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Central Michigan Life
Friday, March 18, 2011
Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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Rise in narcotics spurs series of drug busts Four charged Monday in latest raid by BAYANET By Orrin Shawl Staff Reporter
An influx of narcotics into the area has led to three drug busts in the last three weeks by the Bay Area Narcotics Enforcement Team. Most recently, four suspects were arrested Monday afternoon on numerous drug
charges in Mount Pleasant. Cheryl Louise Haggart, 53, of Mount Pleasant was charged with seven felony counts after police said they seized various narcotics from an area residence. Amy Marie Simons, 26, of Mount Pleasant was charged with four felony counts. Detroit resident David Washington Wyche, 40, has been charged with 10 felony counts and one high court misdemeanor. Kimberly Louise Wyche, 33, of Detroit was charged with a high court
misdemeanor. Charges for the suspects included the delivery of illegal drugs and maintaining a drug house. Additionally, Haggart was charged with felony firearm possession. “It puts a little concern in the community as to what is out there and what’s available,” said Lt. Jeff Anthony, BAYANET section commander. “The two differences that are significant is that you have the large college and you have the casino. They were looking to target those
areas as well as anybody that has money and has a need or a desire to buy drugs and narcotics.” BAYANET commenced the investigation March 6 and concluded it Monday with the arrest of the four individuals. The exact locations of the residences were not released. Other arrests There was also earlier in March Comstock Park Dwane Jones, 27,
an arrest in which resident allegedly
sold heroin to an undercover officer. The illegal transaction then led to a high-speed vehicle chase in which Jones was eventually stopped in Mecosta County, after initially fleeing from Mount Pleasant. BAYANET charged 26-yearold Detroit resident Marcos Martinez II on March 10 with delivery of cocaine, intent to deliver cocaine near school property and possession of marijuana on school property. “Our investigation focused on the heroin aspect of this
distribution operation,” Anthony added. “This investigation is different in that there is a variety of drugs that are available here that you don’t generally see in every narcotics investigation.” Three search warrants were granted at residences as well as one at a storage facility. Among the drugs found were 10 grams of heroin, 2.5 grams of cocaine, more than two pounds of marijuana and 102 morphine pills. A
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I n f o r m at i o n Technology
Office lays out plan for tech’s future on campus By Michael L. Hoffman Student Life Editor
photos by sara winkler/photo editor
From left: Huntington Woods sophomore Kristen Prappas, West Bloomfield sophomore Brittany Feldman and Franklin sophomore Nick Wenette hang out together Thursday afternoon atop a car parked outside of a friend’s apartment in Polo Village off Douglas street. “I was very anxious to get out of class to have some fun. Celebration.” Wernette said. “It seems like a relaxed day. Not very crowded.”
GREEN GLORY St. Patrick’s celebrated on campus, downtown cm-life.com
By Michael L. Hoffman | Student Life Editor
Mount Pleasant was alive with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations — some better advised than others — from Anspach Hall to Main Street. Harrison Township freshman Timothy Skillman said he celebrated the holiday by staying sober and making sure his Phi Kappa Tau fraternity brothers were being safe. “I am watching out for my brothers today,” Skillman said. “Making sure the house is safe and that everybody is doing OK.” The fraternity associate said he had not seen anything too exciting over the course of his day, but he expected it to pick up.
Check out a student’s interview about how he celebrated! Evan Agnello said this year’s St. Patrick’s Day has been mellow compared to years past. The Troy senior said because the holiday is on a weekday, it is much more subdued than if it were on a weekend. “It’s been a great day,” he said. “The weather is great, the people are great. It’s been a pretty chill day, just hanging out with friends and indulging in some fun.” He said he is trying to make A St Patty’s | 2A
Canton senior Elizabeth Anderson and her boyfriend DeWitt senior Marshall Swanson share a pitcher of green beer together Tuesday afternoon for St. Patrick’s Day at the Bird Bar & Grill, 223 S. Main St. “We were already at Marty’s,” Swanson said. “We’re going to end up at O’Kelly’s to watch basketball. That’s the plan.”
Parking Services collects almost $3 million yearly Most funds generated by auto permits By Tony Wittkowski Staff Reporter
CMU Parking Services collects almost $3 million from vehicle registration, parking citations and meters every year. The revenue accumulated through Parking Services goes toward capital projects all over the university. “It all goes to the university, which is divided up by the university,” said CMU
Police Chief Bill Yeagley. The expenditure budget for the amount of money accumulated has stayed constant for the last four years, according to information from Parking Services Yeagley provided. The bulk of the money Parking Services accumulates comes from parking registration. The fiscal year begins July 1 and ends on June 30, Yeagley said. The total amount of revenue in the 2007 to 2008 year was $2,862,464, then $2,844,313 in 2008 to 2009 and $2,767,030 in 2009 to 2010, Yeagley said.
So far during the 20102011 fiscal year, $2,377,480 has been accumulated — 82 percent of which has come from vehicle registration. According to the data, about $700,000 of the total revenue generated has been spent each year. Taylor Burnell, a freshman from Waterford, did not realize how much the university received each year from Parking Services. “I was surprised by the amount they make,” Burnell said. “It seems like a lot of money for something so small.” Livonia sophomore Brit-
tany Harris said she does not think Parking Services should charge as much as they do for campus parking passes. “Commuters have to pay $175 to park somewhere,” she said. Just over 50 percent of the potential revenue from parking citations are lost because of appeals on average each year, Yeagley said. “We’re trying to be fair and reasonable with students,” Yeagley said. “Ninety-nine percent of the time the person is wrong.”
CMU is doing its best to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing world of technology. CMU’s Office of Information Technology hosted Technology Summit 2011 on Wednesday in the Bovee University Center. The daylong summit focused on where CMU stands technology-wise, and where it plans to go in the future. Roger Rehm, vice president of Information Technology, said in the keynote presentation “CMU Technology Road Map” that the university’s primary goal is making sure that students, faculty and staff are getting the most for their money when it comes to technology. “We have focused our investments on standardization and tech consolidation, but it has to work for people,” Rehm said. “We have an opportunity to focus on things that get the university the most bang for its buck.” Much of his and physical therapy Professor Peter Loubert’s question-and-answer presentation focused on what CMU is doing to cut costs and run more efficiently by utilizing certain technologies. One of the policies Rehm discussed was the PrintQ policy, which limits undergraduate students to $10 worth of printing a semester and graduate students to $15, which he said, along with other policies is estimated to save the university close to $100,000. He said when OIT was developing PrintQ they wanted to make sure they “did it right” and that it would actually reduce the amount of paper used on campus. He added he would like to see CMU move more toward cloud technol-
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Revenue collected by category Vehicle Registration: w 2007-08: $2,110,674 w 2008-09: $2,032,736 w 2009-10: $2,036,890 w 2010-11: $1,952,682
Totals: w 2007-08: $2,862,464 w 2008-09: $2,844,313 w 2009-10: $2,767,030 w 2010-11: $2,377,480
Parking Citations: w 2007-08: $621,393 w 2008-09: $679,866 w 2009-10: $583,259 w 2010-11: $325,524
Revenue spent each year (rounded): w 2007-08: $711,000 w 2008-09: $748,000 w 2009-10: $727,000 w 2010-11: $346,000
Parking Meters: w 2007-08: $130,397 w 2008-09: $131,711 w 2009-10: $146,881 w 2010-11: $99,274
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*Source: Parking Services *All numbers are as of March of that year