9/10/13 - The trial date has been postponed for a Whitmore Lake man charged after a Hamburg Township restaurant break-in. The trial date for 33-year-old Michael Scott Russell was pushed out six weeks to mid-October in Livingston County Circuit Court. Prosecutors advised the court last Friday of evidence sent to the MSP crime lab in Lansing for testing, which prompted the defense to request a testing of DNA. Russell faces charges of breaking and entering, possession of burglary tools and 3rd degree fleeing from officers. He and co-defendant, 29-year-old Bryan James Hardy of Ann Arbor, were charged after Hamburg Township Police responded to a burglar alarm at a restaurant July 9th of 2012 and found the back door to the business forced open. Officers spotted an SUV speeding away onto M-36 and gave chase before the SUV crashed into a railroad signal west of Island Shore Drive. Officers arrested Hardy at the scene while Russell and a Whitmore Lake woman fled in a stolen Jeep. They were arrested later that day in an apartment complex in Ypsilanti but the woman was never charged. Hardy was sentenced in July to 67 days of jail time already served and two years of probation. (JM)
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