After a preliminary exam on Feb. 7 before 34th District Court Judge Brian A. Oakley, Jamie Joel Wood, 25, was bound over to circuit court. His arraignment on the information is Feb. 21.
He is charged with unarmed robbery and larceny in a building in Van Buren Township on July 17, 2017.
Prosecutor Phoebe Longnecker asked for an adjournment of the preliminary exam to another date because her witness was stuck in the snow in her driveway on Edison Lake Road. But Judge Oakley said everyone else got to court and Van Buren Township police should send an officer over to pick her up or get the DPW to pick her up. The case was delayed and the witness got to court.
Christine Smith testified that her daughter Alexandria Rich and her boyfriend Jaimie Wood were arguing. Smith’s boyfriend, who was home for lunch, told Jaimie to leave and he did, but came back when the boyfriend went back to work.
Smith said the two had been told to leave and so they had someone coming to pick them up and she saw the contents of their bags set out in front of the garage. Smith said she saw her tablet in Alex’s bag, plus a jar of money from the house in a bag, her younger daughter’s birthday money, about $100 in $2 bills that belonged to her boyfriend, her prescriptions, and other items. There was alcohol, as well, and Alexandria was on rehabilitation. She said she was taking the items out of the bag when Wood grabbed her arms from behind and fell on top of her on the ground. She said he hit her many times and her daughter hit her, too. She said their ride came and they left her laying in the driveway. Someone had called the police and VBT police were there just after the couple had driven off.
Under cross examination by court-appointed defense attorney Geoffrey Glaser, Smith said she struck Wood in the head and pushed her daughter after the daughter hit her.
Judge Oakley found probable cause to bind him over to the higher court. Wood’s bond of $10,000/10% was continued.
Wood’s co-defendant on the same charges, Alexandria Sharon Rich, 24, has a jury trial set for March 8 before Judge Lawrence Stuart Talon. Her retained attorney is Leslie Cooper.
Terence Montez White
Terence Montez White, 31, was bound over to circuit court on separate charges from Van Buren Township and Romulus after a preliminary exam before Judge Oakley. He is charged with felonious assault, possession of a weapon by a felon, weapons felony firearm, and domestic violence on Dec. 30 in Van Buren Township. He also is charged with assaulting / resisting / obstructing a police officer in Romulus on March 7. White is lodged on $100,000/10% bond and also being held on a violation of probation charge from earlier separate charges.
VBT Police Officer William Bettendorf testified he was dispatched to 9104 Parkwood during the daytime on Dec. 30 to investigate two subjects shooting at each other in front of the address. Sgt. Smith searched a vehicle. Officer Hayes located a weapon in a snowbank. Officer Bettendorf said he knocked on the door and a woman, Ebony Brown, gave him permission to come in and look around for victims or suspects. He said he found another male upstairs with children, a long gun with a black case in the upstairs closet, and a stack of credit cards on the dresser. He said Brown said he could look anywhere, but he didn’t put that in his report.
VBT Police Officer David Champagne was the next witness. He said he was told around 1:30 p.m. that people were shooting at each other in the parking lot. He said Detective Jeff Stanton directed him to stay at the residence until he returned with a search warrant, which he did and the residence was searched.
He testified there was a 12-gauge shotgun in the closet and a black nylon case with five magazines, three of which were loaded. There were a lot of other things upstairs, including pill bottles.
Det. Stanton testified that while no police officer saw White on that day, he personally knew of the defendant from an ongoing investigation into White working with another unit.
He said Sgt. Shultz pointed out FTDs (financial transaction devices) and a Michigan ID card for White, as well as a medical pill bottle for Terence White. There also was a wallet with White’s Social Security card in it, a court notice from 34th District Court to White at his Beverly Street address in Romulus.
Det. Stanton said a photo was thumbtacked to the wall of the bedroom and White was in the photo.
Romulus Police Officer Joseph Ashley testified that on March 7, he made a traffic stop and White was the passenger. He said he told White to put his hands on the dashboard and stay in the car until he could put the driver with a suspended license in his squad car. But, White ran off, he said.
Court appointed defense attorney Susan Rock argued that in the Romulus case her client didn’t do anything illegal and the officer just made it up that he told him to wait. She said that wasn’t in the police report that was written last March.
In the VBT case, she said her client was never seen entering the Parkwood address and no proof he had possession of a shotgun. She said there was no lease or utility bills to prove he lived there and, “There’s nothing to establish he was in that bedroom.”
Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Amanda McRae made a motion to bind over White to the higher court and Judge Oakley agreed it was for a tryer of fact to decide. He is scheduled to be at circuit court for an arraignment on the information on Feb. 14.
White co-defendant on the VBT charges, Hyleah Cherie-Ciscle Clark, 30, is charged with domestic violence on Dec. 30 and she is yet to be arrested.
Derek Williams-Ryan Jones
The probable cause conference for Derek Williams-Ryan Jones, 26, was adjourned until Feb. 21. He is charged with possession of a weapon by a felon x3, carrying a concealed weapon x3, weapons-felony firearm x3, and driving while license suspended in Sumpter Township on Jan. 29. He is free on $10,000 personal recognizance bond.
Bradly James McKinnies
Bradly James McKinnies, 28, waived his preliminary exams on two files against him and was bound over to circuit court for his arraignment on the information on Feb. 14. His bond of $500,000/10% was continued. He is lodged in the Wayne County Jail.
McKinnies is charged with criminal sexual conduct-first degree (relationship) x4, criminal sexual conduct-second degree (relationship) x2, child abuse, plus an additional count of taking and distributing child images on Nov. 29 in the City of Belleville. In the second file he is charged with second-degree child abuse. His retained defense attorney is David Goldstein.