Iditarod in Nome, Alaska
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Check out local faces at local events in xurn and online every day March 2,2008 75 cents WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com about BY DARRELL CLEM and clients. living with them at Woodcrest when she lied about being raped Their allegations triggered a • Ference Cicirelli to order the OBSERVER STAFF WRITER Kelly Brenda Davis, 17, accused "Villa Apartments on the city's by a customer, in hopes of getting criminal investigation that result defendants to stand trial in the couple of posting her nude north side. time off work. ed in Lloyd and Henley being Wayne County Circuit Court. The A teenage prostitute testi pictures on Craigslist and driving "They asked me to lie about "Davina said I'd end up dead arrested at the Fairfield Inn in charges against them are punish fied in explicit detail Thursday her to meet customers who paid , niy age," Davis testified during a in an alley if I lied to her" Davis Canton and arraigned in January able by up to 20 years in prison, if how she worked for a Westland $200 or more for sex. Davis said prdiminary hearing in Westland said. on multiple prostitution-related they are convicted. couple charged with using the she was only 16 when she worked 18th District Court. She finally confessed to her charges. Lloyd faces trial for child Internet to arrange sex-for-pay for Davina Shirley Lloyd, 26, and Davis accused Lloyd of slap mother, who lives in Detroit, and Davis' testimony prompted trysts between young women Lanard Mack Henley, 24, while ping her and threatening her they went to Westland police. 18th District Judge Sandra Please see HEARING, A3 It's an incredible place, it's definitely God's country' Civic league pays $11,000 in The Lv>! Grert flacc 1049 m'ies taxes, avoids foreclosure BY DARRELL CLEM up. OBSERVER STAFF WRITER "We expect to take care of those (remaining back taxes) soon so A Westland nonprofit organi that(we're not in the same predica > » -» zation has averted a threatened ment next year" with a foreclosure foreclosure by paying thousands of threat, Barra said. dollars on its delinquent tax bills, Bingo players have started an official said. returning to the civic league, he With an uptick in bingo rev said. c" I enues, Wayne-Ford Civic League "Business has been good for the President Vic Barra saiet he man last quarter," he said. "The bingo .\ "' -A '•* 1* . aged Wednesday to pay $11,000 in crowds are again warming up to back taxes from 2005. the civic league." - tr.T It- f';n£:v..'Z Sl&vf&W Wayne County had threatened The league will now have a to foreclose on the civic league year to catch up on the remain for unpaid water and street-light ing $4,500 it owes in back taxes ing bills that got slapped onto before the possible threat of fore the organization's tax bills. The closure. The league, established league sponsors youth athletics in 1952, is located on Wayne Road and senior programs, and it offers south of Ford. a hall for rentals for weddings, Barra said the league's problems political parties and other events. have made him sympathetic to "The civic league is no longer in homeowners and other property threat of foreclosure," Barra told owners who have been foreclosed. the Observer on Wednesday. "It's been very stressful on me Barra had told the newspaper having this burden hanging over last November, when a story was my head," he said, adding later, published about the organization's "My heart goes out to all the financial woes, that the civic families and businesses who find league was "gradually climbing themselves in the situation the Jon Kimble (second from right) joins the Trail Breakers for a picture underneath the finish line of the 2007 Iditarod in Nome, Alaska. that mountain of debt." civic league was in. I'm glad that He conceded that the league still the civic league will be able to con owes $4,500 on back taxes from tinue youth sports and senior pro 2006, "and 2007 isn't even on the grams in the upcoming year." radar," but he predicted the orga as Iditarod Trail Breaker nization will ultimately get caught [email protected] I (734) 953-2110 BY SUE MASON OBSERVER STAFF WRITER At 2 p.m. Alaska time today, 96 mushers will head out in what's been called the last great race on earth, the 2008 Iditarod. They'll follow a more than 1,150- mile trail stretching from Wasilla in southern Alaska BY DARRELL CLEM could potentially bring a lengthier to Nome on the coast of the Bering Sea. OBSERVER STAFF WRITER sentence because he is considered But they won't be blazing a new trail through some a repeat offender. of Alaska's roughest terrain. That job is being handled A Westland man charged with Perkins was released from pris by a team of vol molesting his great-niece when she on in June 1991 after he served 3% unteers on snow was only 6 years old will face trial years for molesting a nephew who, machines who are in Wayne County Circuit Court. along with the nephew's mother, makirig the trail Raymond Lawrence Perkins, now lives in Perkins's residence along the Iditarod's 55, faces trial after he voluntarily on Alberta, in the city's Norwayne northern route. waived his preliminary hearing neighborhood. The mother has "We try to stay a Thursday in front of Westland 18th told authorities that Perkins has good day, day and a District Judge Sandra Ference been forgiven. half a head of them," Cicirelli. His decision averted tes Perkins also has confessed to said John Kimble, timony from the girl, who is now sexually molesting two other a former Westland 12. nieces and one nephew years resident who's in Perkins was arraigned Feb. 5 on ago, Mathews has said in court. his second year as two counts of second-degree crim However, he can't be charged for an Iditarod Trail inal sexual conduct after the girl those allegations because no one Breaker. "We have came forward in December and came forward before the statute of to make the trail so told police she remembered being limitations had expired, she said. the dogs don't have molested six years earlier. She told Mathews, who has investigated Jon Kimble to plow through deep authorities she was asleep and sex crimes for seven years, called snow." woke up to find Perkins fondling the Perkins case among the worst The Iditarod TrailBreakers have been described her, police Sgt. Debra Mathews of its kind that she has seen. as some of the most hard-core snowmobilers in the has said in court. "It's one of the worst I've seen in world. They make a "highway" across Alaska every Perkins, who is jailed in lieu of sheer number of victims," she said. a $1 million bond, is charged with Please see IDITAROD, A3 a 15-year felony, but a conviction [email protected] I (734) 953-2110 5 The Observer , & Eccentric INDEX We beat For Home Newspapers APARTMENTS D2 any offer Delivery call: AUTOMOTIVE C5 Volume 43 CLASSIFIED C6-D6 (866) 887-273.7 Number 80 * Up to 60 Months** HEALTH 85. AT&T-' HOMETOWNUFE CI Wireless * No Down Payment JOBS ' C6 - «-• * No Payment for 90 days NEW HOMES D1 Only at the OBITUARIES C4 *APB = Annual Percentage Rate. "71 month term available on vehides of OPINION A7 515,000 ormoie as kw as 6/)0% AM. Credit Income and collateral j.-:rzf requirements apply. This offer may end at any time. REAL ESTATE D2 Ford & Merriman Rd 0 SPORTS B! Garden Ctty GAINNETT 734.421.8000 (W) Observer S Eccentric [ Sunday, March 2,2008 LOCAL NEWS ' www.hometownlife.com Lifesaver: Fruit 0 LPS grad who lived nearby charged wins MADD's state award in Webster arson, four others BY REBECCA JONES cash or surety. Sonoma, parked in the same BY DARRELLCLEM OBSERVER STAFF WRITER A preliminary block of Nola was similarly dam OBSERVER STAFF WRITER exam was set aged. The Livonia police's new The suspect in the Webster for March 11. K-9 unit, Gandalf, was called Westland Police Officer Elementary School arson was Carlson is a to the scene and led police to Robert Fruit is the kind of cop supposed to start a new job on -V 1993 graduate Carlson's door. who makes drunken drivers Friday. Instead, he faced a judge of Churchill It appears that he acted alone see red. on five felony counts. High School in all of these cases, police said. Donald Carlson, 32, faces two, and lived in the Police said Carlson, who is His skills at arresting them Carlson make others take notice. 10-year felony charges and three, neighborhood currently on probation for lar Fruit earned a LifeSaver five-year felonies for alleged off Lyndon west of Newburgh ceny from a vehicle, did not offer Award in February as Mothers arsons or arson attempts that where the arsons occurred. a motive in this case. "He has no Against Drunk Driving hon Westland Police Officer Robert Fruit (left), who won a LifeSaver Award from occurred between Dec. 12 and Livonia police caught him grudges against the school dis ored nine officers from across Mothers Against Drunk Driving, also receives a proclamation from state Sen. Feb. 28, includingthe Feb. 18 Thursday. trict," Winn said. Michigan during a ceremony Gienn Anderson, D-Westiand, during a MADD banquet in Lansing.