Amalio faces charges after altercation with his girlfriend
Angelo Amalio, 44, will face charges of strangulation and domestic violence against his girlfriend after a Monday night incident in Coldwater.
View ArticleFOC files complaint against Kimble
Embattled Branch County Prosecutor Ralph Kimble is facing new accusations from Branch County Friend of the Court Lona Julien after an incident in her office on Sept. 28. She has referred the incident...
View ArticleCole headed back to prison
Parolee Randall Cole, 27, will have 13 months to two years added consecutive to his last sentence, after he tried to hide from Coldwater Police Department on Sept. 30, 2017.
View ArticleHarris violates new probation
Rodney Harris II, 20, avoided prison time, but will serve a year in the Branch County Jail for violating his last-chance probation for misuse of a credit card in February 2017.
View ArticleMcKenzie charged with a life felony
Jason McKenzie, 38, will face a life felony charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after his arrest Friday on a warrant that included charges of second-degree CSC.
View ArticleFerrell gets 7 years, 11 months minimum in Quincy school case
Jason Ferrell, 44, will serve a minimum of seven years, 11 months to 15 years in prison, after he pleaded no contest to two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
View ArticleFranks sent back to Indiana
Kristopher Franks, 31, of Columbia City, Indiana, dried out during his 116 days in the Branch County Jail.
View ArticleWalmart theft case headed to trial
HILLSDALE — A Coldwater man arrested in connection with a major theft from the Jonesville Walmart appeared in Hillsdale County District Court Wednesday afternoon for a preliminary examination...
View ArticleDavis to serve prison time for selling fake drugs
HILLSDALE — A Coldwater man who pleaded guilty to delivery of a counterfeit substance in May appeared in Hillsdale County Circuit Court Monday for sentencing.Joseph Alan Davis, 40, declined to make any...
View ArticleCaldwell pleads guilty to CSC third degree
COLDWATER — Tyler Caldwell, 21, will go to prison when he is sentenced Nov.19 after pleading guilty to criminal sexual conduct third degree with a 15-year-old he called "my girlfriend." Caldwell agreed...
View ArticleNo settlement; suit against Coldwater, police set for trial
GRAND RAPIDS — Mediation to settle the unlawful arrest, civil rights lawsuit by Tiffany McNeil against the City of Coldwater, Coldwater Police Department and officer Lewis Eastmead, plus other city...
View ArticleGonzalez prisoned
HILLSDALE — A Quincy woman arrested in early August on multifarious theft related charges in and around the city of Jonesville will serve prison time. Esmeralda Gonzalez, 33, was sentenced to serve...
View ArticleLie about crime sends woman to jail
COLDWATER — April Howard expected to leave Branch County Circuit Court Monday to go to work. Instead the 36-year-old Springfield resident went to jail for 30 days for filing a false police...
View ArticleTwo more defendants sent for mental exams
COLDWATER — Two defendants, Jamie Fuller, 49, and Romello Maxwell, 21, will be sent to the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry to determine if they were "criminally responsible" at the time of...
View ArticleFamily dispute has 2 facing felony home invasion
COLDWATER — A Fort Wayne, Indiana, couple; Kenneth Perryman, 52, and Jessica Prater, 37, are in jail charged with breaking into Prater’s sisters home and attacking two people with a shovel.According to...
View ArticleShop lifter faces life as habitual offender
COLDWATER — A history of shoplifting has Steve Jaquish, 60, facing life in prison as a habitual criminal.Friday morning loss prevention at the Coldwater Walmart recognized Jaquish from previous arrests...
View ArticleMacey sentenced for St. Patty's Day street fight
COLDWATER — Kyle Macey, 21, was sentenced to 18 months probation and a year in jail for his part in a March 17 street brawl in Coldwater’s Fourth Ward.Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady suspended...
View ArticleSiler enters not guilty plea
Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady accepted the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity from Sarah Siler, Monday.
View ArticleDiffendal avoids prison
COLDWATER — Rodney Diffendal, 37, will try to complete 18 months probation after finishing eight months jail for selling meth in March.A Coldwater Police informant set up a buy from Diffendal who went...
View ArticleByrd sentenced to 6 months for meth
COLDWATER — Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady realized Diana Byrd, 49, was "difficult to supervise on bond" so he decided against probation and sentenced her to six months jail after she pleaded...
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