Fatal shooting investigated in Gogebic County – Investigators on scene – but possible self-inflicted means yet another U.P. resident takes their life in despair – happening almost daily – Does anyone care?

U.P. Breaking News Bulletin: – 4-14-18 Update:

The shooting was reported at 4455 Nylund Road – located between Junet Road and Olson Road.
A neighbor found the victim.
However two immediate neighbors were mentioned by police – obviously shocked and sad. We are withholding all names of the neighbors and apparent victim at this point.

Officials in Gogebic County have not released anything about the shooting.

This apparent suicide underlines the need for better mental health services in the U.P. as we are experiencing about one suicide – and many attempts – almost every day in the U.P. especially among youth including at NMU in Marquette.

Its a tragedy that Lansing cares nothing about as they have slashed and slashed U.P mental health budgets – and mix it with poverty, despair, and one-sided court/cops system and we get suicides.

Plus the youth perceive there is nothing for them with only – low pay paycheck to paycheck and day-to-day living left by the older generations a gift to millennials.
We were hoping they forgive us.

Its has also left an older U.P. generation in despair and with little control of their once good iives – and add in the usual substance issues and its a major crisis that is U.P.-wide.

Like their secretive cop brothers in Ontonagon County and Luce County and more – just love duping the news media and keeping secrets

Its also brings up the coveted, secretive information that very rarely emerges from secret-secret Gogebic County- unless via a weak news release with omissions galore.

Police officials in Gogebic County and Ironwood DPS – have never been known for their candid response to the media – especially if they feel/perceive it embarrasses their controlled area of the U.P.

In fact, U.P. Breaking News has exposed several recent situations in Gogebic County that were false by omission. Keeping their secrets from you like the tragic fatal ice incident when a heavy machine broke thru ice and fell under a barge with a crane. Total cover-up .
It took them three weeks to admit there were two fires – an hour apart – in that triple fatal apartment fire in Ironwood. We reported both fires that tragic morning

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4-13-18 – 2:10 p.m. ET 1:10 p.m. CT

Gogebic County officials investigating man found shot to death in his home

Sadly, its beginning to look like the almost daily Suicide Crisis in the U.P., takes another victim

By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433

(Ironwood, MI) – Investigators are on the scene of a fatal shooting in Gogebic County.
A neighbor reported finding the victim with a gunshot wound to the head.

The shooting is in Ironwood, MI area – however we are withholding all roads connected to this tragic incident. U.P. Breaking News will not release locations until much later this evening.
The shooting was reported about 12:40 p.m. Central Time.

So far, we have not heard any indication that foul play is suspected.

However, it maybe the latest in a series of shootings, hangings and overdoses that are happening almost daily this winter in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

The mental health organizations have their own crisis – ridiculously low funding and no follow-up care for those with depression. NMU has suffered their own suicides in past month.

When will enough people die in the U.P. before Lansing gets a clue.

Out U.P. legislative delegation suffered their own suicide incident – and yet nothing is done.
We stress this death remains under investigation – but have not heard MSP crime lab called

Lots of U.P. News headlines – One heckuva a weekend in the Upper Peninsula – Four U.P. snowmobilers crashes with injuries, Chocolay Township depressed 13-year-old drinks bleach, U.P. newborn with possible meningitis, aerosol can explodes in Delta County man’s face, some unusual arrests including federal suspect struggles with cops, man lies to the cops – and gets charged with it – and more

URGENT URGENT U.P. Breaking News Bulletin and Headlines – 3-12-18 – 3:45 a.m. ET 

Weekend U.P. Headlines – Boy drinks bleach, newborn possible meningitis, numerous drunk drivers busted with very high blood alcohol levels, Delta County man gets facial injuries when an aerosol can explodes in trash he is burning (then accuses female partner), federal suspect charged with wrestling with cops and sometimes if you lie – that’s exactly what cops charge you with (They’ve heard it all)

By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433

(Upper Peninsula of Michigan) – Police and fire officials across the U.P. Were kept busy this weekend including a suicidal teen who drank bleach, a man who was injured and then angry when a pressured can exploded while he was burning trash.

There were at least four snowmobile accidents with injuries on Saturday, March 10, 2018 including three in Chippewa County and one in Keweenaw County.
The Keweenaw County accident on Brockway Mountain – and two of those in Chippewa County involved snowmobilers driving fast and crashing into trees in corners – and absolutely destroying their snowmobiles.
In fact, its amazing someone survived the Brockway wreck – because the sled was smashed.
No serious injuries but four sledders were hurt.

The other Chippewa County crash was a sledder crossing the ice on the St. Mary’s River in Detour Village off the coast from Spring Bay Road and S. River Street area. The man was traveling at a high rate of speed and flipped the snowmobile.
He was “up and walking” shortly after the crash.
U.P. Breaking News has now confirmed that there have been at least 9 snowmobile fatalities and three critical injuries in the past 11 weeks.

Yet the state refuses to put up big, big signs warning about curves and demanding the sledders slow down. (U.P. Trails are deadlier than the highways).

Speeding over 100 MPH on today’s snowmobiles is suicide – and there is no way to fix it without behavioral changes – so anyone who has a loved one on a snowmobile should give them hell about slowing down – big time hell.

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In Delta County Sunday afternoon, March 11, 2018, paramedics and others were called to a report that a man was cut all over his face, bleeding and in pain.

It appears an aerosol type can was in trash that the victim was burning – and it “exploded all over his face.”

The man also was sick to his stomach and had shooting pains through his thighs.

The dispatcher then warned officers the man was mad at his female partner, accusing her of putting the can in the trash to be burned.

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Meanwhile near tragedy in Marquette County on Saturday night, March 10, 2018 at the Teaching Family Homes facility for youth that have been horribly abused or severely neglected – and the major affects that causes on a young person.
A 13-year-old boy “drank bleach” in a suicide attempt. He was on the edge of the property with two other youths. An ambulance and police were sent – and the boy apparently was not seriously injured after allegedly taking “a few gulps of bleach.” So Sad.

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In Marquette County, a federal prisoner was taken into custody – and even charged with attempting to obstructing/resisting arrest with law enforcement officers.
He is 28-year-old Walter Noe Aguilera-Aguilar (address unconfirmed).
Aguilera-Aguilar is being held on a no bond federal detainer and has a $5,000 bond set for attempted resisting arrest/obstructing a police officer.
Aguilera-Aguilar was booked into the Marquette County Jail at two minutes before midnight on Saturday, March 10, 2018.
The details are not known.

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Meanwhile – another man was busted Sunday afternoon for lying to the cops.
18-year-old Christopher Michael Hughes of Marquette, MI was booked into the Marquette County Jail at 1:49 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 11, 2018.
Hughes remains jailed this morning (Monday) on a charge of “lying to a peace officer.”
The details are not known.

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At least five people were busted this weekend in Marquette County and another five in Delta County for drunken driving – one suspect in Marquette had a blood alcohol level of .076 and another was charged under the “no tolerance” law – plus one woman allegedly was driving drunk with a kid in the car. U.P. Breaking News generally only reports names on felony drunken driving – although it varies by case – including when suspects resist arrest.

Non-scientific estimate by UPBN based on pullovers by police – 25 percent of U.P. drivers are illegal.

It appears at least one in four (25 percent) of Yooper drivers are either suspended, no insurance, or drunk driving with multiple arrests. That’s scary.

Generally though, we have heard some U.P. police running tags of older vehicles – while still rolling – before an official stop because its the poorer drivers who are most likely to be rolling illegal for something.

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And finally on Sunday, heard about a 13-day old baby rushed from Munising Memorial Hospital the U.P. Health System Marquette to be treated for possible meningitis. Again, how terrible and gut-wrenchingly sad. Hopefully the docs are the Marquette hospital will work their magic. Prayers.

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Editors note: If you did not see it – check out our FB advisory from Sunday on the downstate woman wanted by USCG Sector Soo for taking photos of the Soo Locks from an apparently restricted area. No word on whether the coasties had a chance to have a conversation with the woman. Plus see our report on the truck through the ice on Little Bay de Noc on Sunday.

 

Marquette Hotel Stabbing/Cutting; U.P. Hangings: U.P. Mental Health Cuts Spilling Into Public – Treat ’em and Street ’em with Pills

Saturday night stabbing/cutting reported at Ramada Inn in Marquette, MI; U.P. suicides and suicide attempts continue this morning

Editor’s note to Marquette Police and Fire Department – U.P. Breaking news has always enjoyed a good relationship and cooperated with you folks, but still our email has not been added to your press releases. Please do so if you have the time – smile. (including anything about the Ramada Inn cuttings)

For decades this reporter and U.P. Breaking News did not believe in publicizing suicides. A total blackout. However, that old-fashioned approach by the media is not working – and actually helps hide the true depth of the problem.

By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433

(Marquette, MI) – Marquette police, firefighters and paramedics were called late Saturday night to a reported self-inflicted female stabbing victim and a second male victim with cuts at the Ramada Inn located at 412 W. Washington Street in Marquette, MI.

However, little is known officially about the incident. Meanwhile, for at least the second time in a few days – a hanging was reported early today to police in the U.P. and this one involving a Delta County boy. 

“A 23-year-old female stabbed herself in the stomach,” a dispatcher told police and emergency personnel responding to the scene.

The victim allegedly stabbed herself “below the ribs on the right side,” the 911 dispatcher told emergency responders. “The female (victim) is disorderly in the (hotel) room … She doesn’t have the knife in her hands.”

Paramedics were told about a second victim : “There is a male with a laceration on his arm.” Police were on the scene for over an hour and a half – and then went to the U.P. Health System – Marquette hospital early today to continue their investigation. No word on the names or conditions of those involved. However, the injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

Firefighters and paramedics were briefly staged in the lobby while police secured the scene. Te dispatcher said 911 “were waiting word” from police on allowing emergency crews to enter the room to ensure “good status before you go in.” The room was quickly secured by police.

There is also no word on whether the case will end up with any criminal charges.

If the stabbing at the Ramada Inn was self-inflicted – it would become the second stabbing this winter to have associated mental health issues. A homeless man was arrested in Marquette in Nov. 2016 for a stabbing behind the Marquette warming center.

https://upbreakingnews.com/2016/11/17/marquettescissorsstabbing

Marquette Police, Marquette firefighters and paramedics from U.P. Health System – Marquette were all called room 117 at the Ramada Inn just 11 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 28, 2017.

Meanwhile in Escanaba, MI early today, Sun., Jan. 29, 2017 word of a hanging involving a youth whose “mother cut him down” after discovering the young male in the basement. His age and condition is not known. The ictim was rushed to St. Francis Hospital.
U.P. Breaking News is withholding the address of this tragedy – as the family is suffering unimaginable pain –  as we did two days ago in the Copper Country. This comes about 48 hours after a reported hanging of a adult man in a Houghton County Barn.

This week alone, there were numerous incidents or raging children – and of defiant school children – in Escanaba and across the U.P. Folks this is real stuff. It is happening. Hopefully one day the U.P. media will do more to expose these and other issues.

An ongoing one-year investigation by U.P. Breaking News investigation into the mental health crisis in the U.P. has turned up many alarming facts – in addition to the shocking rise in suicides and attempted suicides – and a meth and prescription drug epidemic.

For example, ironically some the addiction problem is caused by the ‘treat ’em and street ’em” state and federal pill policies. Numerous military veterans have told U.P. Breaking News that the V.A. Hospital in Iron Mountain hands out pills because its the cheapest way to treat and street vets.

Meanwhile even drugs prescribed to help treat U.P. drug abusers in their teens to their 60s have found there way back onto the street to be abused – like the Box Heads of thew U.P. – all addicted to Suboxone – originally designed to treat opiate abuse. The crisis is so bad even those in mental health can not agree on how to reign in the problems and start fixing the issues. Some are long-timers just hoping to get a retirement and pension.

Bloody Budget Cuts – The Budget Axing of Poor People With Real Needs

U.P. Breaking News has traced state budget cuts and mismanagement of the Snyder Administration to deaths and other issues stretching from the corrections and understaffed prisons, to mental health to an overload in the court system.There state budget cuts have left experts with few tools other than medication on both the local and federal levels.

The cuts have also led to an environmental crisis in the U.P. and downstate. One example – other than the Flint water crisis – is the destruction and decimation of the deer population. the graft involving the acid mines were so bad, one of the original companies fled town, hoping the feds were not watching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal indictment in Marquette County over a semi-auto AK-47 Style pistol allegedly possessed by convicted felon

U.P. Breaking News Bulletin   12-10-16 5 p.m. ET

Terror in Marquette Township: Children present when Trowbridge Park home was allegedly shot up with AK-style pistol – and then UPSET raid

(scroll down to read previous story)

By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433

More exclusive information is coming out this weekend on that federal gun case filed this week – and that sources now say involved shooting up a home next to a day care center in Marquette Township.

With children reportedly present, 35-year-old Derrick Scott Jones  allegedly “shot up” his girlfriend’s house with that AK type weapon, sources say.

The AK-pistol incident allegedly happened on Nov. 18, 2016 at a Badger Street home in Trowbridge Park.

The shooting allegedly included dozens of bullets flying across the home including destroying a 70-inch LCD television set with nine rounds, a whirlpool hot tub; four walls and three doors, sources say

UPSET detectives arrived on the scene and took Jones into custody, sources say.

UPSET searched the home.

The suspect allegedly “shot up his safe” that allegedly contained mason jars used to allegedly store marijuana, sources say.

A single mom, with children home at the time, was said to have been terrified by the entire incident.

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U.P. Breaking News Bulletin 12-8-16 6:20 a.m. ET

Feds Confiscate Semi-Automatic AK-47 Style Assault Pistol and 170 rounds of ammo

By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433

A Marquette County man who the feds say had no business with guns – has been indicted for allegedly having an AK-47 style pistol and 170 rounds of ammunition.

35-year-old Derrick Scott Jones was indicted by a federal grand jury in Marquette. MI

A check indicates he lives in Trowbridge Park, however his name is so common even Facebook has dozens of profiles under his name.

Jones is being held today at the Marquette County Jail under a contract with U.S. Marshals.

He is charged with unlawful transport of firearms, etc.; drug user and addict in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The alleged offense occurred on Nov. 18, 2016 in Marquette County, the indictment states.

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The indictment also includes a forfeiture demand of the weapon plus 170 rounds of ammo.

The feds want to a seize the gun confiscated – described as an AK-47 style assault pistol – specifically: a semi-automatic C.N. Romarm/Cugir, Model Draco, 7.62x39mm caliber pistol

The feds also seized approximately 170 rounds of 7.62x39mm caliber ammunition, the indictment states.

Editor’s Note: This is an unusual charge, so if one has information on this case please reach out to U.P. Breaking News.  906-273-2433

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Derrick Scott Jones

Filed: 12/06/2016

Marquette County

Citation: 18:922G.F

Offense Level: 4

Laws:
18:922(g)(3), 18:921(a), 18:924(a)(2)

Unlawful transport of firearms, etc.; drug user and addict in possession of a firearm and ammunition

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Dumpster diving incidents by Marquette’s hungry and begging to help freezing children: Just the cold facts – as grey as the skies

The Real Scare of Halloween: There is ‘No Room at the Inn’ this Holiday Season in Marquette or the Upper Peninsula

Already proof of poverty and hunger issues to come in Marquette, MI and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433

(Marquette, MI) – Three incidents of hunger and cold over the past two days in Marquette, MI shows the gales of winter’s poverty and homelessness have come early as the Upper Peninsula.

In fact, the U.P., itself is barely coming to grip with the extent of the growing poverty and a hunger crisis – and if there is any substance abuse issues involving the hungry – all rules seem to get thrown out the window.

State budget cuts and high unemployment ate taking their toll.

The Marquette, Michigan Poverty Incidents Fri., Oct. 28, 2016 and today Sat., Oct. 29, 2016 (so far):

• A short while ago on this cold Saturday morning a man was begging for food money for his hungry child on Bike Path – possible name is Steve Mert (sp? – we would like to talk to him).

• Friday – Police called to local restaurant because hungry people were “dumpster diving”

• Friday – twice on Friday police called to an exclusive neighborhood in north Marquette where a male and a 15-year-old female show up asking to be let inside because they are cold and hungry – they claimed to be neighbors but man who called police did not recognize them.

The Warming Center and the faith-based Room at the Inn Project do what they can – with almost no money. They are forced to weed out – send packing or arrested – all those who have been drinking or doing drugs. Police do not have the jail space to lock away the problem – nor should they be expected.

The problem is likely to get worse as the snow blankets the U.P.

Out of real fear, should people not help those who arrive at their door seeking help?

What would Jesus or any of the faith leaders do?

How many will die this winter suffering in the frozen U.P.?

How cold are we as humans with people who are fallible?

http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/surplus_goods/index.php#.WBSZISRyyRk

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/06/down_and_out_in_purest_michiga.html

http://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Marquette-Michigan.html

Painkiller ring in Chippewa County busted after undercover buys – four arrested in Soo raid

The TRI-D.EN.T Spear – Pain killers bust by the eastern Upper Peninsula Tri-County  Drug Enforcement Task Force
Undercover probe leads to four more arrests for allegedly running an opiates distribution ring in Chippewa County

Prior to the arrest of four suspects with their alleged parts in an painkiller ring, a state and federal drug team in the Eastern U.P. made numerous undercover buys and then raided a home on Maple St. in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, according to a TRIDENT press release from Chippewa County Undersheriff Michael Bitnar.

The opiates bust was made by the eastern Upper Peninsula Tri-County  Drug Enforcement Task Force – better known as Tri-D.EN.T or simply TRIDENT by those afraid of its spear.

The drugs were allegedly procured downstate for sale in the eastern U.P.

One suspect is employed as a cook, the other three unemployed.

Arrested were:

Edward James Willis, Jr., 28, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Adam Scott Glaser, 26, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Krysta Lee Fike, 24, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Kurtis Robert Bruni, 29, Pickford, MI

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Stop throwing poor Native Americans in federal prison if you ignore serious white collar crimes in Upper Peninsula – U.P. Breaking News Editorial to the U.P. Feds

friendly fyi to Federal Prosecutors: U.P. and statewide white collar crime including indifference to human life – linked to recent cop-shooting deaths – prison riot – and other alarming environment crimes unrelated to Flint

Open message to Michigan’s two top cops – U.S. Attorneys Barbara L. McQuade and Patrick A. Miles, Jr.

By Greg Peterson
Owner, News Director
U.P. Breaking News
906-273-2433

The public is going to lose faith in the federal prosecutors office if you do not bring serious charges against our Governor Rick Snyder – and for that matter all the state, federal and locals involved in allowing crimes to happen (often under pressure) or indifference.

While maybe it is needed due to serious crimes – buts it is easy to throw a low-income Native American in federal prison. It is not easy to go after white collar crime especially white white-collar crime.

This comes from a big fan of the federal prosecutors and all the hard work they do across the Upper Peninsula and the state. But Michigan’s budget cuts have gone beyond the bone – and now U.P. ground blood-stained with the innocent.

U.P. Michigan State Police and other law enforcement budget cuts has forced the cops to be psychiatrists – and the mental health system is collapsing – suicides grow – and now retired Yoopers are being shot and killed in their bedrooms by cops who are punished if they follow protocol.
Modern police training dictates handling a suicidal person with the proper patience and care – not rushing into a man’s home. If I were the state troopers and the other cops I would be demanding to stop this before U.P. cops get killed. They normally have many other calls to go to and most of the time barging in doesn’t result in a death – its a budget issue red pen vs red blood.

You folks spend a lot of time throwing Native Americans in federal prison – most rightfully so – but when it comes to white collar corruption in the U.P. you are failing. Period. Your hard-working U.P. staff can barely handle the Native American related caseload – I know because I follow hundreds of cases.

Preferably it should be federal RICO charges against the Governor and his department heads and other minions – under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

In fact, as was done in the “ongoing crime spree” by the feds to the Illinois governor – you should act immediately to remove him from office – or take he and his top staff out of power.

In the Upper Peninsula cops this year have shot and killed two men in their own homes – during incredibly a “well-being check.” The Upper Peninsula prisons are so understaffed that another inmate riot like Kinross – is all but certain especially with under-staffing and angry inmates.

The U.P. state prison meals lines are a huge issue for under-staffing – dangerously riot prone – plus entrenched supervisors who just do not care about inmate rights (We are not sympathetic for those who commit violent crimes – but remember folks we are trying to run a society here).

We can prove – give you places to probe – that the state lied publicly about the U.P. prison riot before and after it happened – but all you have to do is read the Sunday U.P. Papers to get it. U.P. Breaking News was the lone wolf.

Plus a Kinross inmate just died after his medical needs were neglected – and we are about to report on another inmate who also just died – in the Jackson, MI area because of the lack of proper medical care.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, according to numerous sources.

This can not be allowed to happen in a civilized society – especially when faith in law enforcement is at stake. We need law enforcement. But white collar corruption especially when it leads to deaths – can not be tolerated..

These are not minor issues – even if we put aside the poisoning of a generation of low-income Flint children.

We have proof the state lied about environmental crimes in the U.P. including the destruction statewide of the deer herd – and the lie about the reason for the wolf hunt – that federal taxpayers paid a millions to reintroduce to have them killed for pennies a piece.

Plus if a grand jury probed the connection between the Marquette County Road Commission (notorious for pitiful record keeping) – and Kennecott and even the current mine owners over the superhighway that has replaced the once fabled two-rut/dirt Triple A Road for the Acid Mine – all those crimes from unrepentant local elected officials to state officials (we can prove it) – and both mine owners is rife with special treatment, sweetheart deals and luxury travel. Kennecott’s worldwide crime spree has been widely documented and they brought their dirty ways to the U.P. – then fled. No coincidence.

The problem is we can not trust the Michigan Attorney General’s Office to properly investigate its own boss. Remember it is called a conflict of interest.

So – white collar crime in Michigan should be just as important in the Upper Peninsula for the feds as throwing impoverished Native Americans in prison – which many deserve and we love the domestic violence and other initiatives.

U.P. Breaking News has clearly outline these crimes in our news stories and editorials. Now we officially put some of the responsibility on the federal doorstep if more people die or there is another riot. We have warned you – and everyone that U.P. lives are – indeed – at stake.

U.P. Breaking News Editorial: We call for a rare Michigan Grand Jury probe in Marquette County – Very serious questions in aftermath of the shooting death of an elderly Ishpeming Township man – rare local Grand Jury needed to expose why mental health system has broken down in Marquette County – and to explain why this should not have ended up one of the sad suicide by cop stories

Ambulance leaves scene at approx 9:39 a.m.; roughly 30 minutes after the shooting happened and 40 minutes after original call.  Photos by Greg Peterson

Editorial: Breakdown in U.P. and Marquette County mental health care, and not enough training on defusing a situation are among factors in the shooting of an elderly Ishpeming man

 

Ishpeming Township June 9, 2016 Shooting Timeline:

• Original Call 200 Block of Silver St.: 8:50 a.m.

• Shooting call approx 9:10 a.m.

• (U.P. Breaking News on scene approx 9:25 a.m.)

• Paramedics, police doing CPR as they leave house with victim on a stretcher: 9:36 a.m.

• Ambulance leaves the scene 9:39 a.m.

2005  Marquette County Sheriff’s Dept. Policy for Nonlethal Force by Police

Why did it take 30 minutes to transport the shooting victim?

Besides the usual funding excuse, they are Marquette County and other U.P. and nonlethal force are almost strangers? Others have been shot by U.P. Law enforcement.

Why did it take so long to transport victim – despite CPR and possible defib?

Why is Pathways Community Mental Health allowed to provide poor services – again funding is blamed because of the lethal Snyder Administration whose policies are not life-friendly?!

This will lead to more suicides – we should care!

By Greg Peterson

News Director, Owner

Upper Peninsula Breaking News

I think it was likely “Suicide by Cop” yesterday in west Ishpeming.

But there are many very serious questions in the aftermath of the shooting of a despondent elderly west Ishpeming man in chronic pain.

The shooting by a Marquette County Sheriff’s Dept. deputy painfully shows the Upper Peninsula – like access to U.P. public records – is light years behind the rest of the nation when it comes to readily available non-lethal force.

Officers should be trained to defuse and back off – call in experts. That obviously was not done – every cop should have backed out.

Why did it take 30 minutes to rush the victim to the hospital?

There is an old saying in the paramedic game – yes you do CPR, yes to shock (defibrillator) if needed but you always “scoop and run.”

Why are Upper Peninsula law officers not better trained in non-lethal force – and to back out – not increase the drama?

With all of today’s non-lethal force avenues – those who fund – or do not fund – nonlethal force in the Upper Peninsula should be ashamed. Again money over people.

Why wasn’t non-lethal force used – because there appeared to be numerous cops on the scene when shooting occurred.

The first media on the scene, Upper Peninsula Breaking News had been on the shooting location roughly five minutes or longer when – all of a sudden – out of the blue – a somewhat grumpy Michigan State Trooper began shouting at me.

The bristly trooper shouted that cops were going to cordon off the scene. While the tape shows the trooper used the proper polite words – he then started giving me a “count to five” or I presume he would have arrested me.

I get it – there is a syndrome called Suicide by Cop – especially if there is a sadness, poverty, loneliness and chronic pain (today little is done to help those who legitimately need pain relief due to the epidemic of pill heads).

Over the past two years, the rash of suicides across the Upper Peninsula and in Marquette County is stunning.

Now all but completely inept Pathways Community Mental Health has little funding or tools to do much about it. I believe Pathways employees care – and the administration plays the cards they are dealt from Lansing – but the system is a joke.

So I can believe that this elderly guy may have wanted to be shot by the cops – not sure – but it is certainly plausible.

U.P. Breaking News has been conducting an investigation of how Pathways is letting the public down through fewer services, lack of funding (budget cuts) and mismanagement.

Upper Peninsula Health System Marquette is benefiting greatly from financial-clumsiness of Pathways.

For example, for just one client/patient it is costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.

U.P. Health System Marquette paramedics (ambulance runs cost $1,400 or so per incident) – have responded to an estimated/roughly 100 calls over past two years for this one client.

U.P. Health System Marquette – a Duke LifePoint Hospital that has saved lives in the U.P. – also stands to make hundreds of thousands of dollars on this patient alone.

At issue is weekly calls to the same residence on the 8th floor of Pine Ridge Apartments in Marquette because of a male Pathways client in his early 20’s who suffers from chronic panic attacks and other issues – and yet it housed near the top of Pine Ridge Apartments.

Why hasn’t the Marquette Housing Commission – which oversees Pine Ridge – addressed this and other issues.

Pine Ridge Apartments used to be for the low income elderly – now it is a dumping ground for Pathways clients.

U.P Breaking News calls for the state of Michigan and U.P. Health System Marquette (Duke LifePoint) to account for this improperly handled situation – one of many.

By not addressing the needs of this client, Pathways has also wasted the resources of the city of Marquette Fire department and the city of Marquette Police Department – who often are sent to the call.

Its actually a painful joke at 911 Central Dispatch because this reporter has heard many dispatchers put out the call on the radio in a somewhat sarcastic way – and who can blame the !!!

They care at Marquette County Central Dispatch – but Pathways is asleep at the wheel thanks to the Snyder Administration that shows little care for those with mental health and poverty issues.

Remember the Snyder Administration poisoned a generation of low income kids in Flint and elsewhere. A state scapegoat or two have been arrested – but its common knowledge among Snyder Administration employees know you do not dissent or challenge their boss’s political ideas. Plus the U.S. EPA should be ashamed at the very least.

Numerous friends and relatives of suicide victims have told U.P. Breaking News that Pathways is letting down the public.

There are many horror stories at Pathways since budget cuts under the Snyder Administration.

This is just one terrible, sick incident:

Did you know – a Pathways contracted home for clients in Ishpeming where the woman in charge was feeding moldy sandwiches to blind pathways patients in her case – many thought that was oddly ironic since she was extremely morbidly obese at the time – and this reporter has dealt with weight issues.

We mention the obesity because she was repeatedly feeding the MOLDY SANDWICHES. I dare the state to deny the moldy sandwiches as a half-hearted state probe was conducted.

The investigation is being handled by Michigan State Police and will be reviewed by the Marquette County Prosecutor’s office.

U.P. Breaking News strongly urges these officials to not simply state the shooting was justified – but rather identify and investigate the system problems with non lethal force, inept and wasteful Pathways services to those with depression, and how those in the entire top to bottom mental health response system not only allows it to happen but profits from it.

In fact – if there was ever a time to form a grand jury it is now – to find out what happening to those who need our help the most – but are being failed by the system.

This is why we need a regular Grand Jury system in Michigan – in other states state and local grand juries make findings and demand probes – when local bureaucrats and politicians do not have the courage.

The poster child for misuse of grand juries is said to be the Upper Peninsula:

In fact, the infamous and violent 1913 copper miners strike and related uprisings in the U.P. is being credited with starting the use of grand juries for political revenge with politically powerful company bosses vs miners in Michigan, according to a newsweek story.

“The forces that ran the local government, who were almost unanimously pro-management, evaded justice for the bulk of their crimes. They did this by manipulating the legal process. Of particular note: They rigged a grand jury into failing to indict for some very public and obvious crimes.“

If political bosses and officials do not do their job – someone has to.

Suicide by Cop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_cop

http://www.suicidebycop.com/

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-by-cop.html

https://www.policeone.com/police-products/training/articles/84176-Suicide-By-Cop-15-warning-signs-that-you-might-be-involved/

Marquette County and U.P. Suicides (see below is a list of Michigan suicide prevention help agencies)

https://www.facebook.com/Upper-Peninsula-Suicide-Prevention-Coalition-165690650165444/

http://www.dialhelp.org

https://www.facebook.com/AFSPnational

See U.P. Breaking News stories on suicide including Nov. 11, 2015 story

https://upperpeninsulabreakingnews.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/rash-of-recent-suicides-in-marquette-county-underlines-national-and-local-epidemic

https://plus.google.com/+UpperPeninsulaBreakingNewsGregPeterson/posts/S8Cyw8kZwY2

https://upperpeninsulabreakingnews.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/speechless-tears-and-gut-ache-over-loss-of-mr-robin-williams/

Dial Help Community Support & Outreach Center

Houghton, MI

If you are in immediate crisis:

Call: (906) 482-HELP (4357)
Text: (906) 35-NEEDS (63337)

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

1-800-273-8255

Available 24 hours everyday

Marquette County Sheriff’s Department

http://co.marquette.mi.us/departments/sheriff_s_office/index.php#.V1rsETVyyRk

205 MCSD Nonlethal force policy

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjM5OGy_J3NAhWH5IMKHY6kCLgQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislationline.org%2Fdocuments%2Fid%2F7138&usg=AFQjCNEDEOlStL8VA-bWBoEQY1D2TI1ztA&sig2=4qBR3DQTMy-JZCnnqdKVtA

Marquette County Sheriff Michael Lovelace

mlovelace@mqtco.org

MCSD Undersheriff Michael L. Klein

mklein@mqtco.org

Upper Peninsula Breaking News

Pathways Community Mental Health

http://www.pathwaysup.org

http://www.pathwaysup.org/SitePages/index.htm

Marquette Housing Commission/Pine Ridge Apartments in Marquette, MI

http://www.mqthc.org/

U.P. Health System Marquette, a Duke LifePoint Hospital

http://www.uphealthsystem.com

Marquette County 911 Central Dispatch

http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/departments/central_dispatch/index.php#.V1r3NjVyyRk

U.P. Police shootings

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/06/deputy_shoots_kills_elderly_ma.html

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/01/geoffrey_fiegers_law_firm_sues_1.html

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/parents-police-officer-murdered-unarmed-son-in-michigan-u-p-

Grand Jury system adopted in many states rarely used in Michigan – except for federal court – because it acts as watchdog and critic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_juries_in_the_United_States

http://research.lawyers.com/michigan/criminal-process-in-michigan.html

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(ra1f2itmcevch0yaqwhsniqk))/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&objectName=mcl-175-1927-VII

http://www.lawqa.com/qa/when-grand-jury-used

https://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/91d6804c-df7f-46e6-b077-641541df1225.pdf

http://www.newsweek.com/scot-free-why-grand-jury-system-should-be-reformed-290763

Marquette County suicide prevention group forming

Marquette County Suicide Prevention Coalition | WNMU-FM

Suicide prevention coalition formed in Marquette County

Upper Peninsula Suicide Prevention Coalition – Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/Upper-Peninsula-Suicide-Prevention-Coalition-165690650165444/

Marquette County – Suicide Prevention Alliance

Aug 21, 2015 – Let’s Talk: A Community Conversation About Suicide Prevention Event … The Marquette County Suicide Prevention Alliance is pleased to offer

Local alliance focuses on suicide prevention | Marquette

Michigan Suicide Prevention Contacts:

Alger, Luce & Schoolcraft Counties

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Barb Smutek 906.635.8629 bsmutek@saulttribe.net

Allegan County

Mimi Gabriel mimigabriel61@gmail.com

Amy Embury 269.673.6617 ext. 2711 aembury@accmhs.org

Alpena County

Pamela Lloyd-Gorski 989.354.9104 pamlg@i2k.com

Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska & Leelanau Counties

Micki Jannazzo 231.922.4802 mjannazzo@thirdlevel.org

Arenac & Bay Counties

Trisha Charbonneau-Ivey 989.895.2381 tivey@babha.org

Baraga County

Pam Dove 906.524.3449 pdove@bcmh.org

Berrien, Cass & St. Joseph Counties

Trent Watford 269.428.7226 trentwatford@gmail.com

Branch County

Bruce Sweet 517.279.8404

Charlevoix & Emmet Counties

Andrew Sahara, PhD 231.347.6701 asahara@norcocmh.org

Chippewa County

Dr. Barbara Weber 906.635.7270 weber1222@sbcglobal.net

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Barb Smutek 906.635.8629 bsmutek@saulttribe.net

Clinton County

Christian McDaniel 989.224.5300 mcdaniec@ceicmh.org

Debby Kloosterman 517.668.0185 klooster@edzone.net

Crawford and Roscommon Counties

Nicole Ellens 989.366.1105 Nicole.ellens@nlcmh.org

Delta County

Ann Buchler 906.399.4950 abuchler@dsnet.us

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Barb Smutek 906.635.8629 bsmutek@saulttribe.net

Dickinson County

Tina Tappy 906.774.0273 teetappy@charter.net

Eaton County

Polly Brainerd 517.541.8939 pbrainerd@eatonisd.org

Gratiot County

Bob Radaz 989.466.4163 bradaz@gccmha.org

Hillsdale County

David King 517.796.4519 david.king@lifewayscmh.org

Huron County

Kathie Harrison 989.269.0373 kathie@huroncmh.org

Iron County

Bill Reid 906.779.0637 breid@nbhs.org

Jackson County

David King 517.796.4519 david.king@lifewayscmh.org

Kalamazoo County

Guy Golomb 269.381.1510 ggolomb@gryphon.org

Kent County

Barbara Hawkins-Palmer 616.632.7281 barb.hawkins-palmer@kentcountymi.gov

Lake, Mason & Oceana Counties

Jim Thomas 231.843.5431 JimT@wmcmhs.org

Lenawee County

Kathryn Szewczuk 517.263.8905 KSzewczuk@LCMHA.org

Livingston County

Leslie Hall 517.546.4126 x580 lhall@cmhliv.org

Mackinac County

Ann Belonga 906.643.8442 abbelonga@sault.com

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Barb Smutek 906.635.8629 bsmutek@saulttribe.net

LIFT (Lucas Izzard Foundation for Teens)

Lisa Burnside 906.484.2298

Macomb County

Gary Burnett 586.948.6104 gary.burnett@mccmh.net

Marquette County

The Marquette County Suicide Prevention Alliance Sarah Derwin 906.315.2621 sderwin@mqtco.org

Menominee County

Dan McVane 715.735.9820 brmcvdan@gmail.com

Midland County

Kathy Dollard 989.837.0708 kdollard@cmhcm.org

Missaukee & Wexford Counties

Ken Nydam 231.876.3280 ken.nydam@nlcmh.org

Monroe County

Larry Csokasy 734.240.1770 larry.csokasy@mercymemorial.org

Montcalm County

Penny Dora 616.225.6136 pdora@maisd.com

Muskegon County

Michael Pyne 231.724.6618 michael.pyne@muskegoncmh.org

Newaygo County

Mike Geoghan 231.689.7330 mgeoghan@newaygocmh.org

Oakland County

James Perlaki 248.451.3738 jperlaki@commongroundhelps.org

Saginaw County

Nancy Johnson 989.797.3546 njohnson@sccmha.org

Sanilac County

Nancy Dean 888.580.5437 FREE ndean@sanilaccmh.org

Shiawassee County

Penny Corbin 989.723.0709 pcorbin@shiacmh.org

St. Clair County

Amy Smith 810.966.7830 asmith@scccmh.org

Tuscola County

Susan Walker 989.550.8283 susaneawalker@yahoo.com

Van Buren County

Liz Courtney 269.655.3341 lcourtney@vbcmh.com

Washtenaw County

Michelle Rose Armstrong 734.368.1114 michellerosearmstrong@gmail.com