On Jan. 13, 2020, the Michigan State Police (MSP) issued a “Statement on Temporarily Suspending Use of Datamaster DMT in Wake of Criminal Investigation into Contractor Malfeasance.” MSP’s statement asserted that: “On Jan. 10, 2020, the MSP alerted prosecutors and...
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Getting Tough On Grandma: Prosecutor drags on case against pepper-sprayed great-grandmother. By Anne Stanton It sounds like a send-up from a David Letterman show: Why did the deputy pepper-spray a 79-year-old great-grandmother? Yet it isn’t a joke to either Elaine...
Judge Approves Two Witnesses For Morales Defense
03/20/2014 By Meghan Morelli BENZIE CO. – The woman accused of killing her newborn baby in Benzie County last July was back in court Thursday afternoon. The attorney for Alyce Morales filed a motion asking the court to pay for two expert witnesses to testify in the...
Unfairly Targeted? Medical Marijuana Grower Says Charlevoix Deputies Went Too Far Destroying $100,000 Crop
By Anne Stanton In what an attorney called “vigilante justice,” a Charlevoix narcotics team destroyed an estimated $100,000 worth of medical marijuana plants before a jury could decide on whether they were growing in a legal enclosure. “I was treated like a common...
Legal Battles Create Ongoing Drama For Medical Marijuana Growers
By Anne Stanton Medical marijuana grower and Cecil Drost was able to drive off for a Florida vacation last week instead of going to jail, relieved that Charlevoix prosecutor John Jarema decided to drop all charges against him. But Drost anxiously wonders if he’ll be...