Federal Bar schedules holiday party
The Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, will host its Holiday Party on Thursday, December 6 at the Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit.
The event, from 5-8 p.m., will feature hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and jazz performed by The Cat’s Pajamas.
Cost to attend is $35 for members and $40 for non-members.
To register online, visit www.fbamich.org and click on “Events.”
For additional information, contact Brian Figot at 248.594.5950 or email fbamich@fbamich.org.
State plans drunken driving patrols
LANSING (AP) — Michigan authorities say nearly 100 agencies in 20 counties will be conducting extra patrols targeting drunken drivers through Sunday.
The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning is coordinating the effort, which is supported by federal traffic safety funds.
Agencies in Berrien, Calhoun, Chippewa, Delta, Genesee, Houghton, Ingham, Jackson, Kent, Macomb, Marquette, Monroe, Oakland, Ogemaw, Ottawa, Saginaw, St. Clair, Van Buren, Washtenaw and Wayne counties are participating in the effort.
The enforcement effort is one of several sets of increased drunken driving patrols this year around holidays.
Woman gets probation for embezzlement
MOUNT CLEMENS (AP) — A 77-year-old woman has been sentenced to five years of probation for taking money from a Detroit-area church and has been ordered to repay $50,000.
Helen Gvozdich of Roseville was sentenced Tuesday in a Mount Clemens courtroom, avoiding the possibility of up to two years behind bars. She earlier pleaded guilty to embezzlement in an agreement with prosecutors. Court records say a judge also ordered her to perform community service.
The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens reports Gvozdich said afterward: “None of this is true.” She didn’t elaborate.
Authorities said that in 2008-2009 Gvozdich took money from St. Stevan Decanski Serbian Orthodox Church in Warren.
Defense lawyer E. Philip Adamaszek says his client failed to obtain receipts when she paid funds to church members who bought things for the church.
Man waives hearing in obese wife’s death
MOUNT CLEMENS (AP) — The husband of a 400-pound woman has waived a hearing on an abuse charge in her death.
Authorities say 37-year-old Michael Brooks ignored Yolanda Reese-Brooks and let her fester in a bed surrounded by her own waste. The 40-year-old Warren woman died of morbid obesity and other injuries last month.
The Macomb County prosecutor’s office says Brooks was his wife’s primary caretaker after she sustained a crushed pelvis and ruptured bladder in a 2011 auto wreck. She was extracted from their apartment by an emergency crew wearing protective gear.
Brooks is charged with second-degree abuse of a vulnerable adult.
The next court date in the case is set for December 17.
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