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The Alpena Police Department and fire department responded to a multi-vehicle crash near the intersection of Ripley Boulevard and Third Avenue on Wednesday. According to the fire department, two vehicles collided in the right-of-way, but there were no serious injuries. The crash caused traffic to be detoured down side streets until the scene was cleared.
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Police in Alpena responded to a crash involving a pair of pickups in downtown Alpena on Easter Sunday. One truck left the road and crashed into a lamp post, knocking it to the ground. Nobody was injured in the wreck.
ALPENA–The Alpena Police Department responded to a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of Chisholm St. and Third Ave. shortly after noon on Easter Sunday.
The man driving one of the two trucks involved said the other pickup ran a red light and they collided, causing him to veer off of the street and onto the sidewalk. The crash took out one of the city’s decorative lamps outside Myers Fashions, and debris was scattered in the roadway. Neither one of the occupants of the trucks were injured.
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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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ALPENA You don’t see police costumes on Halloween anymore, said Erik Smith, undersheriff at the Alpena County Sheriff’s Office.
Once a profession that drew stiff competition, police work has declined in popularity as a job choice, to the point that police departments are scrambling to get good candidates to fill job openings.
Where once only three or four job postings might be found on any given day, the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards website now lists pages of vacancies in police departments across the state.
The Alpena County Sheriff’s Office is currently feeling the pinch of tough-to-fill positions as it seeks to hire two deputies and two corrections officers.
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A bag of dog treats in the back of a police car comes in handy in handling an aggressive animal, according to Sgt. Mike Brooks, of the Montmorency County Sheriff’s Office.
ATLANTA A boring night means people are getting along, said Sgt. Mike Brooks, of the Montmorency County Sheriff’s Office.
Then again, when 10-hour shifts stretch along county roads and roll in slow loops through quiet towns, all that getting along can make a police officer restless.
“Sometimes, you’re praying for something to happen,” Brooks said. “Something to do.”