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Car chase beginning in Oceana Co. ends with crash in Mason Co.

October 7, 2024

By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief CUSTER TOWNSHIP — Three law enforcement agencies were involved in two-county high speed chase that resulted in a crash Monday afternoon. The official details have not yet been released. According to Mason County Sheriff’s Office deputies on scene, the chase involved a Manistee County man and started in northeastern Oceana County. Deputies from Oceana County Sheriff’s…

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Thieves drill holes in trucks’ gas tanks, causing fuel spill

October 7, 2024

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A thief or thieves drilled holes into the gas tanks of two pickup trucks parked at the carpool parking lot on M 20 near US 31, causing a fuel spill, said Oceana County Sheriff Craig Mast. “The fuel spilled out onto the pavement,” said Sheriff Mast, which required response from the Shelby-Benona Fire Department, Oceana County Emergency…

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Police news, published Oct. 7, 2024

October 7, 2024

  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 Oceana County: Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024: 2:18 a.m., (Oceana County Sheriff’s Office) a 43-year-old Muskegon woman was cited for third-offense driving while license revoked, South 166th Avenue near Wilke Road, Otto Township. 10:56 a.m., (Michigan…

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Sheriff’s office busy with drunk driving arrests

October 2, 2024

The following is recent activity of the Oceana County Sheriff’s Office: Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024: 11:30 a.m., a man allegedly harassed people fishing from a boat in Pentwater Lake in front of his house, Pentwater Township. The man yelled using profanities and backed his boat in and out from his dock to scare the fish away, according to the police…

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Teen airlifted following ATV crash at the dunes

September 30, 2024

GOLDEN TOWNSHIP — An 18-year-old Marshall, Michigan woman was airlifted following an ATV crash at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes Sunday afternoon, Sept. 29, according to an accident report from the Oceana County Sheriff’s Office. The woman was southbound on a blue 2017 Can Am Outlander when she “ascended a large hill — the hill behind Test Hill — at…

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