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Donald Grooms, one of at least 11 people arrested on drug charges in Alpena County in January, appears in the 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
ALPENA Two jail inmates will have to wait to tie the knot after a request for a jailhouse wedding was turned down in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
Nikolas Niezgoda, an inmate of the Alpena County Jail since Jan. 5, requested through attorney Ron Bayot that he be allowed to marry female inmate Aaron Bissonette.
Niezgoda and Bissonette were arrested together Jan. 5 when Alpena Police Department officers stopped the car in which the two were riding as it left a suspected Alpena Township drug house.
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Attorneys listen as Judge Thomas LaCross, appearing via videoconference, reviews the details of a child pornography case against Scott Henning in Alpena’s 88th District Court today.
ALPENA Child pornography found on a home computer, without proof of who put it there, is enough evidence to continue a case toward trial, Judge Thomas LaCross decided today in Alpena’s 88th District Court.
Scott Henning, 29, was bound over to 26th Circuit Court on charges of possession of child sexually abusive material.
More than 100 child porn images, including six images of children younger than 10, were found on a computer seized when detectives from the Huron Undercover Narcotics Team raided a drug lab in the home where Henning was living, according to police.
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A Huron Undercover Narcotics Team detective holds 10 grams of methamphetamine. The drug was involved in at least 11 recent HUNT arrests, including one seizure of nearly 100 grams of the narcotic.
ALPENA Methamphetamines have become a strong presence in Northeast Michigan, law enforcement leaders said at a board meeting for the Huron Undercover Narcotics Team on Friday.
A spate of HUNT arrests at the beginning of the year point to the increase in trafficking of the drug into the area, 1st Lt. John Grimshaw told the board.
Grimshaw, commander of the Michigan State Police-Alpena Post and chairman of the HUNT board of directors, said five or six years ago methamphetamines didn’t have much of a presence in Alpena.
Jan. 11
12:47p.m.: A welfare check was requested; contact was made with the subject, everything was fine.
1:32 p.m.: While on routine patrol a MCSO deputy initiated a traffic stop in Albert Township, the driver was found to be driving on a suspended license. He was lodged.
4:42 p.m.: On a routine patrol, a deputy with MCSO initiated a traffic stop in Albert Township, the driver was found to be driving without insurance and on a suspended license. Subject was lodged.
7:45 p.m.: Hillman Fire & EMS responded to a one vehicle rollover on M-32 in Alpena County. No one was injured.
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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.