Greenville, MI Doctor skips prison for skipping on taxes

Urgent 1-25-17 Exclusive Doctor Bust; no prison this time, – MI Doctor busted again, Sentenced yesterday 1-24-17 – this time on tax charges 1:20 p.m. ET – U.P. Breaking News pays a fortune for court records – so when we see a case missed by even the downstate media (except one TV station had it) – we report it. For example this is only one of several big cases in federal court yesterday – including the arrest of another postal worker

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

 

See the cdocuments:

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(Grand Rapids, MI) – A Greenville, MI doctor, who served state time for resisting arrest and chronic drunken driving, was sentenced yesterday by a federal judge after admitting he lied about over $114,000 income from his Kent County medical practice in 2009 and 2010.

dean-a-ruble-2-mdoc51-year-old Dean Ruble of Greenville, MI, who was reportedly investigated for writing questionable pain med prescriptions, was sentenced to three months probation by United States Magistrate Judge Ellen S. Carmody in Grand Rapids, MI.

The DEA and other state federal and local drug agents raided his pain clinic in September 2010 after a year-long probe – but no charges have yet been filed in that case.

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Ruble ordered to make over $50,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and fined $5,000.

The IRS settled for just over $50,000 but stated the crime involved over $56,000.

On Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, Ruble pleaded guilty to a federal Class A misdemeanor information charging him with failure to file tax returns. In the plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Ruble “his level of gross income exceeded the minimum income for filing a return, which was $9,350 for tax year 2010 and admitted “willfully” and “deliberately” failing to file federal income returns that “he knew the law required to be filed.” Ruble was ordered to make “payment of taxes owed” and to “file true and complete tax returns for calendar years 2008-2010.”

In April 2012, Roble was sentenced to five years in state prison for resisting arrest and drunk driving third offense. He was paroled in April 2016. In prison he was simply know as inmate number: 796028

Ruble was arrested by a bond agent after skipping to Flint, MI area motel on those state charges, but he was captured and pleaded no contest – and given 5 years – paroled after four years.

The plea agreements states:


During calendar year 2010, the Defendant resided in Kent County in the Western District of Michigan, and had gross income of approximately $114,602.29 related to his medical practice.

On or about April 15, 2011, the Defendant filed an extension to file his federal income tax return for 2010, extending his time to file to October 15, 2011.

Based on his gross income for 2010, the Defendant knew that he had the legal obligation to timely file a tax return for 2010, but he did not do so by October 15, 2011.

The federal prosecutor in the case is Assistant U.S. Attorney Raymond E. Beckering III in Grand Rapids, MI. Ruble’s defense attorney is J. Terrance Dillon.

Ruble was also investigated for improperly writing painkiller prescriptions, stated a Feb. 2011 story on MLive states

Federal agents investigated Ruble for “allegedly prescribing painkillers to people without cause and taking cash in exchange for authorizing the prescriptions” – and allegedly “wrote prescriptions of Adderall, Tramadol and Suboxone to an undercover police officer over three months,” stated the MLive story. No federal charges were filed.

U.P. Breaking News is checking to see if his license to practice medicine has been revoked.

More info:

Assistant U.S. Attorney Raymond E. Beckering II

Grand Rapids, MI 49501-0208

(616) 456-2404

Feb. 2012 story on MLive By John Tunison jtunison@mlive.com

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/02/dean_ruble_greenville_doctor_i.html

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MDOC Number: 796028

Name: Dean Alan Ruble

Racial Identification: White

Gender: Male

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Brown

Height: 5′ 9″

Weight: 195 lbs.

54-year-old Dean Alan Ruble

Image Date:

9/19/2013

MDOC STATUS Discharged Date: 4/11/2016

Sentence 1:

Offense: Police Officer – Assault/Resist/Obstruct

MCL#: 750.81D1

Maximum Sentence:

5 years

Date of Offense: 7/15/2010 in Montcalm County

Date of Sentence: 4/22/2011

Conviction Type: Nolo Contendere

Discharge Date: 04/11/2016

Sentence 2:

Operating Intoxicated/Impaired/Controlled Substance – 3rd

Minimum Sentence:

MCL#: 257.6256D

Maximum Sentence: 5 years

Date of Offense: 7/15/2010 in Montcalm County

Date of Sentence: 4/22/2011

Conviction Type: Nolo Contendere

Discharge Date: 4/11/2016

 

A mixture of U.P./downstate news not always reported: The Ice Man Slammed, Bank robber sentenced, another charged; $22 million dollar IRS settlement; Lawsuit about Marquette Branch Prison; Man busted for sexual exploitation of children; Federal prisoner served almost 111 month sentence then makes terrible mistake (Did he want to go back?)

Important and urgent – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin “The Ice Man Cometh and Goeth to Prison” 12-22-16 5:15 p.m. ET
Slammed Federal Judge Robert Holmes Bell gives a long sentence to a man charged in a large methamphetamine ring downstate. You can down load and read everything about this case – interesting meth operation One of numerous U.P. And west Michigan cases paid for by U.P. Breaking News – so you can read it or download for free – and many of the cases have never been covered by the media.

URGENT – A mixture of U.P. And downstate news that hasn’t been reported – including a $22 million dollar IRS settlement; Lawsuit over medical conditions at Marquette Branch Prison. Others: Man charged with sexual exploitation of children; Federal prisoner who had served almost his entire 111 month sentence and did something very stupid

U.P. Breaking News spends a fortune on federal records.
Often we pay for stuff that has not been reported downstate but is not from U.P.
A few examples – and we are providing links to record you can download for more information. One case mentions being the “taxpayers alter ego.”


What do you do when you owe the IRS over $22 million dollars =- you let the government take over operation of your business (scroll down).

Sometimes the criminal cases are interesting and – and so are the federal civil cases – including one that revealed a whopper of a story last week – but no one covered it – now we do. Here are 4 of many examples I could post.  We have to be thorough and that means keeping watch.

Important and urgent - U.P. Breaking News Bulletin “The Ice Man Cometh and Goeth to Prison”  12-22-16  5:15 p.m. ET
Slammed Federal Judge Robert Holmes Bell gives a long sentence to a man charged in a large methamphetamine ring downstate. You can down load and read everything about this case – interesting meth operation
One of numerous U.P. And west Michigan cases paid for by U.P. Breaking News – so you can read it or download for free – and many of the cases have never been covered by the media.

(Grand Rapids, MI) - Sentencing this week for “The Ice Man” - the main defendant in a huge methamphetamine ring.
The Ice Man received a long prison term (300 months) in federal court for a meth conspiracy in Kalamazoo County and elsewhere
Johnny Wayne Ratliff was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on Mon, Dec. 20, 2016 by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Holmes Bell in Grand Rapids. There is no parole or early release in the federal prison system. Once release, Ratliff will be under 5 years supervised release.

JOHNNY WAYNE RATLIFF,

a/k/a “Iceman,”

a/k/a “Memphis,”

and

BRANDON D. JORDAN

Download The Iceman – or just read the pdf. (no cost at all ever):

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Under a plea agreement Ratliff, entered a guilty plea to the charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine

Johnny Wayne Ratliff (1)
Office: Southern Division (1)     	Filed: 11/18/2015
County: Kalamazoo 	Terminated: 12/20/2016     	Reopened:
Magistrate Case: 	1:15-mj-00231-ESC

Count: 1 	Citation: 21:846=CD.F     	Offense Level: 4
     21:846, 21:841(a)(1), 21:841(b)(1)(A)(viii) CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE; methamphetamine conspiracy
Count: 3 	Citation: 21:841B=CP.F     	Offense Level: 4
     21:841(a)(1), 21:841(b)(1)(C) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
Count: 4 	Citation: 21:841A=NP.F     	Offense Level: 4
     21:841(a)(1), 21:841(b)(1)(C) NARCOTICS - POSSESSION; possession with intent to distribute heroin
Count: 5 	Citation: 18:922G.F     	Offense Level: 4
     18:922(g)(1), 18:921(a), 18:924(a)(2) UNLAWFUL TRANSPORT OF FIREARMS, ETC.; felon in possession of a firearm
Count: 1s 	Citation: 21:846=CD.F     	Offense Level: 4
     21:846, 21:841(a)(1), 21:841(b)(1)(A)(viii) and 841(b)(1)(C) CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE; methamphetamine conspiracy
Count: 3s 	Citation: 21:841B=CP.F     	Offense Level: 4
     21:841(a)(1), 21:841(b)(1)(C) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
Count: 4s 	Citation: 21:841B=NP.F     	Offense Level: 4
     21:841(a)(1), 21:841(b)(1)(C) NARCOTICS - POSSESSION; possession with intent to distribute heroin
Count: 5s 	Citation: 18:922G.F     	Offense Level: 4
     18:922(g)(1), 18:921(a), 18:924(a)(2) UNLAWFUL TRANSPORT OF FIREARMS, ETC.; felon in possession of a firearm
Count: 1ss 	Citation: 21:846=CD.F     	Offense Level: 4
     21:846, 21:841(a)(1), 21:841(b)(1)(A)(viii) and 841(b)(1)(C) CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE; methamphetamine conspiracy
Count: 2ss 	Citation: 21:841B=CP.F     	Offense Level: 4
     21:841(a)(1), 21:841(b)(1)(C) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
Count: 3ss 	Citation: 18:922G.F     	Offense Level: 4
     18:922(g)(1), 18:921(A), 18:924(a)(2) UNLAWFUL TRANSPORT OF FIREARMS, ETC.; felon in possession of a firearm
Defendant Custody Status: Custody This Court
Flag: FORFEITURE

plaintiff: USA Federal Prosecutor
Assistant U.S. Attorney  Heath M. Lynch	
Phone:	(616) 456-2404
Email:	heath.lynch at usdoj.gov


 

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Bank robber sentenced yesterday, Dec. 21, 2016 – 12-21-16

Admitted bank robber Durand Quentin Lee received nearly six years (70 months) in federal prison yesterday by a federal judge Paul L. Maloney

Lee was indicted for the May 2016 holdup at the Huntington Bank in Kent County.

He used a pistol. Lee pleaded/pled guilty to armed bank robbery Lee will be on three years supervised released after prison.

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Our next robbery case:



Case Summary
1:16-cr-00090-PLM All
Defendants USA v. Lee
Date filed: 05/03/2016
Date terminated: 12/20/2016
Date of last filing: 12/20/2016

Durand Quentin Lee
Office: Southern Division (1)     	Filed: 05/03/2016
County: Kent
Sentencing/Terminated: 12/20/2016

Count: 1
Citation: 18:2113A.F
Offense Level: 4
18:2113(a) and (d) BANK ROBBERY BY FORCE OR VIOLENCE; armed bank robbery
Defendant Custody Status: Custody This Court


Asst. U.S. Attorney Daniel Y. Mekaru 	
Phone:	(616) 456-2404
Email:	daniel.mekaruat usdoj.gov


plaintiff: USA Federal Prosecutor
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis M. Sanford 	
Phone:	(616) 456-2404
Email:	alexis.sanford at usdoj.gov

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Alleged bank robber busted for a June 2016 stickup at a bank in Cass County.
William Randall Sexton allegedly used “intimidation” when he is accused of robbing over $1,600 from a Chemical Bank Employee.
Read the criminal charges and more:

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Date of last filing: 12/20/2016

Office: Southern Division
Filed: 12/20/2016
County: Kent
Magistrate Case: 	1:16-mj-00161-ESC

Count: 1
Citation: 18:2113A.F
Offense Level: 4
18:2113(a)
BANK ROBBERY BY FORCE OR VIOLENCE; bank robbery

Defendant in Custody

Defendant: Designation Assistant U.S. Attorney) 		
Plaintiff: USA Federal Prosecutor
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis M. Sanford
Phone:	(616) 456-2404
Email:	alexis.sanford@usdoj.gov

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Jesus Jose Garcia-Orozco
Office: Southern Division
Filed: 12/21/2016
County: Kent
Reopened: Other Court Case: Complaint
Offense Level: 4
8:1326(a)(b)(2) Unlawful reentry of a removed alien having been convicted of an aggravated felony; 42:408(a)(7)(B)
False representation of a Social Security number Defendant Custody Status:  

Defendant: Jesus Jose Garcia-Orozco
plaintiff: USA Federal Prosecutor
Assistant U.S Attorney Donald Daniels
Phone:	(616) 456-2404
Email:	Donald.Daniels@usdoj.gov
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Jorge Solorio-Lopez
Office: Southern Division (1)     	Filed: 12/21/2016
County: Berrien 	Terminated:      	Reopened:
Magistrate Case: 	1:16-mj-00312-ESC

Count: 1
Citation: 18:1028A.F
ffense Level: 4
18:1028(a)(3
FRAUD WITH IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS; possession of five or more false identification documents

Defendant Custody Status: Custody This Court
Flags: FORFEITURE,INTERPRETER

Defendant: Jorge Solorio-Lopez
Represented by 	Kenneth P. Tableman(Designation CJA Appointment) 	
Phone:	(616) 233-0455
Fax:	(616) 776-3905

Email:	tablemank@sbcglobal.net
plaintiff: USA Federal Prosecutor
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer S. Murnahan
Phone:	(616) 456-2404
Email:	jennifer.murnahan@usdoj.gov



The government is now in the recycling business after cracking down on a Nebraska business that apparently operated in several locations.

Check out this – a $22 million dollar IRS settlement revealed.

The case is:

Southern Division CP Recycling Of Nebraska, Inc;

CP Recycling, Inc; And

CP Bio Energy, Inc.

Plaintiffs,

V.

The United States of America,

Defendant

The fantastic $22 million dollar settlement was revealed last week in federal paperwork at the United States District Court Western District of Michigan Southern Division.

The case started as the company’s complaint against the IRS – but soon auditors turned the books on the case:

2004: Plaintiffs, CP Recycling of Nebraska, Inc., CP Recycling, Inc., and CP Bio Energy, Inc.

The IRS has assessed tax liability of $22,847,407.42 against CP Renewable Energy Marketers, LLC, a now-dissolved Michigan limited liability company (the “Taxpayer”) for unpaid taxes, not including interest and penalties. The IRS levied that assessment against the bank accounts of Plaintiffs, on the theory that Plaintiffs are the alter egos of Taxpayer. Each Plaintiff is a separate and distinct legal entity from the Taxpayer and not Taxpayer’s alter ego.

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Meanwhile read this lawsuit brought by inmate Timothy Daniel Finley against the Marquette Branch Prison and others.

The federal civil lawsuit filed last month talks about about medical conditions and the staff at the Lots of lawsuits have been filed and we decided to include this because of Marquette Branch Prison:

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An alleged escapee from a federal release center has been arrested by U.S. Marshals on a felony criminal complaint charging escape.

He was declared an U.S. Marshals escapee on Dec. 12, 2016 – after several days of not returning phone calls from the center.
Michael Cornelius Sterling, 26, had just about completed a 111 month sentence – when he allegedly fled in Kent County on Dec. 9, 2016:

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Meanwhile in Calhoun County, MI on Dec. 16, 2016 a felony criminal complaint charging sexual exploitation of children was filed by FBI agents and approved by U.S. Magistrate Judge Ray Kent in Grand Rapids.

Read more about the alleged sicko exploits – allegedly by Matthew Andaluz:

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On the busiest weekend of the year for Michigan’s famed Mackinac Island – 11 Mackinac Island ferries are subjects of federal lawsuits filed within 5 days of each other last week in federal court in Marquette – one suit seeks over $30.5 million and the other about $2 million

Upper Peninsula Breaking News Exclusive:

Federal Court in Marquette, MI: The future of Mackinac Island’s longest running ferry service is in doubt – will it be the last Labor Day weekend for Arnold Line and its 11 vessels

On the busiest weekend of the year for Michigan’s famed Mackinac Island – 11 Mackinac Island ferries are subjects of federal lawsuits filed within 5 days of each other last week in federal court in Marquette – one suit seeks over $30.5 million and the about $2 million

By Greg Peterson, Upper Peninsula Breaking News

www.UpperPeninsulaBreakingNews.com

(Mackinac Island, MI) – The longest running ferry service to prestigious Mackinac Island in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is advertising its popular Labor Day Weekend trips – although the future of the “Arnold Line” and the sale of its 11 vessels including its proudest catamarans Mackinac Express and Island Express – are being played out in a pair of just filed battling federal lawsuits, Upper Peninsula Breaking News has learned.

Arnold Line - The Mackinac Express

Just filed in U.S. District Court in Marquette, Michigan (below you can download your own copies of lawsuits):

One federal lawsuit involves the Arnold Transit Company (ATC) and the sale of its catamarans Mackinac Express and Island Express to recover nearly $2 million – plus the other lawsuit involves the seizure of all 11 ferry boats and property to recover $30.5 million, according to documents obtained by Upper Peninsula Breaking News.

The lawsuits have dozens of defendants and many limited liability corporations (LLC) – most related in the ownership and financing of the company or its vessels – through financial companies, revocable trusts, loans, financing agreements, and many other tools.

Pix of lawsuit #2b against Mackinac Island ferries

The first shot across the bow of the Arnold Transport Company was filed on August 15, 2014.

Officially filed against the Mackinac Island Express, the Island Express, Arnold Bay Transit Company (ABT), Haldimand Bay Company, LLC; Mackinac Island Ferry Capital, LLC; and Roland Machinery Company.

A group of 20 people, trusts, trustees are listed as plaintiffs – and are seeking “to enforce and foreclose their First Preferred Ships Mortgages on the Mackinac Express and the Island Press, and enforce the secured Promissory Notes and Guaranty.”

Pix of lawsuit #2c against Mackinac Island ferries

Meanwhile five days later (August 20, 2014), the Mackinac Island Ferry Capital, LLC (Brent C. Rippe, CEO, Hamilton County, Ohio) filed the $30.5 million federal civil lawsuit in Marquette, MI against Haldimand Bay Company, LLC” and all the Mackinac Island boats owned by its subsidiary “ferry companies” in an effort to collect the monies through foreclosure liens on properties and vessels “that secure the indebtedness.”

Upper Peninsula LogoThe lawsuit lists several counts including breach of contract, and the foreclosure of both property and vessel mortgages. The plaintiff is represented by Traverse City attorney Matthew D. Vermetten of Brandt, Pezzetti, Vermetten & Popovits.

That 15-page second lawsuit (August 20, 2014) lists the defendants as Haldimand Bay Company, LLC; Union Terminal Piers, Inc.; Arnold Transit Company; McGregor Oil Company; Straits Transit, Inc.; Northern Ferry Company, LLC; Island Management Company, LLC; Island Resource Company, LLC; Anita Schneider; Henry W Schneider; The Toots Foundation; Stephen Schneider Trust; The 2008 Henry W. Schneider Trust, The Henry W. Schneider Delaware Trust, Cheboygan County Treasurer, Department of Treasury (Internal Revenue Service), Michigan Department of Treasury, U.S. Bancorp (financial services corp based in Minneapolis, MN); and Chase Industries, Inc. (a Michigan corporation); and the following 11 vessels – catamarans Straits Express, Island Express, and Mackinac Express, the traditional ferries Straits of Mackinac II, Chippewa, Algomah II, Ottawa, and Huron, and the non-passenger freight vessels Corsair, Beaver, and the Mackinac Islander.

Pix of lawsuit #2 against Mackinac Island ferries

Mackinac Express, a catamaran passenger ferry of the Arnold Transit Company at Mackinac Island, Michigan. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyku/163104958 by Flickr user "hyku" on June 8, 2006

Mackinac Express, a catamaran passenger ferry of the Arnold Transit Company at Mackinac Island, Michigan.
www.flickr.com/photos/hyku/163104958 by Flickr user “hyku” on June 8, 2006

Pix of lawsuit #1 against Mackinac Island ferriesThe plaintiffs in the first (August 15, 2014) lawsuit are asking a federal judge to “issue a warrant for arrest and seizure of the Mackinac Express and the Island Express, but refrain from the removal of the vessels” from the Mill Slip in the Upper Peninsula town of St. Ignace.

Charging “breach of secured promissory notes, the plaintiffs want a “substitute custodian to take custody upon arrest of the vessels.”

In 2010, plaintiffs sold all of the stock of Union Terminal Piers to the defendant Haldimand Bay Company, LLC (HBC) – and that ultimately left HBC as the parent company of the Arnold Transport Company (ATC), the lawsuit states.

The 35-page lawsuits states HBC and ATC failed to make “principal and interest payments under the terms of the secured promissory notes” due on June 18, 2014. That principal and interest was just shy of $2 million on June 30, 2014, the lawsuit states.

The 20 plaintiffs are: The Marsha Rudolph Adams Revocable Trust (Marsha Rudolph Adams, trustee); Andrew C. Brown; Barbara J. Brown; the estate of Dorothy M. Brown; James J. Brown, Jr.; Linda M. Brown Trust (Linda M. Brown, trustee); Paul H. Brown; Paul W. Brown Trust (Paul W. Brown, trustee); Prentiss M. Brown; Prentiss M. Brown, Jr. Trust (Prentiss M. Brown, Jr., trustee); Robert B. Brown; Caroline Cheeseman; Sally Ann Herbon; Jim & Sis, LLC; Laing Family, LLC; Pajalco Incorporated; Patricia Jane Perry; Susan L. Pierson, and Ruth M. Visnaw.

The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Brian J. Page and Mark. D. van der Laan of Grand Rapids (Dykema Gossett law firm)

The plaintiffs specifically list parts of both the Mackinac Island ferry boats including “all masts, towers, boilers, cables, engines, machinery, sails, rigging, auxiliary boats, anchors, chains, tackle, apparel, bowsprits, furniture, fittings, tools, pumps, radar, and other electronic equipment and supplies, and other attachments and accessories.”

The lawsuit requests judgments against the Mackinac Express and the Island Express – so the plaintiffs can recover the $1,961,283 that they claim is owed. Federal civil action summons issued on August 19, 2014 for the defendants state the have 20 days from date of service to respond to the lawsuit.

Download lawsuit and related exhibits:

Filed 8-20-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $30 M lawsuit

Filed 8-20-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $30 M lawsuit

Filed 8-19-14 Marsha Rudolph Adams vs The Mackinac Express Summons Civil

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 8

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 7

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 6

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 5

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 4

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 3

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 2

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Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Complaint

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Photo of Mackinac Express

Mackinac Express, a catamaran passenger ferry of the Arnold Transit Company at Mackinac Island, Michigan.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyku/163104958

by Flickr user “hyku” on June 8, 2006

Arnold Transit Co.

PO Box 220

Mackinac Island, MI

49757

(800) 542-8528

(906) 847-3351

(906) 847-3892 (fax)

www.arnoldline.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Transit_Company

Arnold president: Ferry line will keep operating

Tues., April 29, 2014

By Ryan Bentley, Petosky News

(231) 439-9342

rbentley@petoskeynews.com

http://www.petoskeynews.com/featured-pnr/arnold-president-ferry-line-will-keep-operating/article_804fbfc8-8420-5d60-a423-5ee95c8f0c2a.html

Arnold Line may not ferry passengers to Mackinac Island this year

By Garret Ellison

gellison@mlive.com
Follow on Twitter
April 22, 2014/updated April 25, 2014

www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/04/arnold_mackinac.html

Others:

www.mackinawcity.com/mackinac-island-ferries-12

http://sheplersferry.com

www.mackinacferry.com

www.mackinacisland.org/transportation

All season long, Mackinac Island is serviced from both Mackinaw City and St. Ignace by three ferry companies:

Arnold Transit

Shepler’s Ferry

Star Line Ferry

A 16 to 30-minute trip, luggage service, parking at the ferry docks.

See each company for schedules and pricing

Arnold Transit Company

(800) 542-8528

(906) 847-3351

 

Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry

(800) 828-6157

231-436-5023

Star Line Ferry

(800) 638-9892

(906) 643-7635