Crime

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MANISTIQUE, MI--   Officials have recaptured a man who walked away from the Schoolcraft County Jail.

Monday night the 25-year-old was granted release to attend counseling at a Manistique church, but he never showed up. 

The Schoolcraft County Sheriff’s Department initiated a search with the assistance of Michigan State Police, Manistique Public Safety, and Sault Ste. Marie Tribal Police.  The man was found around 10 p.m. Monday night in a parking lot on the western side of Manistique.

CHANNING, MI--   A Dickinson County resident has been arrested for having a marijuana growing operation in their residence.  

Wednesday around 2 p.m. troopers from the Iron Mountain Post and agents from the Department of Corrections Parole Division contacted the subject in Channing on a parole violation. 

Officers noticed the odor of marijuana in the house and executed a search warrant.  They found growing plants and processed material valued at more than $121,000.  Troopers also seized growing equipment. 

MANISTIQUE, MI--   A Rapid River woman has been arrested for embezzling from a Manistique assisted living facility.  

Troopers from the St. Ignace Post say Jana Chaperon, 39, was the former director of the Woodland Meadows Assisted Living Facility, owned by Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital.  She resigned her post last summer before the facility was sold. 

Chaperon is charged with two felonies:  embezzlement between $50,000 and $100,000 and using a computer to commit a crime.  The embezzlement charge is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.