MASON, Mich. (WLNS) — A enterprise proprietor scheduled to be sworn on this week to function a trustee of the Delhi Township Trustee was discovered responsible of violating probation by means of fifty fifth District Court docket on Oct. 29 and ordered to serve sooner or later of neighborhood service.
Patrick A. DeRosa, 71, who had been concerned in an ongoing dispute with the township, had been given probation in a plea settlement in September stemming from a misdemeanor cost of tried assaulting or obstructing a police officer.
These prices emerged from a virtually hour-long stand-off on June 17 with Ingham County sheriff’s deputies who had gone to his dwelling in response to 2 welfare calls.
Patrick A. DeRosa, 71, is a Delhi Township Trustee-elect. He was arrested on June 17 for an incident at his dwelling on Eiffert Highway. (Courtesy Ingham County Jail/WLNS)
Within the plea settlement permitted by the court docket on Sept. 16, the misdemeanor tried assaulting or obstructing a police officer was downgraded to a cost of disorderly individual jostling, and DeRosa was positioned on probation for 12 months, court docket data reveal.
In a cellphone name with 6 Information, DeRosa alleges the arrest and prices had been based mostly on “a false police report.” He claims he was pressured to enter the plea deal.
Nevertheless, on Oct. 29, Ingham County Probation Officer Rikki Anger filed a probation violation summons in fifty fifth District Court docket, alleging that DeRosa had failed a probation-required alcohol breath take a look at on Oct. 20. The violation additionally alleges he then failed to indicate up for alcohol testing on Oct. 23 and Oct. 26.
Delhi Township Trustee-elect Patrick DeRosa was charged with violating his probation. (Court docket document from fifty fifth District Court docket/WLNS)
District Court docket Decide Richard Hillman Jr. in a listening to on Nov. 14 discovered DeRosa responsible of violating the probation phrases and ordered him to serve sooner or later of neighborhood service. Court docket data don’t reveal if he has accomplished this service.
“I did not drink any alcohol. You ever hear of a false positive?” DeRosa tells 6 Information in a cellphone interview. “I’m a pharmacist. I don’t do drugs. I was raised in a party store. I don’t do alcohol. I have two beers, maybe, when I go to the bar.”
‘70 YO M BIPOLAR POSSIBLY SUICIDAL’
The unique cost stemmed from an incident on a June 17 at DeRosa’s dwelling within the 1300 block of Eiffert Highway. 6 Information obtained a Delhi Township Hearth Division Incident Element Report from the decision, and the 4-page doc reveals the minute-by-minute actions of dispatchers, emergency medical crews and Ingham County Sheriff’s Deputies.
Sheriff deputies had been initially dispatched at 6:59 p.m. to DeRosa’s dwelling on a welfare verify. An unidentified individual referred to as emergency officers, involved that DeRosa was suicidal.
Deputies on the scene reported DeRosa was “pretty agitated” and “refused” to exit his dwelling. At 8:08 p.m., deputies on the scene reported relations had been at DeRosa’s dwelling making an attempt to coax DeRosa from the house, however he was hostile. Sheriff’s deputies decided a pressured entry was pointless, regardless of DeRosa making “suicidal statements,” and closed the incident at 8:38 p.m. the report reveals.
Incident report associated to the arrest of Patrick A. DeRosa June 17. (WLNS)
Incident report associated to the arrest of Patrick A. DeRosa June 17. (WLNS)
Incident report associated to the arrest of Patrick A. DeRosa June 17. (WLNS)
Incident report associated to the arrest of Patrick A. DeRosa June 17. (WLNS)
However, at 9 p.m., dispatchers obtained a name that DeRosa had a knife. Inside minutes, the report reveals, emergency medical crews had been staged close by whereas a number of deputies responded.
On arrival, deputies reported DeRosa was in his truck “threatening to ram family’s vehicles.” He was locked in his truck with a “pocket knife” within the middle console. The incident report reveals DeRosa turned up his radio in an try to keep away from speaking with deputies, the report stated.
In the end, deputies opened his passenger door and deployed a chemical munition twice. He was taken into custody.
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Delhi Township Hearth Division transported him to McLaren Hospital. He was subsequently arrested and transported to the Ingham County Jail. The incident report is unclear as to when DeRosa was transported to the jail.
DeRosa alleges he sustained accidents throughout the battle with deputies in June and is “suing” Ingham County over the arrest. A search of on-line data for the Ingham County thirtieth Circuit Court docket reveals no case has been filed.
A screenshot of the Ingham County thirtieth Circuit Court docket on-line data seek for Patrick DeRosa civil circumstances. (WLNS)
“That’s a false police report. What they said – I threatened somebody with a knife?” DeRosa says. “I did not.”
He did, nevertheless, conform to plead responsible to the misdemeanor cost of disorderly individual, jostling. This cost just isn’t well-defined in Michigan regulation, however the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as “to come in contact or into collision with,” or “to force by pushing.”
“I pled guilty because they forced me to plead guilty,” DeRosa says. “Do you understand that? God darn it. Nobody listens.”
‘I won that election’
Screenshot of the 2024 licensed elections outcomes from the Ingham County Clerk’s web site. (WLNS)
Regardless of his authorized entanglements, DeRosa handily gained his publish on the Delhi Township Board of Trustees on Nov. 5. Official election outcomes from the Ingham County clerk present DeRosa completed the race with 146 extra votes than three candidates in a race to fill 4 seats. He obtained 9,854 votes, 25.04% of the 38,873 ballots solid within the 4-person race. He had completed third in a 6-way major in August.
“I’m bipolar, and I won that election on my name and my family reputation,” DeRosa says.
DeRosa and his household have been mainstays of Delhi Township enterprise and political life.
Patrick DeRosa has owned and operated Candy Sensations, 1963 Cedar St., since 1977. The enterprise was initially begun as J.D.’s Dairy Enjoyment of 1965, by Anthony and Ida DeRosa and household, the enterprise’ web site says.
He says his household has owned a grocery retailer, get together retailer and extra.
Within the cellphone interview, DeRosa stated he was a pharmacist. Michigan Division of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Communications Director Abby Rubbley tells 6 Information DeRosa’s pharmacy and management substances licenses “lapsed” on June 30, 2012.
Trespassing
It was a dispute about his enterprise pursuits that led to a no-trespass order in opposition to DeRosa that was filed by Delhi Township in September 2023. That order expired this previous September, Delhi Township Supervisor Tracy Miller tells 6 Information by electronic mail.
DeRosa twice had violated the no-trespassing order and was criminally charged in fifty fifth District Court docket data present. On April 29, DeRosa pleaded responsible to 1 rely of misdemeanor trespassing, and in alternate, a second rely was dismissed. He was ordered to pay $950 in court docket fines and prices.
He contends he was pressured to enter a responsible plea on the trespassing prices.
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“They said I threatened somebody at the township,” he says. “I did not threaten anybody. I’ve never threatened anybody in my life.”
He was offended with the township, he says, as a result of a tenant for one of many properties he owns in Delhi Township had didn’t pay a sewer invoice. Township officers tacked the overdue invoice to his property tax.
He argues his household’s enterprise legacy, courting again to the Nineteen Fifties, and a historical past of paying his property tax payments meant he ought to have gotten a letter warning him of the overdue invoice earlier than a lien was positioned on his property.
All through the practically 13-minute cellphone name with 6 Information, DeRosa repeatedly threatened to sue 6 Information and Ingham County Sheriff Division officers. However he says he’ll take the oath of workplace on Wednesday and serve his 4-year time period.
“It should be exciting board meetings. I suggest you attend some of the board meetings, because it’s gonna be exciting,” he tells 6 Information. “Because this township has sold out to big developers. They have. Just look at Cedar Street.”
