Mark Shemwell is from Hillsdale. Courtesy | Facebook Jonesville police arrested a Hillsdale man after an anti-trafficking group confronted him in a sex predator sting. The Jonesville Police Department arrested Mark Shemwell, 45, on Tuesday evening, according to Jonesville Police Chief Mike Lance. Shemwell faces charges of solicitation of a minor for immoral purposes and...
Leandro Pereyra. Courtesy | JailTracker The suspect in an alleged Easter weekend sexual assault will likely face a preliminary examination next week. 35-year-old Litchfield man Leandro Pereyra is set to face the hearing on May 3 at 2:30 p.m., according to the district court docket. The judge will evaluate the charges against Pereyra, determining whether...
A pipe bomb, like the ones police discovered during the arrest of a fugitive in Cambria on Jan. 10. The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office and Michigan State Police discovered two pipe bombs in a Cambria residence after arresting fugitive Michael Lyon on Jan. 10. “The 35-year-old suspect barricaded himself in the home initially but eventually...
A motion hearing in the case of Dylan Lee Jones, accused of a fatal August hit-and-run, was delayed until Jan. 27 after Circuit Court Judge Sara Lisznyai rescheduled the hearing. Kimm Burger, defense attorney for the 24-year-old Jones, said the motion hearing was supposed to decide whether a witness would be allowed to testify in...
Seven months after setting fire to Briner Oil in Jonesville, convicted arsonist Douglas Michael Jones, 50, was sentenced to nine months in prison and three months probation Monday. Jones, a former employee of the oil and fuel distribution company, set fire to the building in Sep. 2020. Local police confronted Jones soon after identifying him...