An off-duty Sturgis police officer is the subject of a criminal investigation as a result of a drunk driving accident he is accused of causing. The accident occurred just outside of the village of Climax in Kalamazoo County.
Apparently the officer arrived at a local bar on a Saturday evening, intent on celebrating his 29th birthday. Nothing is known of his time spent in the bar, but a surveillance video of the area shows patrons leaving the bar shortly before 2:30 am. Read more ›
While Benjamin Franklin is claimed to have said that wine is proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy, Shakespeare also points out that too much of a good thing isn’t good at all. Which is usually the case when it comes to alcohol, as someone drunk driving in Mason County recently learned. A 65-year-old man from the village of Free Soil has been arrested for operating while intoxicated. But unlike most drunk driving accidents where police show up at the scene of the collision to conduct the arrest, this drunk driver was arrested about a half a mile away from his car – which was underwater! Read more ›
There was consternation and confusion in Sanilac County recently, as prosecutors realized that they had not been given all of the necessary documentation in a drunk driving case against 29-year-old Michael A. Knoblock, the son of Huron County Circuit Judge M. Richard Knoblock.
According to police records, Knoblock was arrested on June 21st by Ubly Police Officer Alex Jobes for operating while intoxicated, speeding, and child endangerment. The subsequent police report shows that Knoblock’s BAC was recorded as being 0.21, which classifies as a superdrunk OWI under Michigan law. Read more ›
Jay Charles Hobbs, a 48-year-old man from Lowell, has been sentenced to prison for a fatal drunk driving accident that took place back in February, leaving five Lake Odessa children motherless.
According to the records of the Kent County Sheriff’s Department, 36-year-old Tonya Beha and another woman were pushing their out-of-gas Honda Odyssey van, which contained seven children at the time, over a bridge on Alden Nash Road SE when they were struck. Read more ›
When people hear “drunk driving” they tend to think in terms of cars, motorcycles, and sometimes semi-trucks. But as it turns out, the term applies to vehicles without wheels as well. Drivers of boats are also governed by laws and regulations that restrict their actions while on state waters.
Brandon Verfaille, a 32-year-old resident of Chesterfield Township, was recently arraigned in the St. Clair County District Court in Port Huron. He was charged with multiple felonies for operating a boat while intoxicated which resulted in a fatal boat crash this past summer. Read more ›
There is very little about a police officer’s job that can be called easy or convenient. But every once in a while an officer gets a slam dunk, like Deputy Robert Miersma, who arrested a drunk woman who drove herself all the way to the jail, thinking she was arriving at the bar.
According to information provided by the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office, the 39-year-old woman from Hastings apparently mistook the Van Buren County Jail in Paw Paw for a bar while she was hoping to pick up her boyfriend. Read more ›
