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Thomas Guthrie, appearing virtually from a correctional facility in Muskegon Heights, listens to defense attorney Bill Pfeifer on Monday in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court.
ALPENA Two men accused of leading police on a high-speed chase in Alpena after furnishing fake prescriptions considered their options in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
If Mickale Williams, 22, accepts a proffered plea deal, Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski will drop a drug delivery charge in exchange for Williams pleading guilty to possessing a fake prescription, fleeing police, resisting arrest, and failing to stop at the scene of a crash.
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As defense attorney Alan Curtis listens to comments from the prosecution, defendant Scott Henning watches from the Alpena County Jail during a hearing in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
ALPENA Child pornography charges against a Hubbard Lake man should have been dropped because there was no direct link between him and the images on the computer on which the images were found, his attorney said in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
Judge Ed Black gave Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski two weeks to respond to a motion by defense attorney Alan Curtis alleging that Scott Henning, 29, should never have been sent to circuit court on child porn charges.
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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.