Straker Bar hosts golf tournament
The D. Augustus Straker Bar Association will host its Charity Golf Tournament on Monday, August 12, at Copper Ridge Golf Club and Banquet Center in Davison.
The event starts at 11 a.m.
The cost is $135 (per player) and includes 18 holes with cart, soft drink cart, lunch, full course dinner, grand prize for hole in one, along with contests for closest to the pin and longest drive.
For dinner only, the cost is $50.
For additional information, call Cleveland Jackson at 248.875.3130 or Eddie Gaylor at 313.550.8392.
Man convicted in theft of GM machinery, tools
HOWELL (AP) — A jury has convicted a Michigan man of embezzling more than $100,000 in machinery, tools and precious metals from General Motors.
WHMI-FM and the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus of Howell report the verdict was returned recently in the case against Jeffrey Michael Eastom. Sentencing is scheduled next month.
According to trial testimony, Eastom was the ringleader behind a group of then-employees from Ideal Setech in Howell who from 2008 to 2010 were stealing metals including copper and selling them to a recycling center. The company housed GM property.
Defense attorney Edwin Literski said during the trial that two of Eastom’s co-defendants didn’t initially implicate Eastom, but changed their stories ahead of reaching plea agreements. Two co-defendants have been sentenced and two are awaiting sentencing next month.
Women sentenced in fake dentist scheme
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A mother and daughter from Texas have pleaded guilty to performing dentistry without a license after hours at an Oklahoma City clinic.
Prosecutors allege that Elizabeth Hinojosa of Jourdanton, Texas, worked as a dental assistant during the day. Her daughter, Monica Salazar Orozco, worked as the clinic’s receptionist.
Authorities allege that Hinojosa posed as a dentist after hours and performed root canals, extracted teeth and placed braces on patients.
Prosecutors claim that Orozco helped schedule the after-hours appointments.
Hinojosa was sentenced to five years in prison. Orozco received a five-year deferred sentence.
Hinojosa received prison time because “she was much more culpable,”
Rare, stolen books returned to Sweden
NEW YORK (AP) — Two rare, stolen books have been returned to Swedish authorities during a repatriation ceremony in New York City.
According to court papers, they were among 56 antique books discovered stolen from the National Library of Sweden in 2004. Authorities say the library’s senior librarian stole and sold them to collectors around the world.
The two books were traced to a rare books store in Baltimore.
Steven Feldman, a New York lawyer hired by the library, told the Wall Street Journal the librarian used an alias to sell or consign the books to a German auction house. The librarian committed suicide shortly after confessing to the crime.
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