2016 Closing Sentences Berrien County Court
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$1 Thursday, December 29, 2016 Volume 147, Issue 77 One Section, 12 Pages 2016 CLOSING SENTENCES BERRIEN COUNTY COURT JoAnn Roberts Kenneth Mack Allen Ralph David Fink II April Marie Dawson Terry Stineback By DEBRA HAIGHT of probation. She embezzled mated their loss from having two area convenience stores His co-defendant, April the money from the sheriff’s to pay back a state blight were sentenced to prison in Marie Dawson, 30, of Long It was a busy year in area department after losing mon- elimination grant to be over the spring and early summer. Lake Road in Berrien Springs, courts once again in 2016 ey gambling at area casinos. $160,000. Ralph David Fink II, 39, of was sentenced in May to with people sentenced for The embezzlement occurred Kenneth Mack Allen, 73, of U.S. 12 in Niles, pleaded guilty two concurrent prison terms a variety of offenses rang- over a period of more than a Leach Road in Dowagiac, to 13 robbery and assault re- of three to 20 years for armed ing from embezzlement and year starting in August, 2014. pleaded guilty to attempted lated charges as a third time robbery and conspiracy to fraud to reckless driving, rob- Roberts had been em- larceny in a building and was habitual offender and was commit armed robbery. She bery and murder. ployed at the sheriff’s de- sentenced in Cass Circuit sentenced in June to a prison served as the getaway driv- January saw the sentenc- partment since 1998 as a jail Court to five years probation, term of 23 years to 50 years. er during the robberies. ing of a Buchanan woman population manager. She $1,858 in fines and costs and Fink’s past record included A Dowagiac man who who embezzled money resigned from that job in $80,000 in restitution. He has prior convictions for aggra- killed his wife after an argu- from the Berrien County November, 2015. In her job, credit for one day in jail al- vated robbery and in Ohio in ment in 2015 was sentenced Sheriff’s Department where she would prepare tether ready served. 2002 and for home invasion to prison in late July. she worked as the jail popu- collections for deposit with The incident occurred over in Cass County in 2000. Terry Stineback, 45, of Flan- lation manager. the county treasurer. She re- several months in 2014 during The armed robberies in Cass ders Street in Dowagiac, was JoAnn Roberts, 66, of Bu- moved cash from the tether which time Allen promised County occurred between convicted June 10 of sec- chanan pleaded guilty to collection envelopes and to transform an abandoned Sept. 29 and Oct. 20, 2015 at ond-degree murder, assault a felony count of embezzle- deposited the money to her storefront, the former Mr. K’s Sunrise Liquor on Huntly Road with intent to commit mur- ment over $20,000 and less own account. Wearhouse at 115 S. Front St., in Howard Township and at der and use of a firearm in than $50,000 and was sen- A Dowagiac area devel- in downtown Dowagiac into Lenny’s Marathon Station the commission of a felony. tenced in Berrien County oper was sentenced in Feb- a single-screen movie the- in Milton Township. Fink was He shot and killed his wife, Trial Court to five years pro- ruary in Cass Circuit Court ater with apartments on the armed with a knife in one in- Laura, May 12, 2015 inside bation, 270 days in jail and for defrauding the city of upper floor. stance and with a gun in an- their Dowagiac area home 500 hours of community ser- Dowagiac. City officials esti- An area couple who robbed other. with their young daughter a vice. The last 90 days of the short distance away. jail term can be served on Stineback was sentenced tether. to prison terms of 20 to 40 CIVIL COURT FILINGS 2 DEEDS 5 Roberts must pay $1,858 years for second-degree in fines and costs as well as murder, five to 20 years for $79,000 in restitution. Roberts assault with intent to murder was ordered not to enter FAMILY COURT FILINGS 2-4 BANKRUPTCIES 5 and two years for use of a any casino during her term firearm in the commission of a felony. The two murder RECORDED MORTGAGES 4 LEGAL NOTICES 5-10 sentences are concurrent, while the felony firearm sen- tence is consecutive. DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE 4-5 EDITORIAL 10-12 Continued on pg. 12 2 BERRIEN COUNTY RECORD, BUCHANAN, MICHIGAN DECEMBER 29, 2016 JUDGE SCHLOCK, 700 JOSHUA DONKERSLOOT PREMIER HOME FURNISHINGS V JUDGE SCHROCK 18TH & BROADWAY LLC V THOMAS LANDLORD TENANT HEARING LOUIS E SNOWDEN KEVIN P BANYON V DONALD JO- CIVIL COURT DAVIS ET AL 16-009749-LT - CJD SMALL CLAIMS HEARING SEPH LUNSFORD NILES, MICHIGAN LANDLORD TENANT HEARING JUDGE DONAHUE 16-009425-SC - CJD DISCOVERY HEARING 16-021875-LT - SRS THREE OAKS ESTATES LLC V ANN MAGISTRATE CLARK 15-006595-GC - SRS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2016 JUDGE SCHLOCK, 700 HAGAN PREMIER HOME FURNISHINGS V JUDGE SCHROCK 8:45 AM ART ZIMMER V CAMERON HARRI- LANDLORD TENANT HEARING LINDA COOK AMERICAN ACCEPTANCE CO LLC JD FINANCE V CORNELIOUS WIL- SON 16-009750-LT - SRS SMALL CLAIMS HEARING V ANGEL WILLIAMS LIAMS LANDLORD TENANT HEARING JUDGE DONAHUE 16-009426-SC - SRS OTSC HEARING AS TO THE GAR- SMALL CLAIMS HEARING 16-021876-LT - CJD THREE OAKS ESTATES LLC V MI- MAGISTRATE CLARK NISHEE DEF/WRC HOLDINGS 16-021640-SC - DAP JUDGE SCHLOCK, 700 CHAEL TAYLOR FREDERICK MONROE V TANGA 14-009663-GC - SRS MAGISTRATE CLARK, 806 VINEES ESKANDER V SHERRY LANDLORD TENANT HEARING ANN RAY JUDGE SCHLOCK JD FINANCE V TYLER OLENEACK- BRIGHT 16-009751-LT - CJD SMALL CLAIMS HEARING NATIONAL COLLEGIATE STU- BYBEE LANDLORD TENANT HEARING JUDGE DONAHUE 16-009431-SC - SRS DENT LOAN TRUST 2006-1 SMALL CLAIMS HEARING 16-021894-LT - CJD OWEN CRAIG ET AL V NORMA MAGISTRATE CLARK V DONNICE STYBURSKI ET AL 16-021641-SC - DAP JUDGE SCHLOCK, 700 CLARK PLANGGERS FURNITURE V MARY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE MAGISTRATE CLARK, 806 JOHN SCHMIDT V ROBERT SUN- LANDLORD TENANT HEARING BUFORD 16-008898-GC - CJD GREATER NILES CREDIT UNION DAY ET Al 16-009752-LT - SRS SMALL CLAIMS HEARING JUDGE DONAHUE, 307 V ZACHARY JOSEPH MITSCHEL- LANDLORD TENANT HEARING JUDGE DONAHUE 16-009459-SC - CJD EN 16-021895-LT - SRS ERIC YORK V KIMYATA WILLIAMS MAGISTRATE CLARK SMALL CLAIMS HEARING JUDGE SCHLOCK, 700 LANDLORD TENANT HEARING PLANGGERS FURNITURE V VERNA FAMILY COURT 16-021710-SC - DAP JOHN SCHMIDT V THOMAS PULL- 16-009774-LT - SRS ADAMS ST. 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