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Trees to double downtown.

October 1, 2019

Trees to double downtown. #Pentwater Story and photos contributed by Ron Beeber. PENTWATER – Pentwater’s Downtown Development Authority and a citizen group called PTW 2030 have teamed up to spearhead a project to upgrade and double the number of trees along both sides of several blocks of Hancock Street in the downtown business district. Last week, old trees – three…

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Shelby police officer charged with drunk driving, resisting arrest.

September 30, 2019

Shelby police officer charged with drunk driving, resisting arrest. By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. SHELBY – Shelby Police Officer Gabriel Gordon LeBlanc, 35, has been suspended without pay following his arrest in Muskegon County last month on charges of operating while intoxicated and resisting arrest. LeBlanc, who is a Whitehall resident, was arrested by the Muskegon County Sheriff’s Office, Aug. 29,…

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Driver passed out at gas pump faces OWI charge.

September 30, 2019

Driver passed out at gas pump faces OWI charge. #OceanaCountyCrime NEW ERA – A 20-year-old Shelby woman who told Oceana County sheriff’s deputies she had overdosed on drugs while she was being placed under arrest for operating while intoxicated Friday, Sept. 27, at 4:18 a.m. was found passed out in the driver’s seat of a vehicle by the gas pumps…

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