State representative acknowledges âdrinking problemâ after OWI arrest
State Rep. Bryan Posthumus (R-Cannon Twp.) was arrested Friday, April 30 on the suspicion of operating while intoxicated. He also knocked over a homeowner s mailbox in the single-vehicle crash. Videos
and last updated 2021-05-06 21:02:51-04
ADA TOWNSHIP, Mich. â Helen Grudzinskas didnât hear the crash that happened near her home on Friday, April 30. She was inside doing the dishes when she looked up to see papers flying around outside in the wind.
She remembered it was a sunny, yet windy day.
âI thought, I donât have anything in the garage. The garage door s not even open. But, I thought about my mailbox,â Grudzinskas said during an interview with FOX 17 on Thursday afternoon. âI thought I couldnât imagine how they wouldâve gotten out. I went out and went and caught some papers flying around.â
On Thursday, May 6, 2021, at 5:48 p.m. the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the Dover (DE) Police Department in reference to attempting to locate two fugitives who fled from police, according to Cecil County Sheriff Chief Deputy Gerald Widdoes. Both suspects were wanted in regards to a shooting incident and units were advised that the suspects were believed to be armed.
Units from the United States Marshal’s Service Task Force out of Dover attempted to arrest these individuals which resulted in the subjects fleeing in a vehicle driving down the sidewalk of a Dover business to avoid being pinned in by police. Units lost the suspect vehicle however it was spotted again a short while later and another pursuit ensued this time entering into Maryland where the suspects were able to evade police again.
Homicide of West Michigan’s Renee Pagel to be Featured on Dateline Friday
The 2006 murder of Renee Pagel, a 41-year-old mother of three, shook the West Michigan community. Pagel, who was recovering from surgery after donating a kidney to a father of one of her student s, was killed in her Rockford-area home.
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While police had a primary person of interest, they were unable to charge him due to his solid alibi, Wood TV 8 reports. The case eventually went cold. But friends and family never gave up: A social media page Justice for Renee Pagel and a website WhoKilledRenee.com were started in the years that followed her murder.
State Rep. Posthumus says he won t resign following drunk driving crash
Credit: Bryan Posthumus for State Representative
and last updated 2021-05-06 19:33:27-04
KENT COUNTY, Mich. â Freshman State Representative Bryan Posthumus told police he did not remember rolling his vehicle in a crash Friday night in Ada Township.
The 36-year-old admitted to driving drunk in a press release the next day.
Posthumus, a Republican representing East Grand Rapids along with the townships of Grand Rapids, Plainfield, Cannon, Courtland, Nelson, Oakfield, and Spencer, says his blood alcohol content level was .13%, well above the state s .08% legal limit.
FOX 17 filed a Freedom of Information Request for the report filed by the Kent County Sheriff s Office. The heavily redacted 7-page document reveal Posthumus was traveling on McCabe Avenue between 4 Mile and McCabe Court when he crashed around 6:15 p.m. The deputies noted the two-lane road is completely straight in that stretch, and the weath
May 4, 2021
Officials say one person was injured after an explosion at a mobile home north of Cedar Springs.
It happened at the White Creek Country Estates mobile home park around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday.
The Kent County Sheriff s Department has not yet released information on what caused the explosion.
No further details are known at this time.
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