ALPENA Brynn Bills’ easy access to drugs and people who sell them connected the Mio teen to violence and, possibly, the people who caused her death, Alpen
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Judge Ed Black presides over Alpena s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
ALPENA An Alpena County man who turned his life around once should have a chance to do it again, Judge Ed Black said in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
Though he planned to sentence Jason Obuchowski, of Ossineke, to two years in prison for multiple drug possession charges, Black told the court he was moved to keep the defendant in county jail after an impassioned plea by defense attorney Mike Lamble.
Convicted of crimes in the past, Obuchowski moved past assaultive behavior and addiction before falling into methamphetamine use and getting caught in possession of the drug in fall of 2020, Black said as he contemplated what sentence to impose.
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As defense attorney Alan Curtis listens to comments from the prosecution, defendant Scott Henning watches from the Alpena County Jail during a hearing in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
ALPENA Child pornography charges against a Hubbard Lake man should have been dropped because there was no direct link between him and the images on the computer on which the images were found, his attorney said in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
Judge Ed Black gave Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski two weeks to respond to a motion by defense attorney Alan Curtis alleging that Scott Henning, 29, should never have been sent to circuit court on child porn charges.
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A collage of mugshots provided by Michigan State Police and the Alpena County Jail shows, from left to right: Nikolas Niezgoda, Stehnes Yennior, Aaron Bissonette, Chad Kamen, Nathaniel Pratt, Devon Churchfield, and Joshua Carr.
ALPENA Seven Alpena-area drug arrests in two days highlight the problem of narcotics funneled into the Alpena area, according to a news release from the Huron Undercover Narcotics Team.
On Jan. 5, a car stopped by Alpena Police Department officers as it was leaving a suspected Alpena Township drug house netted three HUNT arrests. Nikolas Niezgoda, 35, Stehnes Yennior, 31, and Aaron Bissonette, 23, all of Alpena, were arrested for multiple drug charges including possession and delivery of fentanyl and conspiracy to deliver heroin and methamphetamine.