Category Archives: Drug Crimes

5 Facing Charges After Teen’s Death On New Year’s Eve, at a time when people around the world were gearing up to usher in the new year, a 16-year-old Watervliet HS student named Mason Mizwicki was dying of prescription methadone overdose. But now, in the wake of his death, five individuals are facing charges for […]

Bailing your friend out of jail could be chalked up as a “good deed”. Unwittingly handing a cop your cocaine, however, is not so good, and will likely land you in a world of trouble, as one Clinton Township man recently discovered when paying a police officer with what can only be called “dirty money.”

Ask any medical student in the middle of their residency about the strange things people insert into their various orifices, and you will be able to settle in for at least an hour’s worth of horrifying stories about hairbrushes, light bulbs, and flashlights. But as it turns out, medical students aren’t the only ones who […]

Detectives from the Narcotics Division of the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office received a tip recently that pointed them in the direction of a man named Troy Strouse. He was apparently purchasing items used in the production of methamphetamine. 

Jeremy Todd Rollins, the 37-year-old man from of White Pine who was arrested and held in Dayton, Ohio on felony charges pertaining to meth production, has officially withdrawn his guilty plea, and now all bets are off.

Everyone has been issued a wise word or two during their lifetime, and benefited from it.  Things like, “treat others the way you want to be treated”, “wash your hands after using the bathroom” and “never pick your nose in public” may be well used and seemingly worn out by now, but they are valuable […]

As is often the case, where one thing leads to another and the result isn’t quite what you expected, a domestic assault call turned into an outstanding warrants arrest and the discovery of a meth lab.

24-year-old Christopher J. Obermiller and his girlfriend, 23-year-old Tara L. Schupback have both been sentenced to serve jail time for smuggling heroin into the Bay County Jail. The pair accepted plea deals back in August, when Obermiller pleaded guilty to conspiracy to furnish contraband to a prisoner, which is a felony, and Schupback pleaded guilty […]

Dawn Marie Hahn, the 44-year-old mother who is currently facing multiple felony charges for the production and sale of methamphetamines, recently accepted a plea deal.  She will be testifying against her husband in return for the dismissal of certain felony charges.

DEA Makes Drug Classification Change Late last month, the Drug Enforcement Administration ruled that hydrocodone combination products will change from a Schedule 3 classification to Schedule 2. This will become effective on October 6, 2014. Commonly, these drugs are a mixture of acetaminophen and hydrocodone. Some examples include “Norco” and “Lortab” tablets. However, this applies […]