Officer charged with perjury



A preliminary examina­tion for a former Constan­tine reserve police officer charged with lying in testi­mony he gave to prosecutors investigating the 2007 death of 11-year-old Jodi Parrack was postponed last week for a second time.
The attorney for de­fendant Raymond McCann II requested post­ponement and the matter has been rescheduled for July 9 before District Judge Robert Pattison.
McCann has been in the St. Joseph County Jail since his arraignment on the per­jury charge April 19. He is being held on $ 225,000 bond.
A Michigan State Police arrest affidavit alleges McCann lied in sworn testimony he gave during a September 2012 prosecutor’s investigative subpoena, part of a cold­-case probe into Parrack’s homicide.
McCann has not been charged with the homicide, but investigators say he has been a person of interest since Parrack’s death in November 2007.