Category Archives: Drug Crimes

Although the State of Michigan has laws allowing use of marijuana for medical purposes, the manufacture, possession, or distribution of other illicit narcotics is still prohibited. Such an example is seen in a recent case where Michigan police officers arrested a man during a search of his residence, suspecting he was running a drug house.

A Michigan woman was sentenced Thursday her second wave of cocaine-related charges, resulting in added jail time to the sentence she is currently serving. These cases are always disheartening, particuarly as many repeat offenders of non-violent drug crimes are also addicts that desperately need rehabiltiation, not incarceration.

After a fatal shootout in Detroit this week resulting in the death of a police officer and the injury of four others, a 25 year-old man will almost certainly face Michigan homicide charges for his involvement. Not only is Jason Gibson, also known as James Everet, suspected of this crime, but he has been convicted for numerous others in recent years, including drug possession, unlawful gun possession, and attempting to disarm an officer.

A Michigan City man is going to trial again after rejecting a prosecutor’s plea bargain offered in a drug distribution case. Although he was convicted in 2009 of fleeing police and criminal recklessness, jurors were unable to determine if he was also guilty of possessing drugs with the intent to sell. The defendant will try again to have his name cleared in a new trial set for October 18th, 2010.

After months of investigation, law enforcement officials discovered that five men accused of Michigan theft and drug charges actually had participated in additional criminal activity–an international crime ring focused on stealing people’s identities and distributing the credit card numbers to the higest bidder.

After a week-long investigation of possible meth activity in a Kalamazoo apartment complex, law enforcement officials have executed two search warrants and arrested two individuals for drug possesion. Once the report is completed, police officers intend on filing criminal charges of drug possession against the two already arrested, as well as four additional suspects.