12:00 PM Oct 3, 2011
Police/Fire

Fishermen make it to shore after boat swamps

Two Grand Rapids-area men were taken to the hospital and treated for hypothermia after their fishing boat swamped in Lake Macatawa and they had to swim to shore, said Sgt. Keith Garvelink of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department. Terrance Mullenix, 39, of Wyoming; and Brett James, 32, of Grand Rapids, went fishing in a 16-foot fiberglass boat about 5 p.m. Friday, Garvelink said. The boat started taking on water when the men were about 200 yards south of the Anchorage Marina on the north side of the lake.
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11:08 AM Oct 3, 2011
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GR-area woman, 18, killed in Vermont drunk-driver crash

A car loaded with eight Norwich University students lost control and crashed after an off-campus party early Sunday, killing a freshman and leaving three others with critical injuries, police said. The 22-year-old behind the wheel is charged with drunken driving resulting in a fatality. Renee Robbins, 18, of Kentwood, Mich., died in the crash just after 1 a.m., Northfield police said. Seven people in the car required hospital treatment.
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10:51 AM Oct 3, 2011
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Jenison man crashes small car into parked truck

A Jenison man was seriously injured after crashing his car into a parked truck early Saturday morning, according to Sgt. Keith Garvelink of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department. Elijah Robert Bouwens, 26, was driving west on Baldwin near Mill Street when his Mini-Cooper crossed the turn lanes and two eastbound lanes of traffic, before leaving the road and hitting a Freightliner semitrailer truck parked on private property. Bouwens was taken by ambulance to St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Rapids.
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Oct 1, 2011 (All day)
Police/Fire

GHT gun club range closed following shooting incident

The range at a local gun club is closed while police investigate a report of a shooting victim in a nearby subdivision. Officials from the North Ottawa Rod & Gun Club, 13084 160th Ave., released a statement Friday afternoon saying their shooting range was closed "until further notice' pending the investigation. No further comment would be given at this time, the statement said.
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2:01 PM Sep 30, 2011
Police/Fire

$16K still missing from GR bank holdup

Police recovered about $59,000 stolen from a Grand Rapids-area bank and tossed from the window of a getaway rental truck this week. An additional $16,000 - snatched up by passers-by before officers could collect it - could not be found, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Grand Rapids. Adam Jones and his wife, Tammy Jo Jones, were named as suspects in the complaint. They were reported to have been arraigned Thursday in Kent County Circuit Court.
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11:41 AM Sep 30, 2011
Police/Fire

Police: Drunk driver fished out of Grand River

Police in Grand Rapids said a suspected drunken driver jumped into the Grand River to avoid capture and was fished out after about 45 minutes early today. Police said the man collided with an off-duty officer's cruiser, then ran away and jumped into the water near the fish ladder at the Sixth Street Dam. He got soaked while staying on the fish ladder, and was eventually pulled to safety by rescuers.
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10:48 AM Sep 30, 2011
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2 passengers killed when SUV crashes into house

Two people are dead after the driver of an sport utility vehicle hydro-planed and crashed the vehicle into a house south of Holland on Thursday night. It happened around 6:30 p.m. on 146th Avenue in Fillmore Township of Allegan County. The crash did extensive damage to the house, police said. The homeowners said they were away celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary when the crash happened.
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10:43 AM Sep 30, 2011
Police/Fire

Man charged in death of Battle Creek girl, 3

A 25-year-old Battle Creek man has been charged with murder in this summer's death of a 3-year-old girl who was in his care. The Battle Creek Enquirer reported police were looking for Leo Ackley. He's charged with open murder and first-degree child abuse in the death of Baylee Stenman. Baylee died Aug. 1 at a hospital in Kalamazoo after being found unresponsive July 28. Charges were announced this week by Calhoun County prosecutors after autopsy results showed the child died from head trauma.
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10:24 AM Sep 30, 2011
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Man shot in GHT by stray bullet from gun club

Detectives said a Grand Haven man was hit in the arm by an errant shot fired Thursday morning by a member of Grand Valley State University's public safety department, practicing a half-mile away at a Grand Haven Township gun range. Ottawa County deputies said the 30-year-old man went to North Ottawa Community Hospital for treatment of the gunshot wound. He told investigators he had been working on a home on Acacia Street when he was shot. Police said they found a house on Acacia had also been hit by a stray shot.
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8:00 PM Sep 29, 2011
Police/Fire

Authorities: $60,000 missing from nonprofit club

Authorities said about $60,000 is missing from a nonprofit club in the northwestern Lower Peninsula. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported today that members of the Interlochen Eagles recently handed over financial records to Benzie County investigators. Sheriff Rory Heckman said he plans to ask prosecutors to charge a former club employee with embezzlement. Heckman said the case will be presented to prosecutors in the near future.
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11:22 AM Sep 29, 2011
Police/Fire

Holland woman drives pickup truck into food store

A Holland woman was injured after she drove her pickup truck into a building Wednesday afternoon, said Sgt. Jon Wolffis of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department. Peggy McBride, 66, was taken by ambulance to Holland Hospital after the 12:19 p.m. accident, Wolffis said. She was listed in fair condition today at the hospital.
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10:55 AM Sep 29, 2011
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Two arrested after break-in at Holland apartments

Police arrested a man and a teenage male Tuesday at a Holland apartment complex. Shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday, a resident in the MeadowLane Townhouse complex told police he saw two individuals carrying items out of a neighbor's residence. The resident said he yelled at the suspects, who then took off running. A maintenance man in the complex said the suspects, who were wearing masks, ran through the complex. The maintenance man gave chase, police said, but the suspects attempted to elude him.
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10:49 AM Sep 29, 2011
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Stun gun used in arrest of man who died in jail

Police said a 36-year-old New Jersey man who was found dead in a mid-Michigan jail cell over the weekend had been subdued by officers using a stun gun during his arrest. Michigan State Police told the Morning Sun a stun gun was used Saturday on Bradford Gibson of East Orange by officers trying to get him to leave a bar in Mount Pleasant. An autopsy was conducted and investigators were awaiting a report about cause of death.
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10:42 AM Sep 29, 2011
Police/Fire

Police remove 60 from bus during search

Authorities removed about 60 young people from a Portage school district school bus as they searched for weapons this morning. Police reported that nothing was found during the search. Sgt. James Myers said Portage police were told a student on the bus yelled at a parent whose daughter had just boarded the bus suggesting someone might "return with real guns.' On Wednesday, teens are suspected of shooting pellet guns at area homes. The woman reported the comment to the bus driver, who reported it to the bus garage. Police were called.
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9:40 AM Sep 29, 2011
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Cash tossed from rental truck after Kent County bank robbery

An unknown amount of cash taken during a Kent County bank robbery on Wednesday was tossed from a rental truck being pursued by police. Some of the money was recovered Wednesday by officers and passers-by, but some people are believed to have kept part of the cash, a witness said.
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12:00 PM Sep 28, 2011
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Charges stand in Grand Rapids medical pot case

Prosecutors in Grand Rapids can pursue drug charges against a man who is permitted to grow medical marijuana but was caught with too many plants. The Michigan Appeals Court said the 88 plants seized by police a year ago were too many for Ryan Bylsma. The court today agreed with a Kent County judge who has refused to dismiss the case. Bylsma is a registered caregiver for two people, which means he can grow 24 plants. But the apartment he controlled in Grand Rapids had dozens more.
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11:02 AM Sep 28, 2011
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Pilot, passenger in Alpena-area helicopter crash identified

Authorities on Tuesday identified two Macomb County men killed in a private helicopter crash in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. Dan Logghe, 46, of Richmond was piloting the helicopter when it went down Friday in Caledonia Township, about 85 miles north of Bay City, said state police in Alpena. His passenger was Mark May, 34, of Sterling Heights. A hunter found the wreckage Monday morning on his property in a remote part of Alcona County. Relatives told police that Logghe was headed to a hunting cabin near Alpena, about 15 miles from the crash site.
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