URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 1-9-18 – 3:12 a.m. ET
Animal Cruelty Arrest:
Plus various other cases including drugs and child endangerment
By Greg Peterson
S.E. Social Justice Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433
(Escanaba, MI) – A Delta County man is jailed this morning for alleged animal abuse – this after being convicted last spring in the 2016 starvation and torture of dogs – while other residents of Delta County faces serious charges including child endangerment, fighting with the cops, and narcotics cases including running a drug house
34-year-old Kyle Patrick Kidd of Gladstone, MI was booked into the Delta County Detention Center (DCDC) at 8:20 p.m. Monday night.
Kidd is charged with cruelty/abandonment of animals. Bond is not set.
Details of the case are not known.
It appears to be the second case he’s been charged with.
In the spring of 2017, Kidd faced the same cruelty charges in the starvation death of one dog and starvation torture of two others.
Kidd was sentenced to 30 days in jail on a charge of abandoning cruelty to animals info allegedly abusing three animals.
Kidd was convicted by a Delta County District Court Jury on two counts of abandoning/cruelty to animals after a dog died in June 2016.
Kidd agreed to feed and water the dogs while the owner was out of town.
He claimed he though she had returned home.
A 10-month-old German shepherd died from starvation/lack of water and two other dogs were suffering from no food or water. Kidd was placed on six months probation and ordered to pay over $1,400 in fines/costs.
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Animal cruelty always increases in the winter across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Just the other night, a law enforcement officer in Delta County rescued an injured/freezing dog. Plus, last January, U.P. Breaking News ran stories on alleged mistreatment of the famous Mackinac Island horses at their sparse winter digs in the eastern U.P. A friendly dog originally thought to be a stray popped up at a Marquette school playground – cops were called – and the owner was quickly on the scene as the dog took off when its buddy had their attention distracted. Several times a day, people call cops in the U.P. To investigate animals left outside in near zero and below zero weather. How can people be cruel to animals. While it was not a case of mistreatment, we heard a report last week that a U.P. wolf got caught in a snare used for other animals – was released unharmed.
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Meanwhile numerous other Delta County residents are facing serious felony charges in unrelated cases.
Jeff Hapner
50-year-old Jeffery Hapner of Wilson, MI was booked into the DCDC about 11:20 p.m. on Mon., Jan. 8, 2018.
Hapner is charged with child endangerment. Bond is not set.
Hapner has several Facebook Pages an one states he a casino security officer for the Hannahville Indian Community
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Nicole Marie Meyers
30-year-old Nicole Marie Meyers was booked into the DCDC just before midnight on Mon., Jan. 8, 2018. Meyers is an Escanaba native however; her Facebook page states she lives in Germany.
She is charged with resisting arrest/obstructing a police officer and failure to appear in court.
No bond is set.
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Lisa Seymour
53-year-old Lisa Seymour of Escanaba, MI was booked into the DCDC about 4:50 p.m. on Mon., Jan 8, 2018 on drug charges.
Seymour is charged with maintaining a drug house.
Details of that case have not been made public – however numerous U.P. Residents have been arrested in recent weeks on charges that include possession of analogues to make meth. The crystal meth epidemic sours in the U.P.
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Tavaris Jackson
On Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, 27-year-old Tavaris Lee Jackson, Jr. was booked into the DCDC at about 8:20 a.m. on a charge of possession of drug analogues. He was released on bond 11 hours later. Jackson is an Escanaba native whose Facebook page states he lives in Hollywood, FL. He has a long criminal history in Delta County and elsewhere in Michigan including being a convicted child sex offender and the strangulation of his girlfriend.
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40-year-old Kristy Beauchamp of Gladstone, MI was booked into the DCDC at about 3:20 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 for possession of analogues. She remains jailed.
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Diana Marie Snowaert
27-year-old Diana Snowaert of Escanaba, MI was booked into the DCDC on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 just before 1 p.m. on a charge of possession of analogues.
Upper Peninsula Breaking News by Greg Peterson 