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U.S. Secret Service Wednesday, Aug. 11,
in Clare investigating credit card fraud case
By CINDY M. CRANMER
     CLARE – More than 150 credit card holders who frequented a local business that had its database accessed have seen fraudulent charges appear on their cards in a case that is being investigated by the [...]

     MOUNT PLEASANT – A Flint woman is trying to spread the word warning people about a recent incident in the Clare area where her parents were overcharged by a door to door salesman for meat products and then stolen from.
     Susan Smith said her parents live in Isabella County near the Clare County line. [...]

     HARRISON – A 44-year-old Clare County inmate died Friday, July 9, reported Sheriff John Wilson Saturday morning.
     Ronald William Ross, Spring Lake, died after cutting a main artery in his arm, said Wilson, who indicated that Ross was being held on parole violations, concealing stolen property and weapons charges.
     Ross was found in the [...]

     HARRISON – Today’s preliminary examination for a former Clare city police chief, who previously has been arraigned on two criminal charges in connection with a case in which prescription drugs were fraudulently obtained, was postponed, according to court officials.
     Former Clare police chief Timothy Rynearson, 56, Clare, was arraigned June 21 in 80th District [...]

rynearson-timothy-10-0760-fy (copy of felony warrant)
Stay tuned to Clare Sentinel website for further developments
     HARRISON – A former Clare City Police chief has been arraigned on two criminal charges in connection with allegedly fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs, and will face a preliminary hearing a week from Friday, according to police and court officials.
     Former Clare police chief [...]

     CLARE – A bakery shop employee has been accused of stealing some “dough” on the side from his employers, all nine of whom happen to be Clare city police officers.
     Troopers from the Mount Pleasant State Police Post investigated a breaking and entering along with a Larceny of Money complaint which occurred in the [...]

     REED CITY – The clerk for Redding Township entered a plea Friday, June 25, on embezzlement charges in the 49th Circuit Court in Osceola County, according to police and court officials.
     James Zarembo, a Harrison area resident, entered a guilty plea to an embezzlement charge for taking money from a pool league in Osceola [...]

     HARRISON – Two Farwell men recently were sentenced on an attempted assault charge as part of a plea agreement to close the matter without a second trial.
     The men faced charges that accused them of abusing a now 7-year-old Harrison boy. Jury deliberations lasted for more than two days before the hung jury resulted [...]

     FARWELL – A 39-year-old Lake man recently entered a plea in connection with his alleged involvement in making threats that caused a local school to be locked down in March, according to court officials.
     Darrel Lee Runyon was arraigned on Tuesday, March 16 in 80th District Court on two charges of telecommunications service – [...]

     HARRISON – A mistrial was declared in the case of a 28-year-old Farwell man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a now 12-year-old girl in October 2008, according to the Clare County Prosecutor and 55th Circuit Court officials.
     The trial for Justin Todd Gaskill began Tuesday, May 18, with jury selection before a mistrial [...]