Court Watching: Gilbert Evans, 18, waives preliminary exam on B&E charge

By Rosemary K. Otzman
Independent Editor
Gilbert Redfield Evans, 18, of Sumpter Township who is accused of breaking and entering into Sumpter Market, waived his preliminary exam on Sept. 17 and was bound over for trial at Circuit Court.
34th District Court Judge Brian A. Oakley ordered Evans to appear at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit at 9 a.m. Oct. 1 for an arraignment on the information.
Evans bond of $10,000 or 10% was continued. He has posted the bond and a public defender is representing him.
Evans is accused of breaking the glass in a door at the north side of the market, at the corner of Sumpter and Willis roads, in the early morning hours of Aug. 28.
Sumpter Police Det./Cpl. John Toth said the market had a surveillance video that showed the intruder and when police were investigating the break-in, Evans showed up at the store and obviously matched the face on the video.
Det./Cpl. Toth said when Evans came back to the store, the clerk went and got owner Joe Nasser who had come in early to clean up the glass. Nasser decided that Evans was the intruder and grabbed onto him and held him for police. Evans was interviewed and arrested.
Anthony Giles Crawford
The preliminary exam for Anthony Giles Crawford, 48, was adjourned until Oct. 8.
Crawford is charged with operating while intoxicated – 3rd; driving while license suspended – 2nd; and failure to stop at the scene of a property damage accident with an attended vehicle. All these offenses happened July 18, 2012 in Sumpter Township.
Crawford’s bond was $5,000 or 10% and he was lodged in the Wayne County Jail. His court-appointed attorney is David Kessel. Officer in charge is Det./Cpl. John Toth.
Hani Chafie Dahabra
The preliminary exam for Hani Chafic Dahabra, 42, was adjourned to Oct. 1 at the requested of his retained attorney Robert Killewald.
Dahabra is charged with operating while intoxicated – 3rd and driving while license suspended in Sumpter Township. He posted bond.
Sumpter Det./Cpl. John Toth is the officer in charge.
Edward Herron
Edward Herron, 31, was set to hold his preliminary exam on Sept. 17, but instead pled guilty to larceny by conversion, which carries a possible one-year sentence. Herron was charged with felony larceny by conversion in Sumpter Township and lodged in the Wayne County Jail with a bond of $10,000 or 10%.
His public defender said the agreement with the prosecutor was to dismiss the felony charge. She said Herron had quite a few medical problems, including an aneurism which needs to be tended to.
Herron said on May 27, 2010 a Sumpter resident gave him $2,000 for roofing work and he took it and used it for his own uses and didn’t do her roof.
Judge Oakley sent him to the probation department for pre-sentencing screening. His attorney said Herron had no priors and has these serious health problems, so Judge Oakley put him on $1,000 personal bond on two conditions: that he be in court for his sentencing and that he consume no alcohol or drugs.
Sumpter Officer Danielle Buccellato is the officer in charge.
Shannon Charles Miller
Shannon Charles Miller, 32, was set to have his preliminary exam on Sept. 17, but waived the exam and Judge Oakley bound him over for an arraignment on the information at 9 a.m. Oct. 1 at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit.
Miller is charged with possession of burglar’s tools and larceny from a motor vehicle in Sumpter Township on Sept. 7. He was lodged in the Wayne County Jail on bond of $15,000 or 10%. Officer in charge is Det./Cpl. Toth.
Toth said Insurance Auto Auction on Rawsonville Road has been stolen from so many times that they have put in hi-tech, expensive computers that read heat signatures and lock onto the intruder when he comes into the sensor and follows him around the yard. That’s how they caught Miller, who reportedly was found under a car cutting out a catalytic converter.
Toth said off-duty Sumpter police officers are being employed on day and night shifts to help protect the yard.
Jonathon Doug Keyandwy
Jonathon Doug Keyandwy was due for his preliminary exam on controlled substance/delivery of marijuana charge, but his exam was adjourned for two weeks, to Oct. 1. Bond of $1,500 or 10% was continued.
VBT Det. McCarthy is the officer in charge.
James Edward Kroetsch
James Edward Kroetsch, 34, was set to have his exam for a charge of possession of narcotics or cocaine on Aug. 28 in Van Buren Township. He waived his exam and was bound over to circuit court. He will be arraigned on the information Oct. 1 at Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit.
He had a bond of $10,000 or 10% and the bond was reduced to $1,000 personal recognizance bond. His court-appointed attorney told Judge Oakley that Kroetsch had been locked up for three-and-a-half weeks for a charge for which he probably will get probation.
The attorney said Kroetsch needs to get out of jail to pay for his apartment, so he doesn’t lose it. Officer in charge VBT Det. McCarthy had no problem with reducing the bond.
Cody Alan Mutschler
Austin-Christopher Williams-Combs
Cody Alan Mutschler, 19, and Austin-Christopher Arthur Williams-Combs, 18, both of Sumpter Township, were bound over to circuit court for arraignments on the information before 34th District Court Judge Oakley on Aug. 27.
They are both facing their final conference, as co-defendants, at 9 a.m. Oct. 3 before Wayne Circuit Court Judge Bruce U. Morrow at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit.
The two were arrested in Sumpter Township on Aug. 9. It all began when a group of young males were engaging another male at Sherwood Park, according to Det./Cpl. Toth.
The 22-year-old Sumpter resident, who became the victim, was told it would be in his best interests if he left the park and he left on foot and called 911 to ask for help. He described to the dispatcher everything that had happened and was standing in someone’s yard when a carload of people left the roadway and struck him and dispatch heard everything that happened. Toth said alcohol was a factor.
The victim was able to jump out of the way of the truck, but was struck with the open door. After the victim was struck, the truck drove off and Officer Joseph Balowski apprehended it 2.5 miles from the scene.
Both Mutschler, the driver, and Williams-Combs, the front-seat passenger, were charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and assault with a dangerous weapon (felonious assault).
Mutschler also was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence causing serious injury.
Toth said the whole incident was based on incorrect information and they thought the victim did something that he didn’t do.