URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 2-9-18 – 6 p.m. ET – Update
Life in Prison/Rapist Kidnapper Will Die Prison: Confessed kidnapper, rapist and scumbag Eric Ruska was sentenced to life in prison today at federal court in Marquette, MI.
No parole, he will die in prison.
During a lengthy sentencing in Marquette, Ruska was hammered by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Jonker.
Life in prison til his death.
Life in prison for scumbag rapist and kidnapper Eric Ruska – he will die in prison
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Life in Prison/Rapist Kidnapper Will Die Prison: Confessed kidnapper, rapist and scumbag Eric Ruska
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Life in prison is the sentence this afternoon for admitted kidnapper and rapist Eric Scott Ruska: Plus its a big federal prison sentence for a child pornographer in Chippewa County – and a convicted felon will have time to think in federal prison about his idea to possess an altered handgun
Eric Scott Ruska
By Greg Peterson
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(Marquette, MI) – Confessed kidnapper, rapist and dirt-bag Eric Scott Ruska could go to prison for the rest of his life without parole – when he is sentenced today by a no-nonsense federal judge in Marquette, MI.
The 37-year-old Ruska is set to be sentenced this afternoon by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Jonker at federal court in Marquette.
For a week, Ruska kidnapped and raped a woman during the summer of 2017.
Prosecutors say sexual exploitation was the motive that was driving Ruska when he kidnapped a 28-year-old acquaintance. The July 8, 2017 kidnapping launched one of the biggest manhunts ever in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – as authorities did not know if the woman was dead or alive.
The brutalized victim – who was ratchet-strapped to a seat in Ruska’s pickup truck – was rescued on July 14, 2018 by a Michigan State Police tactical team at a Munising Shell Station.
Already a convicted rapist and kidnapper, Ruska invited his victim to go fishing in a boat on a Delta County lake. When she asked to go ashore along Chicago Lake, the kidnapping began and he threatened to kill her parents.
Ruska was convicted of the same type of kidnapping/sexual assault in 2004.
Ruska confessed to sexually assaulting the victim at spots in Alger, Delta and Marquette counties including in the Hiawatha National Forest.
2-8-18 Order in kidnaper Eric Scott Ruska
2-7-18 Supplemental notice in Eric Scott Ruska kidnapper
1-29-18 Corrected sentencing memorandum Eric Scott Ruska
1-28-18 Sentencing memo upward departure Eric Scott Ruska kidnapper
1-17-18 Supplemental notice Eric Scott Ruska kidnapper
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In another federal court sentencing, Judge Jonker sentenced a Chippewa County man to 10 years in prison on Thursday for possession of child pornography.
In May 2017, 30-year-old Justin Matthew Daley of Sault Ste. Marie, MI was indicted by a federal grand jury on four felonies – three counts of distributing child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
The crimes occurred in October 2014, and in January and March of 2015.
Under a plea agreement, Daley pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child porno and the other cases were dropped by federal prosecutors.
He was busted following a U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation during which when federal agents began communicating with Daley on a file sharing website.
Daley said he would share obscene videos of his “playful niece.”
He sent seven videos files involving prepubescent victims. Numerous videos and over 100 photos were seized on his computer including young kids involved in sexually sadistic and masochistic conduct.
2-8-18 Sentencing Justin Mathew Daley Soo Child Porno
5-17-17 Indictment Justin Mathew Daley Soo Child Porno
10-5-17 Plea Agreement Justin Mathew Daley Soo Child Porno
Also in federal court on Thursday:
An Upper Peninsula man was sentenced on Thurs., Feb. 8, 2018 for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
Michael Scott Sanders of Munising, MI was sentenced to two years in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Jonker.
One released from prison, Sanders will be on three years supervised release and must submit to random drug testing. The charge stems from an Oct. 2016 arrest in Alger County involving a 9mm semi-auto pistol.
A second charge, possession of a gun with obliterated serial number, was dismissed as part of a plea bargain.
8-15-17 Michael Scott Sanders gun indictment
For those following the ongoing Marquette federal heroin trial of Bam the alleged Gwinn drug man – here are the latest filings as trial continues
Bam the alleged drug man – Derrick Garrell Samuels a/k/a “Bam”
Derrick Garrell Samuels a/k/a “Bam” of Gwinn, MI
2-8-18 Bam the drug man govt. wants Amanda Jean Rush testify in heroin trial
2-8-18 Judge rules on testimony of Amanda Jean Rush in Bam Heroin trial
Upper Peninsula Breaking News by Greg Peterson 