Online auction offers 14K-plus properties
DETROIT (AP) — More than 14,000 tax-foreclosed residential and commercial properties across Wayne County will be featured in an online auction in September.
Registration for the auction currently is open, but closes September 9.
Auction dates are September 16-22.
The county treasurer’s office says the number of properties available for auction is 15 percent higher than last year.
Bidders must submit a $1,035 deposit, which includes a $35 processing fee. A $5,035 deposit is required to bid on more than one property.
Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz says the law requires the minimum bid must include unpaid taxes, penalties, interest, and the cost of the foreclosure process.
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Farmers irked over trashed cornfields
KALAMAZOO (AP) — Authorities in southwestern Michigan say they’re getting more reports of cornfields being trashed by drivers — apparently for kicks.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that neighbors recently chased down a sport utility vehicle full of teens and cornered them with their own vehicles until deputies could arrest them.
Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Pali Matyas says there’s been a “rash of this” recently.
In another case, an off-road vehicle was driven through a corn field.
Matyas says those involved are generally young people who consider their actions a prank.
He says “if you catch one you tend to find out they’ve done several.”
When drivers are caught, authorities typically seek malicious destruction of property charges and restitution for every stalk that’s destroyed.
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Judge ends case of vet who made jet threat
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A federal court judge says an Air Force veteran who caused a trans-Atlantic flight to be diverted to Maine suffered a brief psychotic break and is not a threat to society.
The judge made the comments recently when he found 27-year-old Derek Stansberry of Riverview, Fla., not guilty by reason of insanity on charges stemming from the April 2010 incident.
Judge John Woodcock ruled that sleep deprivation, stress, dehydration and ingestion of body building supplements contributed to Stansberry’s break, which lasted several days.
The Paris-to-Atlanta flight diverted to Bangor after Stansberry gave a note to a flight attendant and then responded “yes” when federal air marshals asked if he had explosives.
Stansberry’s lawyer says no one expects a similar thing to happen with him again.
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Prosecutors say Blago convictions should stand
CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors say ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich received a fair trial this year and his convictions should stand.
They made that argument in a 133-page filing recently in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The document is a retort to a 158-page defense motion last month that alleges a litany of errors at Blagojevich’s retrial and asks for another trial.
In the prosecutors’ filing, they say there was “no bias, manipulation or unfairness” by the government attorneys or the judge.
The retrial ended in June with jurors convicting Blagojevich, 54, on 17 of 20 corruption counts. Those included charges he tried to sell or trade President Obama’s vacated Senate seat.
The 54-year-old Democrat is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 6.
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