Court Watching: Romulus teen bound over for breaking & entering in Sumpter

By Rosemary K. Otzman
Independent Editor
Speed Marcel Miller, 17, of Romulus was bound over to circuit court on charges of breaking and entering of a building in Sumpter Township, two counts of receiving and concealing stolen property, and one count of larceny from a building.
His preliminary exam was set for July 23 at 34th District Court in Romulus and Miller waived his exam.
Judge Tina Brooks Green ordered Miller to appear at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit on Aug. 6 for an arraignment on the information.
Miller’s bond was $20,000/10% and he was lodged in the Wayne County Jail and bonded out shortly after the bond was set.
Sumpter Police Detective John Toth said the break in was reported just after midnight on July 12 in the 20000 block of Sumpter Road. He said two John Deere Gators were taken, along with a minibike.
Det. Toth said because of the respect in the community for the victims, a large number of tips came into the police department and the owner received a tip that his Gator was seen at Crosswinds Marsh that morning.
By 10 a.m., Miller and a juvenile were in custody and the stolen items in hand, including one Gator that had been sold at Crosswinds Marsh.
He said Sumpter Officer Jerry Cox and new Sumpter Officer Ryan Parise worked together to bring the suspects in.
Det. Toth said Van Buren Township Detective Mark Buxton had other items allegedly taken by the two and VBT had recovered a camper the suspects allegedly had stolen.
Devon Lamar Mayes
Hyo Sang Rogers
Devon Lamar Mayes and Hyo Sang Rogers each have been charged with two counts of armed robbery, two counts of assault, and weapons charges and are being held in the Wayne County Jail on bonds of $100,000/10% each.
They have been charged in the July 11 armed robbery of Montroy’s Market, at the corner of Van Born and Haggerty roads in Van Buren Township.
They each have a court-appointed attorney and the prosecutor’s office had asked that they be kept in separate holding cells, but when they were brought to the 34th District Court for their preliminary exams on July 23, they inadvertently were put in the same cell.
They were separated in Judge Green’s courtroom and then put in separate holding cells after the court session.
The two were brought before the judge separately, but the request was the same: both the prosecutor and the defense attorneys said they needed more time for discovery – to compile the evidence in the cases.
Judge Green gave them each three weeks and they will be back before her at 9 a.m., Aug. 13.
VBT Police Lt. Ken Floro said the two were arrested after a photo lineup was set up and the victims identified both suspects. Lt. Floro said the photo lineup was put together based on information from the license plate, records from the CLEMIS (Courts and Law Enforcement Information Management System), and information from the City of Taylor, where both men reside.
Detective Mark Buxton is the officer in charge of both cases.
Jeremy Allen Sneyd
Jeremy Allen Sneyd, 27, waived his preliminary exam and Judge Green bound him over to circuit court for arraignment on the information on Aug. 6.
Sneyd is accused of home invasion – first degree in Van Buren Township on July 15, 2012. His court-appointed attorney was George Chedraue and the officer in charge is VBT Detective McCarthy.
Sneyd has two co-defendants in the case. Robert Norman Stark, 53, pled guilty to second-degree home invasion. He was to be sentenced Aug. 7. Randy Eli Black, 43, has a jury trial set for Aug. 13 for first degree home invasion, following a final conference Aug. 1.
First-degree home invasion is a 20-year felony.
Melvin Carl Foster
The charge of malicious destruction of property against Melvin Carl Foster was dismissed by the prosecutor’s office before Foster’s preliminary exam was due to begin on July 23. Sumpter Township Officer Michael Lange was the officer in charge. Foster was on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond that the judge cancelled.
Darrell Demetrius Brown
Darrell Demetrius Brown, 21, who was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and being in possession of a controlled substance, marijuana, was bound over to circuit court after he waived his preliminary exam. He had posted 10% of his $5,000 bond.
Brown’s court-appointed attorney was George Chedraue and the officers in charge were VBT Officers Champagne and Herrick.
Sharreaf Martinez Pugh
Sharreaf Martinez Pugh was charged with domestic violence by VBT Police and he had been scheduled at district court several times since the April incident.
On July 23 he entered a guilty plea to domestic violence. If he doesn’t get into trouble in the next nine months, the charge will be dismissed, Judge Green said.
Pugh said on April 18 in VBT he assaulted Alisa Armstead, with whom he had a relationship.
He will pay $500 in fines and provide proof of anger management classes. He is to have no assaultive contact with the victim. His court-appointed attorney was Jeffrey Bowdich.
Harris McCloud
Harris McCloud changed her not-guilty misdemeanor plea to a guilty-as-charged plea, with consideration through HYTA (Holmes Youthful Trainee Act). Judge Green put her on non-reporting probation for a year.
McCloud said that between June 29 and early July she was employed at the Belleville Road Meijer’s and took property from the store. She will pay $707 restitution, and $1,107 total fees.