Last week, five young men from downstate were arrested after allegedly burglarizing a Bay County marijuana store then leading police on a two-county chase. The pursuit ended after the alleged thieves’ crashed their stolen truck into a civilian’s vehicle, then were collided into by a Michigan State Police trooper.
The five suspects are now facing myriad charges resulting from their ill-advised heist. On Monday, March 20, the quintet of Anthony D. Phifer, 19; Darreion R. Fisher, 21; Antonio A. Belenor, 21; Demetrius K. Johnson-Holmes, 18; and Dailyon K. Fields, 18, appeared in Bay County District Court for arraignment on a combined 27 charges.
All five defendants are charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny, conspiracy to commit that crime, larceny of more than $20,000, and assaulting, resisting, or obstructing police. All save Belenor are also charged with possessing burglary tools.
Fields faces the most counts, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, receiving and concealing a stolen, and third-degree fleeing and eluding police, in addition to the five aforementioned charges.
Phifer and Fields reside in Lansing, while Fisher, Johnson-Holmes, and Belenor hail from Battle Creek.
Though the group’s alleged crimes spanned Bay and Saginaw counties, they are only being charged in the former as that’s where the initial acts took place, said Saginaw County Assistant Prosecutor Blair N. Stevenson.
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