About $72,000 will be spent for road projects in Freedom Township this year, and while the township will pick up about $44,900 of the costs, matching funds and the Washtenaw County Road Commission will pay the rest. For residents who live and drive on gravel roads, about $7,875 will be ...
A Warren man accused of setting off a pipe bomb outside a Freedom Township bar in 2009 has pleaded guilty to three of the felony counts against him. Nichlolas Casper Kraus, 21, pleaded guilty Friday to arson of a dwelling house, which carries a maximum possibility of 20 years in ...
A third suspect in the planned firebombing of a Freedom Township bar has entered into a plea agreement as court dates for the remaining co-defendants approach. Joshua McClellan, 24, pleaded guilty to arson of a dwelling, arson of real property, and placing an explosive near property causing damage, court records show.
The FBI is involved in the investigation into the "Ferris Organization" — an alleged drug trafficking and arson-for-hire ring whose members were charged in a Sept. 11, 2009 pipe bombing outside a Freedom Township bar, federal court documents say. Washtenaw County prosecutors charged six men in connection with the explosion ...
Washtenaw County prosecutors criminally charged the final two men suspected of being part of a gang of arsonists that firebombed a Freedom Township bar in 2009. William Ferris and James Prevost on Thursday waived their rights to have preliminary hearings within two weeks of their arraignment on nine felony counts, ...
Two Washtenaw County brothers were convicted Friday for their roles in a vengeful firebombing at a Freedom Township bar last year. But both Joshua and Joseph Hafner-Canter won’t face charges of conspiracy and attempted murder for the Sept. 11, 2009 attack at the Pleasant Lake Inn, according to separate but ...
A Freedom Township husband and wife who lied to police about a burglary to defraud their insurance company received one year of probation. Douglas and Wendy Beaumont were sentenced together to probation in Washtenaw County Circuit Court of falsifying a felony report with the Michigan State Police.
Two Warren men will now face trial with a pair of Washtenaw County brothers for allegedly setting off a pipe bomb outside a Freedom Township bar last fall. Joshua McClellan, 23, and Nicholas Kraus, 21, were both recently ordered to stand trial on arson, assault, and attempted murder charges following ...
Two brothers from Washtenaw County are headed to trial for allegedly firebombing a bar in Freedom Township last year. Joseph Allen Hafner-Canter, 20, and Joshua Hafner-Canter, 19, both waived their rights to a preliminary hearing during brief appearances in district court last week, records show.
Two additional men have been charged in a pipe bombing and arson at a Freedom Township bar in September, Washtenaw County court records show. Joshua Alan McClellan, 23, and Nicholas Casper Kraus, 21, both of Warren, are charged with two counts each of arson of a dwelling, arson of real ...
Two brothers are accused of detonating a pipe bomb outside a Freedom Township bar on Sept. 11 after another man set fire to a hallway in the basement to distract customers, Michigan State Police said. No one was injured in the fire and explosion at the Pleasant Lake Inn, but ...
A Freedom Township couple whose house was burglarized in April is accused of providing state troopers an exaggerated list of what was stolen to make an inflated insurance claim - then later admitting it because they felt bad for lying, police said. Douglas Allen Beaumont, 51, and Wendy Kay Beaumont, ...
More than a month after it was closed due to severe flooding, Lima Center Road in Freedom Township has reopened to traffic, the Washtenaw County Road Commission announced today.
About 1,000 one-dollar bills were stolen Monday morning from the Pleasant Lake Inn bar in Freedom Township, a Michigan State Police news release said.
The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department is warning residents in the southwestern part of the county to be on the lookout for suspicious activity following one break-in and one attempted break-in Monday.
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