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“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

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Former Romulus police chief pleads guilty in corruption case


By Jackie Harrison-Martin
The News-Herald
DETROIT — Several weeks prior to going on trial for numerous charges in a corruption case, a former Romulus police chief has pleaded guilty.
Michael St. Andre was set to go on trial next month, but pleaded guilty to racketeering, embezzlement and misconduct charges Wednesday in Wayne County Circuit Court.
Sentencing is set for Oct. 17 before Judge Michael Hathaway.
St. Andre’s wife, Sandra Kay Vlaz St. Andre, also faced charges stemming from the corruption case and was convicted in a jury trial in February.
She was convicted of acquiring/maintaining a criminal enterprise and criminal enterprise-conspiracy, failure to file taxes/false return and receiving and concealing stolen property.
She was sentenced to 7 to 20 years.
Former detectives Richard Allan Balzer, Richard Bruce Landry, Donald Ralph Hopkins, Jeremy James Channells and Larry Droege, also were charged in the case.
Droege was found guilty of misconduct in office and neglect of duty and Channells was found guilty of two counts of misconduct in office and neglect of duty in early March.
Trials for the remaining officers are set to take place in August.
 It is alleged that between January 2006 and September 2011 each repeatedly made, or assisted others in making, material misrepresentations of fact in connection with expense reports they submitted in an effort to seek improper reimbursement; created fraudulent documents to support improper expenditures of drug forfeiture funds; obstructed justice; made false statements in police reports; and ultimately misused Romulus funds for their own personal gain.
Prosecutors said the drug forfeiture money was used to buy a tanning salon for Sandra Kay Vlaz St. Andre, as well as pay for prostitutes, marijuana and alcohol.