Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

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 […]

Heroin, Crack Cocaine and Prescription Pills Found in Car On Tuesday, April 22nd, a tip led police to seek out a drug transaction in Ann Arbor, MI. What transpired was far more extensive and unexpected. After a brief police chase, resulting in a car crash in the middle of a busy intersection, 3 people were […]

Michigan’s Medical Marihuana Act no defense in Federal court 37 people have been indicted as part of an alleged multi-county Michigan marijuana growing operation. Called ‘Medical Marijuana Team’, or MMT, it was led by a man named Shawn Taylor. Along with his wife Molly, Taylor owned a store in Muskegon called In Do Grow. The […]

Jury Deadlocked and Unable to Reach Verdict This is now the second time that a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the case of Austin Smith, charged with the New Year’s Day beating death of a Lansing man in 2012. Jurors deliberated for several days before announcing that they were completely deadlocked, resulting […]