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District 1 counties of service: Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon.
While on patrol, CO Phil Helminen discovered a vehicle stuck in a ditch with its rear wheels suspended several feet in the air. He immediately contacted the elderly driver, who was uninjured and explained they had run off the road while attempting to turn around after missing their driveway. A family friend gave the driver a ride home, and the vehicle was subsequently towed from the scene.
While patrolling a remote area off U.S. Highway 41, CO Olivia Haerr responded to a report of an unconscious subject lying in a ditch. She assisted arriving agencies by gathering the individual's identity and prior medical history at the scene. The subject was then transported to Baraga Community Memorial Hospital for further medical evaluation.
District 2 counties of service: Alger, Chippewa, Delta, Mackinac, Luce, Schoolcraft.
Well after dark, CO Michael Evink responded to a report of overdue tubers on the Manistique River. Assisted by Michigan State Police (MSP) troopers, he launched a patrol boat onto the river. They successfully located all four tubers and returned them safely to the access point.
District 3 counties of service: Alpena, Antrim, Cheboygan, Charlevoix, Emmet, Montmorency, Otsego, Presque Isle.
While on patrol in a remote area of Antrim County, CO Andrea Albert discovered a vehicle registered to an owner with an outstanding felony warrant. CO Albert made contact and found that both the male subject and his female companion had active felony warrants for six counts of animal cruelty. Assisted by the Antrim County Sheriff's Department, CO Albert arrested both individuals and lodged them in the county jail.
While patrolling the Pigeon River Country State Forest, CO Tyler Owen was contacted by a group of equestrian riders reporting two members of their party missing and four hours overdue back to camp. CO Owen immediately assisted with the search efforts. The missing riders were successfully located and returned safely to their camp.
CO Sidney LaLonde and Presque Isle County Sheriff's deputy responded to a medical emergency involving a five-year-old boy experiencing severe breathing difficulties. Because the local ambulance was occupied on a prior call, the officers arrived first, evaluated the child, and identified the issue as an asthma-related breathing episode. They monitored his condition until an EMS crew arrived from another city to take over medical care.
COs Jon Sheppard, Evan White, and Kevin Bunce conducted a timber theft investigation on state land in Alpena County. CO Sheppard had received multiple reports several times per week for over a month that suspects were cutting and removing large standing trees on state land. After weeks of monitoring the situation, CO Sheppard noticed a pattern. That pattern allowed them to catch the suspects in the act of cutting down trees. Interviews were conducted on scene to which the suspect admitted to cutting trees and eventually admitted to selling the wood at a lumber mill. The COs went to the mill and confirmed that the wood was being sold there. There were thousands of dollars’ worth of illegally harvested timber sold. The main suspect had felony warrants and was placed under arrest for the warrants and lodged at the Alpena County Jail. A report requesting charges for felony timber theft will be submitted to the Alpena County prosecutor.
District 4 counties of service: Benzie, Grand Traverse, Lake, Leelanau, Manistee, Mason, Mecosta, Newaygo, Oceana, Wexford.
CO Will Kinney and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park Service (NPS) rangers collaborated to rescue a distressed swimmer who was swept roughly one mile out into Lake Michigan's Platte Bay after tubing down the Platte River in Benzie County. Utilizing a small motorized inflatable raft from the Benzie County Sheriff’s Office, the officers reached the woman, who had remained calm and stayed atop her tube. She was provided with a life jacket, brought safely aboard the vessel, and returned to shore unharmed and appreciative of the rescue.
While on patrol in Grand Traverse County, CO Jacob Robinson responded to a dispatch call regarding a vehicle that had crashed into Acme Creek. He arrived on scene and assisted Grand Traverse County deputies and the MSP with rescuing the occupants. When the responding agencies required a canoe to retrieve debris and evidence from the water, CO Robinson coordinated with CO Zack Walters, who delivered a canoe to the crash site to assist in the recovery.
District 5 counties of service: Alcona, Arenac, Clare, Crawford, Gladwin, Iosco, Kalkaska, Missaukee, Ogemaw, Osceola, Oscoda, Roscommon.
CO Jacob Hamilton responded to a dirt bike accident in Osceola County located approximately half a mile from the trailhead. Working alongside Evart Fire Department personnel, EMS, and an Osceola County Sheriff's deputy, CO Hamilton utilized a Mega Mover to carry the injured rider safely out of the woods. The subject was transported to the Evart airfield and subsequently airlifted to a hospital for treatment.
COs Tyler Sabuda and Jesse Grzechowski, along with an MSP trooper, responded well after dark to a complaint regarding a missing female tuber on the Au Sable River ahead of incoming storms. The woman had missed her designated pull-out location while tubing with family and had been missing for several hours. Utilizing a patrol boat, the officers searched from Loud Pond up into the river, successfully locating the tuber, who was cold and scared but otherwise in good health. They wrapped her in an emergency blanket and transported her back to the Loud Pond launch without further incident.
District 6 counties of service: Bay, Gratiot, Huron, Isabella, Midland, Montcalm, Saginaw, Sanilac, Tuscola.
CO Adam Beuthin received a complaint from a local police department that birdshot from goose hunters was hitting an apartment complex. The CO made his way to the area of the complaint and observed the hunters. After making contact and talking with the complainant, it was determined there wasn’t any damage from the goose hunters shot falling on the apartment complex and the hunters were outside of the safety zone. CO Beuthin then contacted the group of hunters, and it was determined it was a guided waterfowl hunt. When the CO asked the guide to produce his commercial guide license, it was revealed after several minutes of conversation the guide did not have his commercial guide license. The CO had given the hunting guide a verbal warning back in the fall of 2024 for the same violation. Enforcement action was taken and the individual was given a citation for failing to obtain a commercial guide license.
CO Mike Eovaldi was watching a group of teal hunters who were suspected of shooting prior to legal shooting hours. As the CO was conducting surveillance, the hunters fired four shots, killing two ducks. CO Eovaldi observed two individuals retrieve the ducks. From his vantage point, he could see that one of the ducks was a hen wood duck. The CO then contacted the hunter, who admitted that he misidentified the bird. The hunter was issued a citation for taking a wood duck out of season.
District 7 counties of service: Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, Kent, Muskegon, Ottawa, St Joseph, Van Buren.
CO Carter Woodwyk was patrolling the Kalamazoo River at the Allegan Dam in Allegan County when he observed multiple anglers returning to their vehicle with two coolers. Upon conducting a license and fish check, he found the anglers had harvested three carp and three large mussels, the latter of which are illegal to harvest in Michigan. Additionally, none of the anglers possessed a valid 2026 Michigan fishing license. Enforcement action was taken.
CO Travis Dragomer contacted an angler fishing on the St. Joseph River with an over limit number of fishing lines. The angler was also in possession of illegal cut bait brought from another state and an undersized, mutilated bass. CO Dragomer issued a citation and multiple warnings. The illegal bait was seized.
While patrolling Van Buren County, CO Matt Page contacted an individual fishing with illegal gear. The subject received a citation the previous week for fishing without a license. He was found using an un-baited, homemade multi pointed hook exceeding legal size limits, along with a weight rigidly attached to the hook. The individual claimed he was not targeting salmon but intended to snag carp. A citation was issued for illegal gear.
District 8 counties of service: Branch, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Hillsdale, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Shiawassee.
CO Marc Mankowski received a complaint through the DNR RAP hotline of waterfowl hunters trespassing. The complainant offered a kayak to the CO who paddled upstream and contacted the hunters on adjacent property. They were initially found to be hunting without a federal duck stamp and lead shot. Walking around their hunting site, CO Mankowski found duck feathers and asked the hunters where the duck was, and they said they shot it last week during the teal season. Knowing they were not teal feathers, CO Mankowski asked where the duck was again and the hunters pulled a hen wood duck out of the weeds. A check of safety equipment on their boat was conducted, and the group didn’t have enough life jackets and failed to register the boat in their name after purchasing it last year. The group returned to the boat launch and sat around a picnic table where they received their citations and then a lesson on waterfowl and boating regulations as well as other fish and game laws. Afterwards, the kayak was returned to the complainant where he told multiple stories of working with COs Goss, McCullough and retired Sgt. Bahlau over the years on similar issues on his property.
District 9 counties of service: Genesee, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair.
Nothing to report
District 10 counties of service: Lenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw, Wayne.
CO Ariel Young received a complaint regarding a person unlawfully possessing an Eastern Fox Snake, which happens to be a threatened and endangered species in Michigan making it unlawful to possess. After multiple attempts at contacting the subject, COs Young and Andrew Werth finally contacted the spouse of the subject who was able to call the subject back home to handle the situation. Soon, the subject pulled in driving their vehicle and was not happy to see the DNR. After a tense few minutes and a lot of arguing about the legality of possessing the snake, the snake was finally turned over. The subject, who has had a suspended driver’s license, was cited for possessing the threatened and endangered species and given a warning of multiple driving while suspended. The subject was also advised and released on their 35 warrants. The snake was taken to a rehabber for health evaluation and to determine if it was releasable to the wild as the exact amount of time in captivity was unknown.
During a waterfowl patrol, CO Andrew Werth observed an individual leaving a boating access site carrying an abundance of weeds from his trailer. While addressing the AIS concern, the hunter expressed his lack of interest in cleaning off the weeds from his trailer. A citation was issued for transporting a trailer and watercraft without removing the aquatic organisms.
CO Brandon Vacek was patrolling Crystal Waters SGA in Monroe County in the nighttime hours waiting on the occupants of two vehicles parked in the lot to return. While on foot checking for the subjects, the CO heard a vehicle and observed headlights coming from behind the gates of the SGA where no vehicles are permitted to operate. The CO made it back to his patrol vehicle and activated his emergency lights just as the vehicle stopped near a gate and concrete barricades preventing it from exiting the SGA. After removing the four occupants from the vehicle, the driver and one of the passengers were interviewed. It was determined the group had been joy-riding the vehicle off-road inside the SGA after navigating a narrow gap between two barricades, they had also got a flat tire during their personal tour and had to change the tire. The CO discussed the importance of reading large signs posted at SGAs, the decision and safety concerns of a vehicle entering an area blocked off with barricades, and then a citation was issued to the driver for operating a vehicle on state land in an unauthorized area.
CO Jaime Salisbury was working a Belle Isle shift monitoring the speed of motorists in the park. While heading down Riverbank Drive, he noticed two 3-wheeled motorcycles traveling more than 50 mph in the bike lanes to bypass traffic. CO Salisbury was able to make his way through traffic congestion and successfully stopped them on their way back to Detroit. Citations were issued for careless operation and speeding.
