Feds use all tools to stop domestic violence on U.P. Native American lands – one of most recent attacks shows brutality and serious injuries suffered by two victims
EXCLUSIVE: FBI search warrants target DNA on clothing, bodily fluids, and document massive injuries to victims
At least two victims, two crime scenes discovered by feds as they use DNA search warrants to follow the blood trial
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(Watersmeet, MI) – FBI agents combed two crime scenes and on Tuesday gathered more DNA evidence in a pair brutal beatings involving different weapons that left two Lac Vieux Desert tribal members seriously injured and a third jailed.
Two crime scenes have been identified in the search warrants that seek evidence of the alleged violent crimes of 45-year-old David King Baldwin:
The victims identities – and any connection to the suspect – are being withheld by U.P. Breaking News and are identified only by initials in federal documents:
Apartment of the male victim A.J.J.:
E23905 Transfer Station Road, Unit 2, Watersmeet, MI
A second residence where female victim – J.P.B. – was allegedly assaulted and suspect restrained by occupants:
Daniel Green residence
Unit 25 Circle Drive
The DNA search warrants are the latest examples of federal prosecutors in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan take a no tolerance approach to domestic violence inside Native American nations or on treaty lands – rejecting outdated and false notions it is just part of the culture.
Across Michigan, federal prosecutors have been upholding the rights of female and male domestic violence victims as they throw violent offenders into prison.
U.P. Breaking News is the only U.P. media that has been reporting on these prosecutions – as the media all but ignores federal court – unless they get a federal news release.
Witnesses named in the court records include Jenny McGeshick
Law enforcement officers assisting in the probe are FBI Special Agent Mark W. Hoff of the Detroit Field Office stationed in Marquette, MI; LVD Tribal Police Officer Graser.
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Feds Native American DV Probe (2)
Feds Native American DV Probe (1)
David King Baldwin Assault Lac Vieux Desert Criminal Complaint (1)
David King Baldwin Assault Lac Vieux Desert Criminal Complaint (2)
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Baldwin is jailed on federal charges he seriously beat another man with a candle jar, fists and a kitchen chair in the victim’s apartment on Lac Vieux Desert treaty lands.
The feds are gathering evidence in what they call a probe into a “violent physical altercation.”
45-year-old David King Baldwin has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly brutally assaulting another man and is a suspect in the beating of the female victim.
In addition to the victim’s injuries, the FBI investigated the incident because it happened on treaty lands and the three people involved in the incident – two men and a women – are Native American, according to the federal complaint.
The victim – identified only as male with the initials A.J.J. – was assaulted “with a dangerous weapon” that investigators identified as a chair.
The victim was assaulted in his home in Watersmeet Township – shortly after a female – identified only as J.P.B. – dropped by his residence. Five minutes after the women arrived, the suspect – Baldwin – “banged on his (the victim’s) door.”
Federal prosecutors are deepening their probe into the incident as they requested at least two special search warrants that cover DNA evidence like bodily fluids, blood, and hair. Federal prosecutors have not stated the reason but it appears they are looking evidence to prove whether there was an additional victim or victims.
The search warrants were signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy P. Greeley.
The federal search warrant includes “items identified by witnesses” such as “improved weapons” allegedly used by Baldwin including “cellular telephoners, glass jars, knives, chairs, and club-like objects”
Damaged clothes and broken furniture were among the household items specified in the search warrant.
A.J.J. opened his door “and Baldwin struck him in the face,” the complaint states in explaining the victim’s account.
“A.J.J. tried to defend himself,” the complaint states, adding the suspect then attacked the victim with a candle jar “that had been atop the table.”
“Baldwin then hit A.J.J. on the side of the head with a glass candle jar,” the complaint states, adding the attack was not over.
“Baldwin next picked up a kitchen chair and hit A.J.J. with it,” the complaint states.
The victim was hit “upon his arms – as he tried to fend off the blows,” the FBI interview revealed.
The victim managed to escape and at 3:13 a.m. arrived at the Lac View Desert Tribal Police Department to report the assault. Two minutes later LVD officers respond to the scene.
Baldwin and J.P.B. were found “seemingly unconscious” laying in the yard “outside the apartment building,” the officers reported. Baldwin “had what appeared to be blood on the upper right portion of his shorts, as well as, his gray t-shirt and legs,” the complaint states.
Baldwin “woke up” and asked the officers several questions before being placed in handcuffs.
“What’s going on,” Baldwin asked.
Where am I,” he said.
The victim invited tribal officers into his apartment to show the evidence of the assault including the broken chair.
A.J.J. suffered numerous injuries including “a large lump on both of his forearms, a scratch on the left side of his neck, and a reddened cheek.” The victim was treated for arm injuries at the Ministry Eagle River Memorial Hospital, where medical records state he “suffered blunt trauma to the right forearm and had a deep tissue contusion.”
Citing a doctor’s addendum, the complaint states, “it was noted that the patient reportedly sustained the injury during an altercation with another person.”
“The patient stated the person was trying to hit him over the head with the folding chair and he defended himself with his hands/arms,” the doctor wrote in an addendum – the complaint states.
The attack occurred at the victim’s apartment on Fri., Aug. 12, 2016 at E23905 Transfer Station Rd, Unit 2 in Watersmeet, MI “in Indian Country” inside Gogebic County “on land held in trust by the United States for the use of the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians,” according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court at Marquette.
The charges are the result of an investigation by two FBI agents, Lac Vieux Desert Tribal Police and the LVD tribal prosecutor. The complaint was presented to a federal judge by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Mark Hoff, who investigated the assault.
The complaint alleges Baldwin committed the attack “with the intent to do bodily harm without just cause or excuse,” according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Western Division of Michigan
The felony criminal complaint was signed on Fri., Aug. 26 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy P. Greeley in Marquette, MI.
“This affidavit does not set forth all matters discovered during the course of this investigation,” Agent Hoff stated in the complaint.
Groups Fighting Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Against Native Women (and Men):
https://upperpeninsulabreakingnews.wordpress.com/category/woman-abuser/
https://upperpeninsulabreakingnews.wordpress.com/category/battery/
https://upperpeninsulabreakingnews.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/tribaldomesticviolencecrackdown/
Uniting Three Fires Against Violence
Michigan’s Native American Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition
(906) 253-9775
http://unitingthreefiresagainstviolence.org/lac-vieux-desert-band-of-lake-superior-chippewa-indians/
https://turtletalk.wordpress.com/indigenous-law-program/ilpc-artwork/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/vawa-native-americans_n_6819526.html
https://twitter.com/SaveWiyabi
http://save-wiyabi-project.tumblr.com/
Decolonizing the Anti-Violence Movement
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
Violence Against Women National Online Resource Center
Family and Youth Services Bureau –
http://vawnet.org/training-tools/summary.php?doc_id=4450&find_type=web_desc_TT
http://www.vawnet.org/assoc_Files_VAWnet/NIWRCHistoryDVAM.pdf
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California Bar Journal: Protecting Native American women from violence is an uphill battle by Diane Curtis/Staff Writer
http://www.calbarjournal.com/December2011/TopHeadlines/TH1.aspx
http://wakeupamericamybeautiful.blogspot.com/2012/10/native-americans-and-domestic-violence.html
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https://www.emaze.com/@AQROQRF/AMS-301
https://www.pinterest.com/kumaripaw/native-american-women-of-the-north-american-hemisp/
David King Baldwin
https://www.facebook.com/david.baldwin.31
First story on case:
http://upbreakingnews.com/DNACollectedLVDAssaultCase
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
Gete-gitigaaniwininiwag in the Anishinaabe language
Lac View Desert Tribal Police Department and Prosecutor’s Offices
LVD Tribal Police
(906) 358-4313
Captain Richard Burke
http://www.lvdtribal.com/offices.html
http://www.lvdtribal.com/history.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24719392.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_Vieux_Desert_Band_of_Lake_Superior_Chippewa
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http://dhhs.michigan.gov/OLMWEB/EX/NA/Public/TAM/305.pdf
2001 CDC and National Institute for Safety and Health Federal Report about health hazards at LVD Casino
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/2001-0109-2835.pdf
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI Special Agent Mark Hoff
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