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RUTLAND CHARTER TOWNSHIPBARRY COUNTY, MICHIGANNOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING ON
PROPOSED SINGLE FAMILY SITE CONDOMINIUM
SUBDIVISION AT NOVEMBER 3, 2021 MEETINGTO: THE RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP
OF RUTLAND, BARRY COUNTY, MICHIGAN, AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED
PERSONS:PLEASE TAKE NOTICE the Rutland Charter Township Planning Commission
will hold a public hearing at its regular meeting on November 3, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. at the
Rutland Charter Township Hall located at 2461 Heath Road, within the Charter Township
of Rutland, Barry County, Michigan.The subject of this public hearing is a 36-unit single family site condominium
subdivision proposed by Carl Algera to be developed on the property commonly known
as 1331 North M-37 Highway (parcel no.’s 13-005-010-00 and 13-005-007-00). This
proposed subdivision is subject to a 3-step approval process by the Township Board
pursuant to the Township Subdivision/Site Condominium Ordinance (Chapter 200, Article
II of the Rutland Charter Township Code), which also requires the Planning Commission
to review a proposed preliminary condominium subdivision plan for compliance with all
applicable ordinances and statutes and make its resulting recommendation to the Town-
ship Board for “Step 1” approval. At this meeting the Planning Commission will also
review the proposed preliminary subdivision plan pursuant to Article XXI of Chapter 220
(Zoning) pertaining to site plan review.Written comments concerning the above matters may be mailed to the Rutland
Charter Township Clerk at the Rutland Charter Township Hall at any time prior to this
public hearing/meeting, and may further be submitted to the Planning Commission at the
public hearing/meeting.The Rutland Charter Township Code, Zoning Map, Master Plan, and all filed
materials pertaining to the above-referenced proposed site condominium subdivision
may be examined by contacting the Rutland Charter Township Clerk at the Township Hall
during regular business hours on regular business days maintained by the Township
offices from and after the publication of this Notice and until and including the day of the
hearing/meeting, and further may be examined at the hearing/meeting.Rutland Charter Township will provide necessary reasonable auxiliary aids and
services at the meeting/hearing to individuals with disabilities, such as signers for the
hearing impaired and audiotapes of printed materials being considered, upon reasonable
notice to the Township. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services
should contact the Township Clerk as designated below.
Robin Hawthorne, Clerk
Rutland Charter Township
2461 Heath Road
Hastings, Michigan 49058
(269) 948-Intoxicated woman crashes car into garage
Police were dispatched to a rollover accident at the intersection of Wood School Road
and Mountain Ridge Drive in Irving Township at 5:50 a.m. Sept. 24. The driver, a 23-year-
old Hastings woman, said all she knew was that she hit a bunch of stuff and she was very
sorry. Her vehicle had gone off the road, onto a property, through a hedge and hit a parked
car and garage. The woman said she had left a bar in Grand Rapids, but could not remem-
ber where it was or how much she’d had to drink. After registering a 0.156 percent blood
alcohol content, she was arrested and taken to an area hospital for evaluation.Burglars find nothing of value
Police were called out to Bob’s Gun and Tackle in Hastings for a reported breaking
and entering at 9 a.m. Sept. 21. An employee said two sheds on the north side of the
building had been broken into, but nothing appeared to be taken. The officer observed
the doors of the structures had been pried open. The sheds contained only scrap wood
and old furniture, and nothing of value, police said.Woman says boyfriend pointed shotgun at her
A 21-year-old Plainwell woman called police at 7:35 p.m. Sept. 15 to report her
boyfriend, 20, of Delton, had assaulted her on two separate occasions. The woman said
they had driven to the Dollar General Store in Delton Sept. 4, and she went inside to
buy some food for him. When she returned to the car with a snack, he crumpled it up,
threw it at her and drove off. He eventually returned, picked her up, and took her to the
Prairieville Township Park. Once there, the woman said he got out, pulled a shotgun out
of the back seat, pointed it at her head and threatened her. The woman said she believed
he did so because of an argument over her seatbelt. Afterward, he put the gun away and
drove her back to his residence. The woman said she wanted to call her brother to pick
her up, but her boyfriend said he would shoot anyone who came to his house. He took
her home the next morning. Another assault occurred Sept. 12, the woman said. Her
boyfriend picked her up at her house and drove her to a farm in an unknown location.
She said he was angry she’d spent time with her friends without telling him. When she
kept receiving text messages on her phone, he picked it up and threw it into the side of
a barn, breaking it. She said he hit her with his hand and with a water bottle, and
dumped the water on her. He then took her back home. The boyfriend told police she
had attacked him, and he had pushed her away from him. He said he couldn’t remember
the afternoon when she alleged that he had pointed the shotgun at her. Information was
forwarded to the Barry County Prosecutor’s Office.Nephew, uncle fight over food
Police were dispatched to a Barry Township home around 3 p.m. Sept. 26 regarding
a non-aggravated assault after an uncle and nephew got into a physical altercation. The
two live in the same house, with the nephew downstairs and the uncle upstairs. The
incident happened after the uncle texted his nephew, who was with a woman, that he
was coming downstairs and asked the nephew to put on clothes. According to the uncle,
the nephew and the woman are often naked downstairs. The nephew, however, inter-
preted the message as “rude.” They proceeded to meet downstairs where they started to
argue about food. A fight ensued, with the two men pushing and tackling each other.
Eventually, the uncle put the nephew in a headlock “until he calmed down.” In the
process, a 2-year-old was knocked over and the nephew was bitten by the uncle’s dog.
Neither party wished to pursue charges.Boyfriend knocks down door
Police responded to a domestic violence call around 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, in
Barry Township. A woman called after an argument with her boyfriend escalated into a
violent encounter. It started with a fight about renting a dumpster for their backyard.
She said he had not been physically abusive in the past, but she was worried about the
situation recurring, so she called the police. Her boyfriend snatched the phone out of
her hand; she grabbed it back and ran into the bathroom. He proceeded to push through
the door to take the phone back. Then he left the house, placing the phone on the count-
er on the way out. She called the police after she saw him sitting on the front steps. He
texted her, begging her not to call the police. He was arrested on a charge of domestic
violence.Woodland shootout suspect faces additional charges
Taylor Owens
Staff Writer
Timothy Riddle, 48, of Hastings, charged in
an Aug. 4 burglary, high-speed police chase,
and standoff with police at a gas station in
Woodland, now faces 23 additional charges in
connection with the events of that day.
Riddle had previously faced three charges,
including felonious assault, fleeing and elud-
ing a police officer and resisting and obstruct-
ing a police officer.
Barry County Prosecutor Julie Nakfoor
Pratt added assault with intent to murder, two
counts of armed robbery, discharge of a fire-
arm in or at a building, malicious destruction
of property, two counts of assault with a dan-
gerous weapon, felon in possession of a fire-
arm and tampering with an electronic monitor-
ing device. He also was charged with using a
firearm while committing each offense, which
added a further nine felony firearm charges.
In the burglary, Riddle was charged with
first-degree home invasion, two counts of lar-
ceny of a firearm and one count of possession
of a firearm by a felon. A further four felony
firearm charges were added on to those counts.
The incident began when a 52-year-old
Woodland man called police to report that
someone had broken into his house in the 1000
block of North Coville Road, and stolen two
shotguns.
The man said Riddle had been living in a
trailer on his property, but he had kicked him
out for doing drugs. When he heard Riddle
had recently been released from jail, he hid his
guns and collectibles. But, when he got home
on Aug. 4, he saw lights turned on that should
not have been, and noticed that two of his
shotguns were missing.
Witnesses told police they spotted Riddle’s
vehicle in the man’s driveway and saw Riddle
go into the house.
The Michigan State Police said Riddle later
confessed to breaking into the house and steal-
ing the guns. He had one of the shotguns
during the chase and standoff, but the other he
had given to a Hastings resident.
Hastings City Police were later able to
retrieve the second shotgun.
Once Riddle was identified as a suspect, offi-
cers in the area were notified to look for him.
Hastings police saw Riddle’s matte black
Chevy HHR at the Marathon gas station on
M-43 in Hastings at 6:48 p.m. Aug. 4. After
Riddle left the station and turned north onto
M-43, an officer initiated a traffic stop. He
detailed his interaction with Riddle in a writ-
ten report.
The officer told Riddle he was not under
arrest, but Barry County Sheriff’s deputies
wanted to talk to him. He asked Riddle to step
out of the car and wait for the deputies to
arrive.
While Riddle appeared agitated at first, he
seemed to calm down after the officer had
explained the situation to him.
Riddle shut off the car and pulled out the
key – but he refused to step out of the vehicle.
He started talking about his former girlfriend,
a 40-year-old Hastings woman, and insisted to
the officer that he had not gone near her.
“I did not do nothing to her, man,” Riddle
said.The officer told Riddle he was
not being pulled over because of
his ex-girlfriend, but Riddle kept
talking about her and, as he did,
grew more agitated.
The officer told him to step out
of the vehicle or hand over the
key. Riddle held the key out the
window, as if to hand it over, but
pulled it back inside.
“I’m just going to book it,” he
said, and started the ignition.
Twice the officer told Riddle not to leave.
“I am,” Riddle said, then he drove off at a
high rate of speed.
The officer took off after Riddle, driving
north on M-43. Other officers from the city
police and sheriff’s office soon joined the pur-
suit.
According to the report, Riddle drove at
more than 115 mph in an attempt to elude the
police. More than once, he pointed a shotgun
at the Hastings City police cruiser behind him,
which forced the officer to back off and
increased the distance between them.
The chase ended at the parking lot of the
Mobil gas station on M-43, east of Woodland.
After Riddle got out of the car, police said he
pointed a gun at officers, and a Barry County
Sheriff’s deputy fired shots. At some point,
Riddle also fired several shots, police said.
Then Riddle went inside the station, and
told customers to leave.
Two employees, a 22-year-old Woodland
woman and 74-year-old Nashville woman,
heard the shots, saw customers running out-
side, and locked themselves in a back room.
They did not believe Riddle knew they were
there.
The 22-year-old woman immediately called
911, and remained on the phone with a dis-
patcher until they got outside.
They heard Riddle using the gas station
phone to talk to his former girlfriend.
He seemed to be blaming her for causing
the situation, because she broke up with him.
The woman later told police she broke up with
Riddle because of his drug use, and the stress
that he caused.
According to the police report, the employ-
ees heard him say “he had just been in the
‘coolest high-speed chase of my life’ and that
he was not going back to prison.”
He said he would either shoot himself, or let
police shoot him. His girlfriend told policethat Riddle had often spoken of
“suicide by cop.”
The service station employees
told police they heard Riddle
claim that police had shot at him
17 times, and that he had been hit
four times. He said one bullet hit
his head, but the bullet had
bounced off.
They also heard Riddle break-
ing liquor bottles and throwing
the cash register around.
Eventually, he started going through the build-
ing, and stopped at the locked door.
He called out and asked if anyone was
inside. When the employees remained silent,
he asked again, and said he would shoot the
door open.
The 74-year-old woman called out to say
they were inside.
Riddle said he would not hurt them, put
down the gun, and asked them to open the
door and get out. As soon as they opened the
door, both women immediately got out of the
building. They saw Riddle only briefly, and
said he had what appeared to be a scrape on
his head with some blood running down his
nose.
At some point, the Michigan State Police
Emergency Support Team arrived at the scene
and started negotiating with Riddle.
At 1:30 a.m., after nearly seven hours of
standoff and negotiations, he surrendered.
Riddle was taken to Spectrum Health
Pennock for evaluation and then to jail. He
sustained minor injuries, and no police or
bystanders reported any injuries.
The court record shows that Riddle has
spent most of his life behind bars.
He was 15 when he was convicted in 1988
of breaking and entering and felony murder.
According to a Detroit Free Press article
from that time, Riddle broke into the home of
80-year-old Renate Henie and crushed her
skull with a beer bottle. Her body was found
two weeks later.
Riddle was sentenced to prison for life. But
he was released on parole in November 2019,
after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that man-
datory life sentences for juveniles are uncon-
stitutional.
The Hastings City Police said they have had
contact with Riddle in 23 separate incidents
since August 2020. In most of those incidents,
Riddle either was the suspect or was arrested.Joseph Michael Quero, 28, of Hastings,
was convicted of operating a vehicle on
Hammond Road/Willitts Road in Irving
Township while intoxicated as a third-time
offender April 26. He was sentenced by Judge
Michael Schipper to three days in jail, with
credit for three days served, ordered to pay
$398 in fines and costs, and placed on proba-
tion for 36 months. Quero will continue on a
Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor,
be placed in sobriety court and pay the $
fee. A charge of operating a vehicle while his
license was suspended was dismissed at the
time of sentencing. Court records show he had
prior felony convictions for impaired driving
Aug. 30, 2011, in Van Buren County; operat-
ing a vehicle while intoxicated Dec. 9, 2015,
in Kalamazoo County; and impaired driving
April 17, 2019, in Saginaw County, as well as
misdemeanor infractions Aug. 11, 2015, and
Nov. 14, 2017, in Hastings and Feb. 9, 2017,
in Oakland County.
Krista Lynn Ballard, 37, of Hastings, was
convicted of possessing a controlled sub-
stance, methamphetamine, in Hastings May
25, 2020. She was sentenced by Judge
Schipper to 54 days in jail, with credit for 54
days served, ordered to pay $398 in fines and
costs, and placed on probation for 12 months.
A charge of operating a vehicle without a
license on South Dibble Street was dismissed
at the time of sentencing. Court records show
a prior conviction for possession of metham-phetamine Oct. 16, 2019, and possession of
marijuana Aug. 3, 2004.
Michael James Kensington, 40, of
Hastings, was convicted of prison escape
from a community residential home in
Baltimore Township, where he violated the
terms of his release from prison under a
work-pass program. He also was convicted of
unlawful use of a motor vehicle April 8. He
was sentenced by Judge Schipper to two con-
secutive terms of 365 days in jail, with credit
for 142 days served. Kensington was ordered
to pay $1,048 in fines and costs, and his driv-
er’s license was suspended for 90 days. Court
records show prior convictions for breaking
and entering a building and second-degree
home invasion Oct. 29, 1998; third-degree
criminal sexual conduct April 9, 2003,
third-degree criminal sexual conduct Oct. 1,
2003; and forgery Aug. 14, 2019, all in Barry
County.
Guadalupe Alvarez, 54, of Lansing, was
convicted of domestic violence as a third-
time offender. He assaulted a resident or for-
mer resident of his household in Orangeville
Township May 16. He was sentenced by
Judge Schipper to serve 180 days in jail, with
credit for 78 days served, and ordered to pay
$998 in fines and costs. Alvarez was placed
on probation for 36 months. A charge of
abandoning/cruelty to animals – cruelly driv-
ing, working or beating an animal and/or
negligently allowing an animal to sufferunnecessary neglect, torture or pain – was
dismissed at the time of sentencing. Court
records show he was previously convicted of
a felony or an attempt to commit a felony for
operating a vehicle while intoxicated Sept.
29, 2016, in Ingham County.
Christopher Ray Magoon, 40, of
Charlotte, was convicted of sexually abusive
activity involving a child – persuading,
inducing, enticing, coercing or causing a
16-year-old to engage in a child sexually abu-
sive activity for the purpose of producing
child sexually abusive material involving a
video – in Assyria Township from July 2018
to Sept. 25, 2018. He was sentenced by Judge
Schipper to serve 24 to 240 months in prison,
with credit for 247 days served, and ordered
to pay $998 in fines and costs. Two counts,
one of aggravated child sexually abusive
activity and one of using the internet and/or a
computer to communicate with a 16-year-old
for the purpose of child sexually abusive
activity where the victim, or intended victim,
was a minor, was dismissed at the time of
sentencing.
Jesse Lee Miller, 30, of Lansing, was con-
victed of larceny in a building in Nashville
June 6. He was sentenced by Judge Schipper
to 53 days in jail, with credit for 53 days
served. Miller was ordered to pay $398 in
fines and costs. A charge of home invasion,
entering a dwelling without permission, was
dismissed at the time of sentencing.
Shawn Lyn Rowley, 52, of Nashville, was
convicted of possession of a controlled sub-
stance, methamphetamine, and assaulting/
resisting and obstructing a police officer. He
sentenced by Judge Schipper to 38 to 120
months in prison. A second count of assault-
ing/resisting and obstructing a police officer
and operating a vehicle with a forged license
were dismissed at the time of sentencing.
Rowley was ordered to pay $1,066 in fines
and costs. Court records show prior convic-
tions for attempted uttering and publishing
July 18, 1991, retaining a credit card without
consent Nov. 3, 1994, prison escape Dec. 14,
1995, attempting to obtain a controlled sub-
stance by fraud Aug. 23, 2000, felon in pos-
session of a firearm Sept. 25, 2002, two
counts of uttering and publishing Oct. 15,
2004, attempted larceny in a building Sept. 9,
2009, possession of methamphetamine Sept.
11, 2019, and attempted resisting/obstructing
a police officer Sept. 11, 2009, all in Barry
County; attempted possession of a controlled
substance Nov. 24, 2003, in Kalamazoo
County; stealing or retaining a financial
transaction device without consent Sept. 20,
2004, and second-degree home invasion Oct.
16, 2002, both in Tuscola County.169628NOTICE
The Barry County Road Commission is accepting sealed bids for the purchase
of (1) 20ton Tilt Deck Equipment Trailer, tandem axle and (1) melter applicator
with double pump and electric heated hoses. Full specifications can be obtained
from the BCRC. Bids will be opened at 10 AM on October 25, 2021 at the offices
of the BCRC. The BCRC reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to
purchase comparable equipment at a lower price. Please clearly indicate on the
outside of the envelope “Sealed bid enclosed – “20ton Tag Trailer” or “Melter
Applicator”.Please direct all questions Rob Richardson, Equipment Superintendent.Barry County Road Commission
1725 W. M43 Hwy., P.O. Box 158
Hastings, MI 49058
269-945-The armed standoff at the Mobil gas station in Woodland lasted nearly seven hours.
(File photo)Timothy Riddle