NOTE: This story has been up to date to extra precisely mirror the deceased’s legal historical past.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Eaton County Sheriff’s Workplace has opened a murder investigation after discovering skeletal stays whereas responding to a hearth.
The sheriff’s workplace stories Windsor Twp. Hearth Division and Eaton County deputies responded to stories of a construction hearth within the 10000 block of E. Vermontville Hwy in Windsor Twp. on Feb 10 at roughly 3:08 p.m.
First responders put out the fireplace in two “outbuildings” and found skeletal stays among the many particles.
The Eaton County Sheriff’s Workplace detective bureau, the College of Michigan-Sparrow Medical Examiner’s Workplace and the Michigan State Police Forensic Science Division labored collectively for over a month to establish the stays.
The Michigan State Police Crime Lab recognized the stays final week as belonging to Lance Pollo, a 38-year-old man from Lansing.
The sheriff’s workplace stories that medical experts have decided that Pollo was shot and killed. They’re now investigating the incident as a murder.
Pollo was sentenced on one cost of fourth-degree legal sexual conduct in April 2018 and spent lower than a 12 months behind bars.
Relations inform 6 Information he spent 30 days in Clinton County Jail on a examine fraud conviction, which led to a violation of his phrases of probation for his legal sexual conduct cost. That probation violation led him to spend one other 60 days in Ingham County Jail, his household tells 6 Information. Deputies say he was launched on Feb. 1.
Deputies say they’re his previous legal historical past and different avenues of investigation to assist monitor down leads.
“Anybody that may have had contact with him, anybody that knows him, knows his associates, his friends, anybody that’s willing to come forward with any information that can help us…We can’t do it without the public’s help,” mentioned Lt. Aaron Campbell, Eaton County Sheriff’s Workplace Detective.
If in case you have any info that would help on this investigation, contact Detective Ted Johnson at 517-213-6121 or D/Lieutenant Aaron Campbell at 517-543-5419.
You can additionally submit suggestions anonymously by way of our crime tip line at 517-543-5433 or electronic mail crimetips@eatoncounty.org.
