Fraud Case of $ 3.9 million, Commissioner was eliminated from the meeting and other news from Bay County

Bay County, MI – the owner of a Bay City car dealer has disappeared for more than a month and has reappeared – is now accused in a fraud case of $ 3.9 million.

Meanwhile, a Bay City commissioner had to be escorted from a meeting this week after verbally attacked a colleague.

These titles and many more are lower in this week’s rounding of Bay County News, you may have missed.

Michigan car dealer, poker champion was accused of a fraud of $ 3.9 million after alleged kidnapping

At the end of 2023, the owner of a Bay City car dealer disappeared for more than a month. When he presented on a rural road, bleeding and tied to the zipper, he claimed that he was abducted by a Mexican cartel who has given him for many years.

The apparent card targeted the man with their rocket because he is a six -digit poker champion player.

However, the abduction could have been a smoke screen, made by kidnapping to cover its car multimiliar loan scheme. It is a remarkably similar theory to the Class Classic Thriller plot ”Fargo“Although in the 1996 film, the character who deals with William H. Macy’s cars puts his wife’s abduction rather than his.

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Commissioner Bay City has been removed from the meeting after verbal attack

A Bay City commissioner was escorted from the City Hall by the police on Monday evening, after he verbally attacked another commissioner. However, she will not face any formal reprimand for previous attacks against him in e -mails and socializing posts.

Andrea Burney-Obershaw, who represents Bay City’s 3rd room, laughed while she was out of the chambers of the City Hall by an officer and the director of the Public Safety Department, Caleb Rowell.

Despite the fact that she was eliminated from the building, a vote to censor because she made the comments that determined her that her outburst failed with 4-3. Chris Runberg, Joseph Charlebois and Alex Dewitt commissioners voted against censorship.

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Why Bay City cannot only give out the controversial bridge operator

During a meeting of the City Commission, in which the divisive topics, from the application of immigration, the conduct of the commissioner and what to do with the aging of the public safety infrastructure were discussed, there was a topic that everyone in the room could agree: the city is tired of Bay City Bridge Partners.

Despite this fact – as well as calls, from the aggressive and distant plane to give the private company responsible for two of the Bay City bridges in the city and more reasonable, although a challenging task of boycott the two taxes of the city – Bay City could be related when it comes to his bridge fight.

“It was mentioned in the previous sessions that” why not cancel it? Get out of town? “Said Commissioner 1 of the Section Stephen Prince. “If we were to do this, we should repay their investment in bridges, which would be what, $ 200 million?”

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Bay City Bridge partners, target a class of class action to reimburse the taxes, conclude taxes

Controversies and protests have appeared in recent weeks on the two Bay City charges and their fluctuating costs. In the middle of this, two lawyers filed a class of class action against the corporation operating Bridges and Bay City itself.

Lawyers Matthew B. Hewitt and Philip L. Ellison on Tuesday, March 4, submitted the action at the Bay County Circuit court against Bay Bridge Partners and Bay City. The costume lists eight applicants living in the city of Bangor, Essexville, Kawkawlin and Auburn.

The trial asks a judge to order BCBP to give up and to return all collected taxes, to find that BCBP has misled the public in relation to the nature and cost of its taxation system and emit a judgment order except BCBP to continue its current practices.

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Bay City Man accused of abandoning cats during frosting

A man in Bay City is experiencing an offense because he had abandoned a bump of cats in frigid weather. How did investigators develop as a suspect? The felines were left in a box bearing his address.

On the morning of January 15, a security guard from Michigan Sugar Co. noticed a fluffy white cat -black dressed on a fence to protect himself from ice in a parking Sugar routes from Michigan on the island of Middlegrounds. The guard approached the cat and found a cardboard box and a larger pet carrier containing several cats.

The cardboard box contained four kittens against the background of dirty blankets and filled animals, while the carrier had two kittens and three adults, according to the reports contained in the court files.

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Mymichigan health clinic in Bay City Meijer among those who close 31 March

A non -profit health system with the headquarters in the middle of the Michigan closes some of its clinics in force on March 31, asking patients to look for services at one of the urgent care facilities around the company.

Mymichigan Health, which is based in Midland and has clinics in the entire state, interrupts its clinics in Bay City, West Branch and Sault. Marie, according to a press release issued by the company on Tuesday, March 4. The health system redirects patients to the nearest MyMichigan urgent care, community care unit or their main case provider.

The employees on the ezcare sites will be offered a job in other locations, said a company spokesman.

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Traditional Paczki, Polka Live Music attracts Krzysiak lovers in Bay City Tuesday

Five o’clock in the morning it may seem early for Polka dance, breakfast and enjoying the annual treatment of Paczki, but it is not for those who participate in Polka-Paloosis on the South Day.

Krzysiak’s House restaurant, 1605 Michigan Ave., welcomed all the smiling faces on the fat on Tuesday, March 4, whether they raised a few tens of Paczki or lunch to enjoy the Live Polka band.

Shawna Tripp, an employee of the restaurant in Krzysiak, about 13, said the staff had been occupied on Monday evening, March 3, making thousands of Paczki.

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Garber high school teaches teenagers to be handy homeowners

Students at Garber High School can change their textbooks for safety tools and glasses when they register for the new school maintenance elective.

The new class, led by Professor Garber Nick Hugo, learns the nuts and screws of the home maintenance projects, as well as a level of car -sufficiency that can approach problems on their own, learning and developing abilities.

“Children need to know the basic skills,” Hugo said. “You have a broken output, you have a connected toilet … You will need to know all these things. I know there is youtube and it is great to always be, but to have these set of basic skills, so you know and be safe and you can repair some things (it is important). “

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Bay City’s coffee scene evolves as the inherited coffee replaces the population

Inside 810 Saginaw St. from Downtown Bay City could not look much different than he did a month ago. But for Kassy Fifer, the 28-year-old woman who recently took over the site, the change will come during her just start.

Fifer raised the keys for what was the former population coffee a month ago. It will reopen on Saturday, March 8, as a inherited coffee. The name pays a tribute to the inheritance left by the population and serves as a knot to the inheritance, a restored historical building located in the heart of the Fifer center.

“There is a lot to do, but get there,” Fifer said. “A kind of oscillated between the emotional and” this I had to do “, compared to the overwhelming and” here is this long list and continues to grow. ” But it is as if you realize that a lot of things I can do after opening and we like to ite. At this moment, it is a problem to put things in place and to do so we can open. “

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Votes the “welcoming community” resolution submitted by Bay City Commission

The commissioners of the city Monday, March 3, have submitted a vote on a controversial problem by the end of this month.

Commissioner Bay City, Chris Runberg, from the seventh section of the city, mentioned the absence of another commissioner to move to vote on his proposal, which would consider the city as a “welcoming community” for people, regardless of their immigration status.

“I feel that a problem with this magnitude, based on the answer we had from our community, suggests that we should have all our commissioners present before having a vote on it,” Runberg said.

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Mayor Bay City launches healthy minds, healthy body initiative

The mayor invites the residents to join the future St. Patrick Day races, as part of his new healthy minds, the Healthy Body initiative.

Chris Girard announced the project on Friday, February 28, at a press conference that also detailed the program for future Bay St. Patrick’s Day. Girard invites people to enroll in the non-competitive 5-kilometer walk, scheduled for stage at 10:45 on Sunday, March 16th.

“St. Patrick’s Day races are more than just a competition,” Girard said. “I am a memory of the power of movement, perseverance and connection between physical and mental well -being.”

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