Manistee judge modifies Judge Parrott’s pretrial release conditions

After a bond hearing on Tuesday morning, Feb. 25, a Manistee County District Court Judge modified 34th District Court Judge David Parrott’s pretrial release order to allow him to be free as long as he continued to wear his Soberlink device.
The Manistee County prosecutor had moved that Parrott’s bond be revoked for a violation of parole which would send him to jail to await trial on a drunk-driving charge that now is in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
The judge said it would be too heavy-handed to put Parrott in jail to await word from the court of appeals in that he could serve more than the 93-day sentence he would get if he was found guilty of the charge.
The bond hearing was televised live by WXYZ.
The judge said since Parrott is already wearing Soberlink as part of his bond agreement for the Wayne County charge of domestic violence, he is ordered to submit Soberlink reports to his probation department four times a day as scheduled by their probation officer.
He emphasized that Parrott has a problem with alcohol that led to the two charges he is facing. He was ordered not to possess, purchase or use any alcohol or other non-prescription drugs and not use medical marijuana and to comply with other orders in his Wayne County bond for his domestic violence charge.
Testifying by Polycom from Van Buren Township were VBT Officer Michael Rini, Sgt. Marc Abdilla, and Lt. Charles Bazzy. The first two told of the Feb. 8 domestic violence charge that started earlier that day at the Polar Plunge at the BYC and ended in the evening with an argument. Lt. Bazzy said Parrott’s ex-wife came to the police department on Feb. 14 to ask if one of Parrott’s guns that he turned over to police, a 44 magnum, was still registered to her and it was, a civil infraction.
The judge did not find this important to the motion before him.
Parrott’s pretrial on the domestic violence charge is set for 8:30 a.m., Feb. 28, at 35th District Court in Plymouth.