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Attorney Bill Pfeifer represents his client, Joseph Marshall, in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
ALPENA Attorneys representing the City of Alpena and Alpena Township held a lengthy in-chambers conference with Judge Ed Black on Monday morning, the first time a local conflict over water costs returned to Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court after being rejected by the state Supreme Court.
Monday’s hearing marked the legal battle’s return to Alpena courts after the city and township were instructed to iron out their differences themselves by the higher court last month. The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the township, which was sued by the city in 2014 over the township’s refusal to pay a water rate increase.
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Thomas Guthrie, appearing virtually from a correctional facility in Muskegon Heights, listens to defense attorney Bill Pfeifer on Monday in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court.
ALPENA Two men accused of leading police on a high-speed chase in Alpena after furnishing fake prescriptions considered their options in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.
If Mickale Williams, 22, accepts a proffered plea deal, Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski will drop a drug delivery charge in exchange for Williams pleading guilty to possessing a fake prescription, fleeing police, resisting arrest, and failing to stop at the scene of a crash.
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John Gaddy waits to be sentenced at the Alpena County Courthouse on Tuesday.
ALPENA Saginaw man John Gaddy will spend more than two years in prison for threatening an Alpena woman with a gun.
During a January bench trial in which the judge takes the place of a jury Judge Ed Black found Gaddy guilty of the assault that stemmed from a fake drug deal.
According to witness testimony at the trial, Gaddy and another man, Duran Lowe, both of Saginaw, drove to Alpena in August and sold rock salt alleging it was methamphetamine to two Alpena women.