Teen charged in Sterling Heights fatal crash
The youth was arraigned Monday at 41A District Court in Sterling Heights on four charges:
• Felony murder, punishable by life without parole
• Second-degree murder, a felony punishable by up to life in prison
• Fleeing a police officer, first degree, a 15-year felony
• Second-degree fleeing a police officer, a 10-year felony
Prosecutors allege the teen, a Detroit resident who has not been identified, was speeding late Thursday in a Jeep Grand Cherokee believed to have been stolen from Jim Riehl’s Friendly Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram in Romeo.
At 15 Mile and Van Dyke in Sterling Heights, the Jeep sparked a three-car crash, the Macomb County Prosecutor s Office said.
Alberto LuperonFeb 8th, 2021, 6:36 pm
Indiana man
Salvatore “Sam” Anello was sentenced on Monday to three years of probation in the death of his 18-month-old granddaughter
Chloe Wiegand, according to
This closes the book on Anello’s criminal case, but not the lawsuit the toddler’s parents filed against the Royal Caribbean cruise line. The parents blame the company, claiming it failed to create a safe environment.
Wiegand’s death was a surreal nightmare. Anello reportedly put her on a railing by a window at a children’s play area on the 11th floor of a cruise ship. He thought there was glass, and he stood the girl against it. There was nothing there except air. Chloe fell to her death.
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Feb 09, 2021 04:44 AM EST
Almost two years after the incident on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the grandfather who was with his 18-month-old granddaughter when she fell to her death from an open window was sentenced Monday to three years of probation based on the Department of Justice of Puerto Rico.
The grandfather sentenced with probation was a resident of Valparaiso, Indiana, Salvatore Sam Anello, has pleaded guilty on the charge of negligent homicide in 2019 after he allegedly let his 18-month-old granddaughter Chloe Wiegand, fell through an 11-story window from the ship docked in San Juan, the Capital city of Puerto Rico in July of 2019.
Anello has maintained he placed little Chloe there to knock on the glass as she enjoyed doing at her brother s hockey games, and that he had no idea the window was open. Alan and Kimberly Wiegand, Chloe s parents, have launched a legal claim for negligence against Royal Caribbean arguing that an open window should not have been so close to a children s play area. On February 3, a judge ruled that the cruise line can be sued by the family for unlimited damages. Royal Caribbean has demonstrably lied to this court and, in so doing, Royal Caribbean has created a false narrative to accompany Royal Caribbean s carefully selected CCTV video upon which Royal Caribbean bases its motion to dismiss, a filing by the family read.
Salvatore Anello, right, of Valparaiso, Indiana, pleaded guilty in the case in October. Anello was aboard the ship in July 2019 when he dropped 18-month-old Chloe Wiegand, left, to her death.