Tagged: preliminary hearing

ESCANABA, MI--   A preliminary exam this week against a couple charged with torturing and abusing a teen boy in Escanaba will be reset. 

The boy's mother—Susan Bardo, 46—has waived her right to a hearing within 14 days.  A lawyer for Bardo’s boyfriend—Carl Pellinen, 47—says his hearing scheduled for Thursday wasn’t held, either.

Police in Escanaba say a 15-year-old boy was kept inside the home on North 20th Street for four years, rarely leaving a room made from tarps while being tortured and abused.  He was removed by officers on April 11.

MARQUETTE, MI--   A preliminary hearing has been set for a Marquette man accused of home invasion.  

Douglas Fitzpatrick, 26, was arrested last week for breaking into a home on the 500 block of West Washington Street.  Police say he was visiting the victim at his house January 14th when the victim said he and Fitzpatrick needed to leave.  When the victim returned he found someone had entered a window by climbing a breezeway and had stolen property. 

Police say Fitzpatrick had talked about the crime before it was committed.

MARQUETTE, MI--   A preliminary hearing is set for an Ishpeming man whom police searched for and found over the weekend.  

Todd Mills, 31, is charged with two counts of operating a meth lab.  City Police say he was released from prison last year after serving time for a violent offense. 

Police issued warrants for Mills’ arrest following a November investigation into a meth lab in Ishpeming.  Mills called the police department, saying he would commit suicide by cop and that he planned to hurt people. 

MARQUETTE, MI--   A preliminary hearing is set for a Marquette man accused of threatening a nurse with a knife.  

Robert Allen Wallace, 48, allegedly brandished the knife when the nurse spoke with him in the Marquette General Hospital emergency room waiting area Saturday night.  Officers from Northern Michigan University Public Safety responded to the scene and took the knife from Wallace without incident. 

Wallace is charged with felonious assault, punishable by up to four years in prison and a $2,000 fine.