Michael Keith Feighner: Suspect’s profile states he’s a school bus driver in Rudyard
By Greg Peterson
Upper Peninsula Breaking News
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(Marquette, MI) – A former Michigan corrections officer, who lists U.P. school bus driver as his job in Chippewa County, has been arrested by the feds following a two country probe into sex crimes against children.
63-year-old Michael Keith Feighner of Rudyard, MI was indicted on two federal felony charges of attempted enticement of a minor and attempted travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
If convicted he could face up to 30 years in a federal prison plus massive fines and five years supervised release if he is alive. There is no parole in the federal system.
The retired CO lists his current job as Rudyard Area Schools, with his profile stating he started in 2013. Its not clear if he still works as a bus driver.
Mike Keith Feighner is married, a father of two grown sons, and and lists former Michigan addresses in Brimley, Grand Ledge, Niles and Kalamazoo – plus several Indiana cities. A 1975 Grand Ledge High School grad, Feighner studied criminal justice/corrections at Lansing Community College, according to his Facebook page.
Feighner is a former “Resident Unit Officer” at the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC).
His online profile states he worked for the MDOC for 23 years before retiring six years ago (1988 to 2011).
It’s not clear what prisons he worked at but apparently Kinross was one of those state prisons.
Michigan prisons are currently under a cloud of scandal for reasons that include coverups, corruption, spoiled food, brutality and inmate deaths that are not disclosed to the public.
Feighner allegedly has emails and an online alias going by the moniker “mikeydoodle52.”
Between September 28 and September 30, 2017 in Chippewa County, Feighner allegedly “used a means and facility of interstate and foreign commerce to attempt to knowingly persuade, induce, and entice an individual under the age of 18 years to engage in sexual activity,” according to the federal indictment.
The indictment states:
“Specifically, the defendant used the Internet to communicate with a person he believed to be a 13-year-old girl to attempt to persuade, induce, and entice her to engage in activity for which the defendant could be charged” under Michigan laws allegedly including “criminal sexual conduct third degree” and Canadian criminal laws of “sexual interference.”
He was charged with attempted travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct in connection with the same alleged incident.
The indictment states Feighner “did attempt to travel in foreign commerce, from the United States to the Dominion of Canada, for the purpose of engaging in any illicit sexual conduct” with “another person or persons under 18 years of age.”
The federal grand jury sitting in Marquette returned a forfeiture allegation stating the feds want to permanently seize related items allegedly used in the crimes.
The feds are attempting to seize any item “used or intended to be used to commit or to facilitate the commission of the offenses and any property, real or personal, constituting or derived from any proceeds that the defendant obtained, directly or indirectly.”
The items federal prosecutor – Asst. U.S. Attorney Paul D. Lockner – wants to take from Feighner include a Samsung Galaxy S6 cell phone containing a SIM card and a 3rd generation Kindle Fire.
U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Timothy P. Greeley has set trial for February 5, 2018 before federal Judge Robert J. Jonker. The motion deadline is in 9 days (Nov. 20, 2017) and the deadline for any possible plea agreement is January 15, 2018.
In an online statements explaining how he felt retiring from the MDOC, Feighner was candid about how much things had changed in the prison system including at the embattled Kinross Correctional Facility (KCF). He explains how working at Kinross helped destroy his health
“I don’t want to offend the people from KCF but it just wasn’t the same working there we really weren’t made welcome when we came there and had to struggle for a place to work,” Feighner wrote on Facebook in Jan. 2012.
“I guess the general thought was that we were going to take over their jobs, Hell we just wanted to keep working”
“I’ve been retired for 6 months now and still have a tough time going to Kinross for anything the stress, nerves and the not knowing if you’ll be going home at the end of your shift,” he writes.
“”I had a inmate on my floor that wanted to kill me for my last 6 months that I worked,” Feighner writes.
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