May 4, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
Appeals have been denied in the murder case against two men charged in Livingston County for their roles in a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
Attorneys for Barry Cadden and Glenn Chin filed motions in January to reverse earlier rulings against their clients that they should stand trial on 11 counts of second degree murder.
Last week, Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Michael Gadola denied both in a one-sentence opinion that cited a failure to persuade the court of the need for immediate appellate review. Cadden was a part-owner and Chin was a supervising pharmacist at the New England Compounding Center.
May 4, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
A plea has been entered for a jailhouse assault by a Detroit man already serving time for armed robbery and fleeing from police in late 2019.
29-year-old Bryan James Busher was sentenced last month to serve a year in the Livingston County Jail for his plea to an armed robbery charge for an incident on Christmas Eve 2019 at the Genoa Township Walmart. Today Busher was back in 53rd District Court for a plea hearing on an assault and battery charge stemming from an encounter in the Livingston County Jail in March of 2020, where he had been incarcerated since his arrest. A deal was reached in which he will plead guilty to the charge in exchange for a 26 day sentence, which he can serve along with his current sentence. Formal sentencing was set for June 1st. Busher had faced prison time for the original incident in which authorities say he and another man had pushed out a shopping cart full of items without paying
Brighton man headed to trial on charges of rape, unlawful imprisonment
A Brighton man is headed to trial on charges of sexual assault after a Livingston County judge determined there was enough evidence to bind the case over.
Joseph Santana, 31, was arraigned on Feb. 28 on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count each of unlawful imprisonment, assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and resisting, obstructing police.
On Wednesday, Andrea Del Vecchio, a nurse, testified the reported victim had multiple injuries and duct tape residue on her body.
The victim told Del Vecchio that Santana said you want this, despite her telling him multiple times to stop during the assault, Del Vecchio testified.
Big Gretch is the homie : Rep. Jewell Jones refuses to take jail photo because he can t wear mask
By Amber Ainsworth
Rep. Jewell Jones tries to use Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to get out of trouble after arrest
Michigan Rep. Jewell Jones mentioned multiple times that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer would help him after he was arrested following a suspected drunken driving crash.
LIVINGSTON COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) - Video from inside the Livingston County Jail after Rep. Jewell Jones was arrested shows the lawmaker arguing with authorities and refusing to take an intake photo because he can t wear a mask.
He can be heard repeatedly asking to see the regulations that specify whether or not he needs to wear a mask when having his photo taken. When told that he can t wear a mask in the photo, he says that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said masks have to be worn.
State Rep. Jewell Jones won t appear before a judge for a preliminary examination for more than two months as his lawyer argues that Jones was mistreated by police during the April 6 incident that led to his arrest.
Jones, D-Inkster, will next appear before Livingston County District Judge Daniel Bain on June 30 for a hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence for him to face trial on several charges including drunken driving and resisting and obstructing police.
Jones lawyer Ali Hammoud told The Detroit News on Sunday that his client should have never been arrested by police because reports of his crash were incorrect and there was no proof that Jones was intoxicated.