Jonathan Good Hides On Same Street As Sheriff's Department

 Big Rapids MI - On Wednesday November 26, 2008, Jonathan Joseph Good of Lansing who was staying in the Mecosta County Jail awaiting trial for over 30 felony counts that include attempted murder and armed robbery, broke out of his jail cell through a fiberglass skylight and jumped off the jail houses 10 foot high roof as jail attendants yelled stop! stop!, Jonathan Good kept on going wearing nothing but underwear, rubber shoes and a white tee-shirt.  Jonathan...

Escape Prisoner Jonathan Joseph Good Has Been Captured

 Mecosta County MI - Around 6:30 a.m. this morning a maroon 1997 Dodge Intrepid with a Ferris State University Employee license plate was stolon just north of Big Rapids.  Around 9:00 a.m., approximately the same time that the Mecosta County Sheriff deputies were investigating the stolon car there was a Jonathan Good sighting in the Clinton County Area.  The report described Good as wearing black pants, black athletic shoes, a dark coat with a red strip...

Good Gang Leader Escapes From Jail

 Mecosta County MI - On Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at around 10:20 p.m., thirty six year old Jonathan Joseph Good a convicted murderer who was in custody at the Mecosta County jail for 30 felony charges including kidnapping and attempted murder has escaped. According to Detective Sargent Casey Nemeth, Good was able to pry back a metal screen and escape through a skylight in the ceiling of his cell, entering the roof area of the jail, lowering himself to the parking lot area and...

Barryton Man Arrested For Stealing Storm Drains

 On Tuesday November 11, 2008, Mecosta County Sheriff Deputies arrested 21 year old Daniel Scott Sherburne at his home in the Village of Barryton.  Sherburne, who is currently on probation for a prior Breaking and Entering charge was arraigned in the 77th District Court and held on a $5000.00 cash bond for the theft of three metal storm drain basins that were reported stolon on M66 in the village of Barryton by the Mecosta County Road Commission.  According to Sargent Detective...

Kent County Man Runs Woman Over And Drives Off

 Kent County MI - On October 31, 2008, eighty two year old Marjori Hart was walking across 76th Ave. to get her mail when she was ran-over by 50 year old Larry Zehr while he was driving his 1977 Corvette west on 76th street.  Zehr did not stop at the scene of the...

Two Howard City Murder Suspects Arraigned

 Howard City MI - On Monday, October 6, 2008 around 7:30 a.m. the Kent County Sheriff's Department was called to the 14000 block of Beardslee NE in Oakfield Township.  According to Public Information Officer Kevin Kelley Deputies arrived on the scene and discovered the bodies...

Kent County Murder Suspect Arrested

 Alpine Township - On September 19, 2008, around 4:57 p.m. 25 year old Kris Mathews, was shot to death in his apartment after a brief struggle.  According to the Kent County Sheriff's Department, witnesses reported seeing three people fleeing Mathews York Creek apartment after the...

Man Who Walked Away From Sheriff Honor Camp Was Captured

 Kent County MI - On September 11, 2008, 19 year old Derek Allen Guyton, walked away from the Sheriff's Honor Camp on 16 mile Rd., in Spencer Township.  According to a press release from the Kent County Sheriff's Department, Guyton was serving a six month sentence for fleeing and eluding...

Senator Shepherd Pleads Guilty

 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - 39 year old State Senator Derrick Shepherd of Louisiana pled guilty on October 10, 2008 in U.S. District Court for one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.  Shepherd admitted laundering illegal funds for his co-defendant Gwendolyn Moyo, who excepted...

Man Beats Up 16 Year Old Girl At McDonalds For Her Spot In Line

 Los Angeles - Police search for a man who beat a teenage girl in the line at a South Los Angeles McDonald's on September 14, 2008.  According to a press release, it was around 10:15 a.m. when a man 35-40 years old came into the McDonald's with two young boys and took cuts in-front...

Michigan Man Charged For Molotov Cocktails

 A 23-year-old Michigan man was charged last week in federal court for illegally possessing Molotov cocktails.  He allegedly intended to use them at the Republican National Convention.  According to an FBI press release Matthew Bradley DePalma of Flint Michigan was charged...

Man That Exposed Himself At The Big Rapids Wal-Marts Pleads Guilty

 Big Rapids Township - Around 1:00 p.m. on  Saturday May 10, 2008 Mecosta County Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to the Big Rapids Wal-Mart where it was reported that a man walked up to a nine year old girl in the toy aisle and exposed himself.   The child's father...

Rodney Man Sentenced To 25 To 50 Years In Prison

 On Monday October 10, 2008 in Mecosta County's 49th Circuit Court in Big Rapids, Eugene Paul Cook of Rodney pleaded guilty to 2 charges of first degree criminal sexual conduct "person under 13", the charges stemmed from two separate case files where two...

Man Sentenced For Church Break In

 Thirty eight year old Brenton Louis Boudreau of Flushing was sentenced two 13 months to 10 years in prison for Breaking and Entering a church, "Chapel of the Lakes Lutheran Church" in the village of Mecosta. Boudreau received 150 days jail credit, and will pay fines in the amount of...