Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Michigan Medical Marijuana: Qualifying Medical Conditions to Increase For the first time since receiving voter approval in 2008, the Michigan medical marijuana laws are expanding. To receive a medical marijuana card, a person must suffer certain medical conditions. The number of qualifying medical conditions is being increased under proposed amendments to the law. The Michigan […]

Sparta Construction Company Owner Facing Charges Joe Novak, president and owner of Black River Builders, LLC, in Sparta, MI, is facing MIOSHA violations felony charges in connection with the July 2012 death of one of his employees. On July 2, 2012, 38-year-old Brian Tarachanowicz, a subcontractor with Black River Builders, fell through a weak spot […]

Suspects in Murder of Anthony Kye Facing Life in Prison if Convicted On Friday of last week two Lansing teenagers, 19-year-old Jamon Hampton and 16-year-old Valentino Stewart were ordered to stand trial on murder charges. Ingham County Judge Patrick Cherry made the decision during the preliminary hearing in 54A District Court, and the case was […]

Defendant says he “blacked out”, and was not in his right mind 28-year-old Robert James Lewis of Ypsilanti Township was arraigned last week Thursday in the 14A-1 District Court in Ann Arbor, MI. In an unfortunate series of events, Lewis went from breaking into a house, to stealing and crashing a police car, all in […]

Meth Raid Finds Several “One-Pot” Meth Labs on Property Ten people were arrested in Kalamazoo, MI this past Wednesday, after police from several departments conducted a raid on a property located in the 3100 block of North Pitcher Street. Authorities say they received a tip that meth was being produced at the property and so […]

Prominent Okemos Business Man Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison Dennis Forsberg, a 59-year-old resident of Lansing, Michigan, and the owner of Forsberg Real Estate Co., was one of seven people recently sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a medical marijuana operation that was fully licensed and legal under Michigan […]

Hire Hitman? No…He Was Actually an Undercover Officer Diane Marie Hart, 45, from Ravenna, MI, and her older sister, Vicky Lynn Brill, 50, have both been sentenced to prison for attempting to hire a hitman to kill Hart’s husband. The hitman, as it turned out, was an undercover Michigan state police officer. He recorded the […]

Child Endangerment Charges Dropped Ebony Michelle Howard stood tearfully before the Judge Mark Trusock in the Kent County Circuit Court on Monday, April 22nd. “I’m guilty. I was drinking.” she admitted. She also stated that her plea was freely and voluntarily given. Howard has been charged with one count of operating while intoxicated -OWI causing […]

Trial Date Set for Four Defendants in Mob Beating Police have said that as many as 12 people participated in the mob beating of Steve Utash, early last month in Detroit, MI. Utash accidentally hit a 10-year-old boy with his car when the child stepped out in front of Utash’s moving vehicle. When he stopped […]

Embezzlement and Mismanagement of Parish Funds Alleged Rev. Edward Belczak, 69, of Troy and Janice Verschuren, 67, of Bloomfield Hills have been indicted on five counts of felony embezzlement for the alleged mismanagement of parish funds. The indictments include mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy involving missing parish funds from 2004 to 2012. Belczak was […]