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Talking Trash: The search for the Trashman of Gogebic County:

Talking Trash: The search for the Trashman of Gogebic County:

U.P. Breaking News Talking Trash News Bulletin – 4-28-18 – 5:15 a.m. CT – 6:15 a.m. ET

One man’s trash, is an officer’s nightmare: “I will be more than willing to look through it,” the officer said – something stinks right here in Ironwood City

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Ironwood Township, MI) – The search is on for the Trashman of Gogebic County.

A…

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Fatal shooting investigated in Gogebic County - Investigators on scene - but possible self-inflicted means yet another U.P. resident takes their life in despair - happening almost daily - Does anyone care?

Fatal shooting investigated in Gogebic County – Investigators on scene – but possible self-inflicted means yet another U.P. resident takes their life in despair – happening almost daily – Does anyone care?

U.P. Breaking News Bulletin: – 4-13-18 – 2:10 p.m. ET 1:10 p.m. CT

Gogebic County officials investigating man found shot to death in his home

Sadly, its beginning to look like the almost daily Suicide Crisis in the U.P., takes another victim

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Ironwood, MI) – Investigators are on the scene of a fatal shooting in Gogebic County. A…

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U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 3-9-18 – 3 a.m. ET – 

Popular Minocqua, WI civic leader was victim of that accident involving his Caterpillar skid steer that plummeted through the ice on a Gogebic County Lake while he was snowplowing for a barge with a crane on its deck

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By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Watersmeet Township, MI) – A memorial service will be held Wednesday for a popular Minocqua, WI man and civic leader who was killed in that bizarre Wednesday accident when a Caterpillar skid Steer that he was driving to plow snow for a barge on a lake in Gogebic County, MI

Memorial planned for Tom Handrick, age 55 of Minocqua, WI

55-year-old Tom Handrick of Minocqua died when his heavy machine floundered and sank in broken ice next to the barge about 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 in Watersmeet Township.

The barge had a large heavy duty crane on its deck – sometimes called a derrick in larger projects. The crane had a big sign on its front that states “SAFETY!”

Handrick was the longtime owner of Lakeland Landscaping and a member of the local Lions Club and on the Minocqua Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

Divers and cold-water rescue officials recovered Handrick’s body about an hour after the freak accident and he was transported by ambulance to the Eagle River Memorial Hospital (Scroll down to read Mr. Handrick’s obituary notice).

Officials have not released who owns the barge or crane, and what it was doing on Thousand Island Lake. Numerous officials with the Lac Vieux Desert Tribal Police were on the scene.

The freak accident involved a barge, a crane, and a heavy equipment Skid Steer. Officials have not said whether any Michigan Regulatory Agencies will be investigating the crash. It is not known if it is necessary for officials to notify the Michigan Occupation Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA).

Previous stories:

https://upperpeninsulabreakingnews.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/near-vacationland-resort-in-gogebic-county-cisco-chain-of-lakes-divers-and-an-ice-water-rescue-team-are-among-those-being-request-by-police-and-fire-officials-at-the-scene-of-a-man-whose-bobcat-broke

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tom.handrick

Here is a 2009 OSHA safety report on derricks/barges with cranes on the deck: https://www.osha.gov/Publications/3358deck-barge-safety.pdf

2015 rwport on construction safety ftrom MIOSHA: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/lara/lara_miosha_CS_10_strike_bold_3_16_517763_7.pdf

Info about lake: http://www.fishweb.com/maps/gogebic/thousand_island_lake/north_channel/index.html https://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/93-10_463566_7.pdf ——- Tom Handrick was a very well-liked businessman who is life is being remember and celebrated by a large number of friends on the funeral home memorial page: http://www.nimsgernfuneral.com/obituaries/Tom-Handrick?obId=2989343#/celebrationWall

Funeral notice from the Nimsgern Funeral Home in Woodruff, WI:

Tom Handrick, age 55 of Minocqua, WI died unexpectedly on Wednesday, March 7th.

A memorial gathering for Tom will be held on Wednesday, March 14th from 3:00 to 9:00 PM with a Time for Sharing at 7:00 PM at the Nimsgern Funeral Home Chapel.

Please check back for complete obituary. http://www.nimsgernfuneral.com/obituaries/Tom-Handrick?obId=2989343#/obituaryInfo http://www.nimsgernfuneral.com

Tom Handrick and the woman he loves

Tom Handrick marriage/vows ceremony – Photo on Facebook on Dec. 25, 2017

Memorial to Tom Handrick, age 55 of Minocqua, WI

Memorial to Tom Handrick, age 55 of Minocqua, WI

Memorial to Tom Handrick, age 55 of Minocqua, WI

Memorial to Tom Handrick, age 55 of Minocqua, WI

Memorial to Tom Handrick, age 55 of Minocqua, WI

  Watersmeet Township Fatal Freak Accident Update: Memorial service set for Wednesday for popular Minocqua, WI businessman and civic leader killed in that freak accident on Thousand Island Lake in Gogebic County U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 3-9-18 – 3 a.m. ET –  Popular Minocqua, WI civic leader was victim of that accident involving his Caterpillar skid steer that plummeted through the ice on a Gogebic County Lake while he was snowplowing for a barge with a crane on its deck…

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Near Vacationland Resort in Gogebic County Cisco Chain of Lakes: Divers and an ice water rescue team are among those being request by police and fire officials at the scene of a man whose Bobcat broke through the ice and submerged while snow plowing for a stuck barge

Near Vacationland Resort in Gogebic County Cisco Chain of Lakes: Divers and an ice water rescue team are among those being request by police and fire officials at the scene of a man whose Bobcat broke through the ice and submerged while snow plowing for a stuck barge

URGENT URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 3-7-18 – 11:50 a.m. CT

Massive ice water rescue in Gogebic County’s Land of a Thousand Lakes area – Man on Bobcat disappears while snowplowing next to a barge – and the water overwhelmed the approximately two-foot thick ice – victim found in water

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Gogebic County, MI) – A massive…

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URGENT URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 2-11-18 – 2:52 p.m. CT – 3:52 p.m. ET

Gogebic Iron SWAT Team activated on a Sunday – Call in Bessemer, MI area

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

**If you have information on this event – please privately contact U.P. Breaking News

(Bessemer, MI) – The Gogebic Iron SWAT Team was activated this Sunday afternoon for a situation in Bessemer, MI.

SWAT Team was paged at 1:50 p.m. CT on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018.

U.P. Breaking News decided to hold this story for about an hour – to give police time to respond.

The Gogebic Iron SWAT Team was paged and told to gather at the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department.

The incident is said to be in the Bessemer, MI area. All police/EMS feeds from that end of the U.P. abruptly ended about 2:15 p.m. CT – could be coincidence..

The team has been used in many drug raids and to help end hostage/domestic type situations.

No injuries have been reported.

Temps will continue to drop to dangerous levels below zero (-16 F, -25 wind-chill) as day turns to evening and into night.

Gogebic Iron SWAT Team paged into the sheriff’s office for a call in Bessemer, MI area – details not yet known URGENT URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 2-11-18 – 2:52 p.m. CT - 3:52 p.m. ET…

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In a series of press release, Upper Peninsula drug teams announced today they had made numerous meth and pill drug busts in past few days

By Greg Peterson S.E. Social Justice Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

  n Houghton County, Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement team (UPSET)  arrested two men in connection with a meth investigation:

The suspects are:

35-year-old Terry Bartlett of Houghton, MI and a 29-year-old  Hancock, MI man. U.P. Breaking News is still trying to confirm the name of the Hancock man.

Meanwhile in deputies raided a meth and heroin drug house in Menominee , MI on Fri., Dec. 5, 2018 – located across from the Menominee High School and arrested four suspects.

Three suspects were arrested on immediately on warrants by the Menominee County Sheriff’s department. During the search, the person in charge of the residence showed up and was arrested.

Six charges have been filed against the four subjects who remain  in the Menominee County Jail. The charges include possession of heroin and meth, possession of meth with intent to deliver within a school zone, and maintaining a drug house.

Police confiscated a small  amount of heroin and meth plus many items needed to run a drug ring and package drugs for sale

 Officers found baggies used for packaging narcotics, over 100 syringe needles, a ledger to account for drug sales, digital scales and more.

The suspects even had Narcan, that can be used to save a person’s life during an opioid overdose.

In Wakefield, MI, two people were arrested Friday by the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics team (GIANT). 

38-year-old Paul Robert Rooni and 45-year-old Jessica Ann Boggetto are both charged with  conspiracy to deliver of a Schedule 2 controlled substance – a seven-year felony,  and a high court misdemeanor of maintaining a drug house that carries two years if convicted.

Boggetto is also charged possession of a Schedule 2 controlled substance, a two-year felony.

Rooni and Boggetto are both currently lodged at the Gogebic County Jail on a $200,000 at 10 percent bond.

GIANT was assisted with a search warrant by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

To contact GIANT or report something to them, you can call their toll-free number at 1-855-644-4219 or email them at giantdrugteam@gmail.com.

Drug busts: Meth, pill arrests across the U.P. – Houghton, Menominee, and Wakefield In a series of press release, Upper Peninsula drug teams announced today they had made numerous meth and pill drug busts in past few days…

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In a series of press release, Upper Peninsula drug teams announced today they had made numerous meth and pill drug busts in past few days

By Greg Peterson S.E. Social Justice Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

  n Houghton County, Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement team (UPSET)  arrested two men in connection with a meth investigation:

The suspects are:

35-year-old Terry Bartlett of Houghton, MI and a 29-year-old  Hancock, MI man. U.P. Breaking News is still trying to confirm the name of the Hancock man.

Meanwhile in deputies raided a meth and heroin drug house in Menominee , MI on Fri., Dec. 5, 2018 – located across from the Menominee High School and arrested four suspects.

Three suspects were arrested on immediately on warrants by the Menominee County Sheriff’s department. During the search, the person in charge of the residence showed up and was arrested.

Six charges have been filed against the four subjects who remain  in the Menominee County Jail. The charges include possession of heroin and meth, possession of meth with intent to deliver within a school zone, and maintaining a drug house.

Police confiscated a small  amount of heroin and meth plus many items needed to run a drug ring and package drugs for sale

 Officers found baggies used for packaging narcotics, over 100 syringe needles, a ledger to account for drug sales, digital scales and more.

The suspects even had Narcan, that can be used to save a person’s life during an opioid overdose.

In Wakefield, MI, two people were arrested Friday by the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics team (GIANT). 

38-year-old Paul Robert Rooni and 45-year-old Jessica Ann Boggetto are both charged with  conspiracy to deliver of a Schedule 2 controlled substance – a seven-year felony,  and a high court misdemeanor of maintaining a drug house that carries two years if convicted.

Boggetto is also charged possession of a Schedule 2 controlled substance, a two-year felony.

Rooni and Boggetto are both currently lodged at the Gogebic County Jail on a $200,000 at 10 percent bond.

GIANT was assisted with a search warrant by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

To contact GIANT or report something to them, you can call their toll-free number at 1-855-644-4219 or email them at giantdrugteam@gmail.com.

Drug busts: Meth, pill arrests across the U.P. – Houghton, Menominee, and Wakefield In a series of press release, Upper Peninsula drug teams announced today they had made numerous meth and pill drug busts in past few days…

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Fatal accident on M-95 - pedestrian hit by vehicle - wraps up terrible day on the roads of the Upper Peninsula: Semi tractor trailer hauling lumber crashes near McFarland, Grader hit and run in Gogebic County

Fatal accident on M-95 – pedestrian hit by vehicle – wraps up terrible day on the roads of the Upper Peninsula: Semi tractor trailer hauling lumber crashes near McFarland, Grader hit and run in Gogebic County

URGENT URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin and Traffic Advisory – 1-4-18 – 10 p.m. ET – Fatal crash on M-95 near Republic, MI

Upper Peninsula Roads remain deadly

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Upper Peninsula of Michigan) – Hundreds of crashes occurred across the Upper Peninsula on Thursday thanks to slippery roads and snow – starting with a grader crash…

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Gogebic County, MI suffers a second snowmobile fatality in two days at end of 2017

U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 12-30-17 2:20 p.m. CT –

For the second day in a row – a snowmobiler is killed in a crash in Gogebic County in the western U.P.

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Bessemer Township, MI) – A snowmobiler was killed this afternoon when his sled collided with a pickup truck on U.S.-2.

The crash was reported just after 1 p.m. CT this…

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Ironwood Township apartment fire threatens entire building

URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin: 12-29-17 9:45 p.m. CT – Ironwood Township apartment fire threatened entire building

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Ironwood, MI) – Firefighters and police are at an apartment fire that threatens the entire building in the Western Upper Peninsula.

An additional fire department was called for mutual aid minutes ago.

The…

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Fatal snowmobile crash in Gogebic County - dozens of other wrecks involving vehicles of all kinds

Fatal snowmobile crash in Gogebic County – dozens of other wrecks involving vehicles of all kinds

URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin: 12-29-17 11:32 a.m. CT

Terrible snowmobile crash near Bessemer, MI – there have been several fatal crashes with the sleds in the U.P. recent week

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Bessemer, MI) – A fatal snowmobile crash in Gogebic County just before noon and dozens of motor vehicle crashes across U.P.

CPR was performed…

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Watersmeet Township, MI: Six-year-old girl receives head injuries Thursday night in bed bunk accident - Should be warning to all parents this holiday season as bed bunk injuries happen more often than you think

Watersmeet Township, MI: Six-year-old girl receives head injuries Thursday night in bed bunk accident – Should be warning to all parents this holiday season as bed bunk injuries happen more often than you think

U.P. Breaking News Bulletin and Urgent Safety Warning/Reminder – 12-21-17 – 11:20 p.m. Central Time

Watersmeet Township six-year-old girl receives head injuries and rushed to hospital after Thursday night bed bunk accident

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Gogebic County, MI) – An ambulance, law enforcement and first responders were called late Thursday night…

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URGENT - Massive Search for two brothers lost in thick woods in western U.P. - and one may have a broken hand

URGENT – Massive Search for two brothers lost in thick woods in western U.P. – and one may have a broken hand

URGENT – HAPPENING NOW – U.P. Breaking News Search Advisory 12-2-17 4:30 p.m. CT 5:30 ET

Massive nighttime search for two brothers – one of whom is injured – in the western U.P.

Gogebic County Search and Rescue and others search for missing men

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Ironwood Township, MI) – Dozens of searchers have begun combing the thick woods of…

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Wind already causing power line issues in the U.P. - Don't be surprised if your power goes out or trees tumble overnight - already power lines down in Houghton and Gogebic counties

Wind already causing power line issues in the U.P. – Don’t be surprised if your power goes out or trees tumble overnight – already power lines down in Houghton and Gogebic counties

U.P. Breaking News Weather and Wind Damage Advisory  11-27-17 9:30 p.m.

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Upper Peninsula of Michigan) – The wind has been howling over the Upper Peninsula – and damage reports are already coming in from Houghton and Gogebic counties.

Moments ago, firefighters were dispatched to downed power lines in Houghton County near the…

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Three snowmobile accidents in western U.P. and NE Wisconsin show need for extra care including with the lake-effect and blowing snow after strange (so-called) winter weather in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Alcohol believed factor in snowmobile crash early today, Sat., Jan. 28, 2017

Three snowmobile accidents in western U.P. and NE Wisconsin show need for extra care including with the lake-effect and blowing snow after strange (so-called) winter weather in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Alcohol believed factor in snowmobile crash early today, Sat., Jan. 28, 2017

One early morning wreck in Houghton County already early today: Sat., Jan. 28, 2017 Take it easy on the trails: Speed, Alcohol and unpredictable Upper Peninsula snowmobile trails are bad mixture

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Upper Peninsula of Michigan) – Three snowmobile accidents – including one this morning in Houghton County – have been reported since…

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Yooper Scooper: Police Pop Port Huron Porter - plus escapees on hoof and snowmobile this morning

Yooper Scooper: Police Pop Port Huron Porter – plus escapees on hoof and snowmobile this morning

U.P. Breaking News “Come to the U.P. – but beware if you have warrants” 1-18-17 5:30 a.m. ET

Port Huron says you can run but you can’t hide – even in the midst of the U.P. winter – plus the escapees Woman busted in Ironwood traffic stop this morning – to answer for numerous warrants 600 miles away in Port Huron, MI – St. Clair County

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273…