Five men in jail on assault charges – three sentenced and two busted in Delta and Marquette counties – Imagine how many people were arrested on very serious charges in other U.P. counties but the arrests are kept secret

URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 2-7-18 – 2:22 a.m. ET

Recent assault arrests/sentencings in the Escanaba, Gladstone, Marquette and Gwinn, Michigan areas

Some ask why do we do these DV and other assault stories – its because seriously injuring others is way, way, way out of control across the U.P. – and we give you a glance at just two counties – Since when did it become OK to brutalize others? If you are in a violent relationship – boot the bum whether its man or woman

Jeremiah A. Bostick

Matthew Emanuelson

John Paul Bichler

Francis “Frank” John Tourangeau

Joshua John Myers

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

(Marquette/Escanaba, MI) – Two men have been charged and three sentenced so far this week for assaults in Delta and Marquette Counties.
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Jeremiah A. Bostick

25-year-old Jeremiah A. Bostick of Gwinn, MI was booked into the Marquette County Jail (MCJ) at 5:02 p.m. on Monday night, Feb. 5, 2018.

Bostick is charged with felony assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.

He has past addresses in North Carolina and Ohio.

Details of the alleged attack have not been released by police.

Bond has not been set for Bostick.

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Matthew Emanuelson

22-year-old Matthew Emanuelson of Ishpeming, MI was booked into the Marquette County Jail at 2:17 a.m. on Monday morning, Feb. 5, 2018.

Emanuelson is charged with felonious assault.

Details of the case have not been released by police.

Bond has not been set for Emanuelson.

 

 

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Separate cases: Three Escanaba area men convicted of brutalizing three Escanaba area residents including pregnant woman – are back behind bars this morning – two in the county jail and one off to state prison

They are Escanaba area residents John Bichler, Joshua Meyers and Francis Tourangeau.

The trio were sentenced by Delta County Circuit Court Judge John Economopoulos.

 

John Paul Bichler

34-year-old John Paul Bichler of Escanaba, MI was sent to jail Monday for assaulting a pregnant woman in Jan. 2017 in Masonville Township, MI.
Michigan State Police busted Bichler on numerous felony charges for the Jan. 21, 2017 assault and told to stay away from the victim.
The relatively light jail sentence is because a jury only convicted him on a high level misdemeanor.
Bichler began serving a 93-day sentence on Monday in the Delta County Detention Center (DCDC).
He was sent to jail after sentencing but was officially booked into the DCDC at 8:08 p.m. Monday night, Feb. 5, 2018.
He was sentenced Monday in Delta County Circuit Court.
Bichler was convicted in Dec. 2017 of assaulting a person known to be pregnant.
Bichler was found not guilty of two more serious charges.
He was found not guilty by the jury of 10-year felony assault by strangulation and of the two-year felony interfering with electronic communications.
Bichler was sentenced on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018.

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Francis “Frank” John Tourangeau

A Gladstone, MI man was sent to jail for eight months in jail for severely injuring a man’s eye during a felony aggravated assault in March 2017.

30-year-old Francis “Frank” John Tourangeau was also placed on two years probation, and ordered to pay over $2,000 in fines/costs, plus pay nearly $3,500 in medical expense restitution, and banned from using alcohol/drugs.
He is allowed to do work release but will get random screens for drugs/booze. Tourangeau was ordered to have no contact with two victims, must complete in depth anger management treatment, can’t possess weapons, can’t become aggressive and must allow random searches of his home.
A jury convicted Tourangeau in November 2017 of aggravated assault by infliction of a serious injury, a one-year misdemeanor. He was found not guilty of other more serious 10-year felonies – assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and assault by strangulation,
Tourangeau was officially was booked into the DCDC at 2:53 p.m. on Mon., Feb. 5, 2018.
During his court appearances in 2017 Tourangeau listed addresses in Escanaba and Gladstone.
Tourangeau was ordered to have no contact with the injured male victim and the female involved in the case.
Meanwhile, Tourangeau pleaded no contest to a disorderly person charge in 2017 and got probation and a small fine.

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Joshua John Myers

And the third sentencing was for a knife attack in Delta County.
An a Delta County man will spend two to four years in state prison for a knife fight in August 2017.
34-year-old Joshua John Myers of Escanaba, MI is off to state prison this morning
A 26-year-old Escanaba resident received a superficial knife wound to the throat during the August 21, 2017 armed battle.
The assault happened on 2nd Avenue South in Escanaba, MI
Officers from the Escanaba Department of Public Safety arrested Meyers at a nearby home.
Eventually, Meyers confessed he assaulted the victim and in a plea bargain – prosecutors dismiss other charges including habitual offender and a 10-year felony. Meyers has an extensive criminal history.

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Jeremiah A. Bostick

Matthew Emanuelson

John Paul Bichler

Francis “Frank” John Tourangeau

Joshua John Myers

Well-known Democrat and union activist Jack LaSalle files complaint against one of his own – State Rep. Sarah Cambensy: It’s surprising that two top Democratic leaders would fight over about six grand – or maybe they did not expect their money dispute to leak

U.P. Breaking News Bulletin 1-22-18 – 6:15 p.m. ET 

Kramer vs Kramer – ooops – Dem vs. Dem

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

(Marquette, Michigan) – Just when you thought the fight over the 109th was over – it erupts.
The battle lines are being drawn between two well-known democrats – all over about six grand.

At issue is money that consummate Democrat Jack LaSalle’s company says it is owed by the campaign of Sara Cambensy – who was elected to the 109th Michigan House Seat in a special election last November.

LaSalle Enterprise Services, a limited liability company (LLC) filed the complaint in district court against State Rep. Sara Cambensy.

The “summons and complaint” was filed on Dec. 28, 2017 in Marquette County 96th District Court.

LaSalle is perhaps best known as a decades-long field representative for the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council. He started in January of 1986.

The complaint states LaSalle’s company is in the business of “providing election services to prospective candidates for political office.” The company is owned by LaSalle and his wife, Jeanne I. LaSalle. The company states it provided “campaign and election services” to Cambensy during the “primary election and General Election in 2017.”
The bill to Cambensy is $5,690 plus “interest, costs, and reasonable attorney’s fees.”

Below is a little background on both Dems

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P.S. – While unrelated – this makes us wonder if some who provide “elections services” in the U.P. also include dirt files on other politicians like we’ve heard in the infamous Trump dossier. The answer – of course its a famous part of political intrigue in America.

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Jon G. “Jack” LaSalle
LaSalle Enterprise Services, a limited liability company (LLC)
1842 Niedhart Avenue
Marquette, MI
(Filed by Marquette attorney William B. Ferns)

vs.

Sara Cambensy
225 W. Washington Street
Apt. 3
Marquette, MI

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Jon G. “Jack” LaSalle:
Jack LaSalle – he is everything Democrat and Union in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – including served on NMU Board of Trustees, Representative fpr the Michigan Labor and Trades Council – political activist for democrats. You name it (anything Democrat/Pro-Union), he’s done it
If his profile from 12-years ago is impressive in this NMU press release look what he’d done by then.
http://www.nmu.edu/boardoftrustees/jon-g-jack-lasalle
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Sarah Cambensy was elected – by some as a breath of fresh air – with few obligations to the powerful.
Her victory – and entire race – was tempered by the reason for the special election.
http://www.housedems.com/cambensy/about
http://electsaracambensy.com

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Sara Cambensy was elected to the U.P. state house seat with aout 56 percent of the votes to 42 percent over Republican/Marquette School Board member Rich Rossway

A special primary was held prior to the November 2017 general election in the four county race for 109th District, in the wake of the tragic suicide of late Rep. John Kivela, who sadly killed himself in May after his arrest for drunken driving in the Lansing area

Democrats running were:
Then Marquette City Commission Sara Campensy
Limestone Township Supervisor Tom Curry
Marquette County Commissioner Joe Derocha
Jeremy Hosking, who had served as regional manager for U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow
The lone Republican was Marquette school board member Rich Rossway, TV marketing executive/Member of the Marquette Brownfield Redevelopment Authority

U.P. Breaking News Exclusive: Officials tight-lipped after Marquette, MI woman arrested in alleged felony extortion investigation

U.P. Extortion Probe Arrest

Katheryn White shows peace sign

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

(Marquette, MI) – At least one Marquette resident has been arrested in connection with an Upper Peninsula extortion investigation, U.P. Breaking News has learned.

The investigation led to at least one arrest yesterday in Marquette County.

A 49-year-old Marquette woman made bond yesterday (Thurs., Oct. 27, 2016) after being accused of alleged felony extortion.

Police arrested Kathryn Marie White of 316 E. Crescent St. in Marquette, MI. White was taken into custody at her residence. A check shows she was released on bond – though details of that bond – or the exact nature of the allegations – have not yet been released.

It is not clear – who or what entity – is the “victim” of the alleged extortion – and the charge if not oft used.
In fact, even compared to the filing of a state murder charge in the U.P., a state extortion charge is rarer – minimum 50 to one.

Marquette County Prosecutor Matt Weise won’t be back until next week, according to officials in his office. Those officials declined to release any information when U.P. Breaking News provided a name and the charge – and instructed us to check back next week.

U.P. Breaking News left a message for Marquette Police Department Captain of Detectives Mike Kohler.

U.P. Breaking News attempted to contact White.
White is listed as he registered agent of a limited liability corporation (LLC) she formed in Nov. 2013 named “Bianchetti White LLC,’ according to online websites that follow the creation of state of Michigan corporations.

Recently a northern Michigan businessman was arrested on an extortion charge – however a judge dismissed the case and that decision is being appealed by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.

Past extortion cases in Marquette were federal investigations.

One U.P. extortion case involved a Hollywood celebrity . In that federal extortion case, two Marquette residents served four years in federal prison for trying to extort $680,000 from Actor John Stamos. In Oct. 2010, Scott Edward Sippola, 31, and Allison Lenore Coss, 24, both of Marquette, Michigan, were each sentenced to four years in federal prison after being found guilty of multiple federal felonies. Both were released from federal prison in March 2014.

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Marquette County Prosecutor Matt J. Wiese

Courthouse Annex
234 West Baraga Avenue
Marquette, Michigan  49855
(906) 225-8310

http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/departments/prosecutor_s_office/index.php#.WBJlMCRyyRk

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Marquette County 96th District Court

234 W. Baraga Avenue
Marquette, MI 49855

http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/departments/courts/district_court/#.WBMwzyRyyRk

(906) 225-8235

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Marquette Police Department Captain of Detectives Mike Kohler

http://www.mqtcty.org/police-admin.php

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State of Michigan – Extortion statutes/law information as provided on the website of a Lower Peninsula lawfirm – Rumschlag Law, PLC in downstate Birmingham, MI

On April 3rd, 2014, the Michigan Supreme Court held that the crime of extortion does not require analysis of “the seriousness or significance of the compelled act” under MCL 750.213 and partially overruled two Michigan Court of Appeals decisions.

In People v Harris, Docket No. 146212, the Michigan Supreme Court first summarized the prior proceedings in the case:

Under the plain language of the extortion statute, MCL 750.213, extortion occurs when a defendant maliciously threatens to injure another person with the intent to compel that person to do any act against his or her will, without regard to the seriousness or significance of the compelled act, overruling People v Fobb, 145 Mich App 786 (1985), and People v Hubbard (After Remand), 217 Mich App 459 (1996), to the extent that those decisions required that the act or omission compelled by the defendant be of serious consequence to the victim.

Under the plain language of the extortion statute, the crime of extortion is complete when a defendant (1) either orally or by a written or printed communication, maliciously threatens (2) to accuse another of any crime or offense, or to injure the person or property or mother, father, spouse or child of another (3) with the intent to extort money or any pecuniary advantage whatever, or with the intent to compel the person threatened to do or refrain from doing any act against his or her will.

The Court of Appeals decisions in Fobb and Hubbard, which held that the act demanded of the victim must have been of serious consequence to the victim in order to convict a defendant of extortion, are contrary to the plain language of the statute.

A statute may be challenged for vagueness on three grounds:

(1) that it fails to provide fair notice of the conduct proscribed

(2) that it is so indefinite that it confers on the trier of fact unstructured and unlimited discretion to determine whether an offense has been committed

(3) that its coverage is overbroad and impinges on First Amendment protections.

Rumschlag Law, PLC

280 N. Old Woodward Avenue, Suite 13

Birmingham, MI 48009

248-593-9170

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(44ecnfek1ww1oflllcv0qlaz))/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&objectname=mcl-750-213

http://www.michbar.org/file/opinions/appeals/2003/011403/17667.pdf

http://www.rumschlaglaw.com/rumschlag/2014/4/5/michigan-supreme-court-holds-extortion-does-not-require-anal.html

Recent northern Michigan extortion case

http://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/no-bind-over-for-extortion-case/article_8a3764f2-f49b-5c28-ab0c-c155fa1281c8.html

http://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/ag-appeals-extortion-case-dismissal/article_d16df8e1-bd16-5b1b-a514-c7318c147823.html

Marquette’s Famous Extortion Case

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/detroit/press-releases/2010/de100810.htm

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/detroit/press-releases/2010/de071510.htm

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/marquette_couple_convicted_in.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/john-stamos-alleged-blackmailers-scott-sippola-allison-coss-new-charge-extortion-case-article-1.167853