Several months ago a man was put on trial for child molesting. There were a lot of people complaining that
it was all a set up by the police and court to get revenge on the man for something that didn't have anything to do with
the charges. In fact the prosecutor's office put the man on the CSC list months before
the trial, leaving the manipulation of the jury up to the judge. Two young girls who the police knew to be
terrible liars were the accusers. The girls parents testified that the girls were lying and that they had lied before
for mutual gain. (pg.11) The local paper, the Daily Gossip, (misnamed the Daily News), in a front page story said the man's lawyer Peter Kivisaari
had "made some mistakes" whereas the paper was covering for that miscarriage of justice. In fact the Daily
News is the first line of defense for the crooked courts and businesses in Iron Mountain. This little rag sheets editor won't
print a thing about his friends, never mind that a lot of it would be in the best interest and safety of the community. Of
course he never mentioned all charges being dropped against me either. The locals are very afraid of the law, judges, prosecutors
and business owners, and rightfully so. All they know is hatred and revenge.
The local bank, The 'First National Bank of Crystal Falls, gave a loco local my bank account name. I don't
want to go into this too much as the idiot in question has several grandchildren in the area and kids can be way too
cruel to their classmates. This idiot then threatened to burn my house down. I called the bank manager about giving out
an account holders name. He said he had an obligation to because he was treating it as a suspicious account and was turning
it in to some banking org. for suspicious accounts.
(5) My first experience with the Dickinson Co. courts, the honorable Judge
Kusz, Mi. State Police Trooper Kevin Provost, and Chief Assistant Prosecutor Carl
Downing was in April of 03 when a guy tried passing me while going up a hill and crossing the double yellow line.
I thought the moron got hit so I pulled over. The guy called State Police Trooper Provost and said I tried cutting
him off. When I told Provost what had happened Provost said "I don't believe he would do such a thing" and
gave me a ticket for cutting the guy off. I went to the prosecutors office and talked to Chief Assistant Prosecutor Downing.
I asked Mr. Downing if I could have a hearing on the ticket. Downing said I could go before Judge Kusz in a informal hearing.
I asked if I could present my proof that everything on the ticket was false, that it couldn't have possibly happened like
the officer reported. Downing asked me what happened. I told him what had happened and that I was driving a motor
home with an entire fiberglass body and there wasn't a scratch on it, and Mr. Steppig, (the moron), had a Chrysler mini van
that was smashed in on the right front fender, an all metal body with sharp protruding fender wells with primer and rust
on the rt. front fender. Mr. Downing repeated, "You can try the informal hearing, but remember my position is to do what
I can for the state. I said, "I sent for the construction reports through the freedom of information act. It shows
just how misleading the officer's report is. Will I be able to show it? All I want is for the judge to see what really happened".
Downing said, "That's what those hearings are for is to get to the truth of things". I said, "Thanks",
and had the informal hearing scheduled.
I went to
the hearing. The first very upsetting thing I see is the honorable Judge Kusz sitting on
the bench in a drunken stupor weaving back and forth. Throughout the hearing I see him making stupid faces at the stenographer
and she would stop typing. I asked several times if she was recording and was told she was. Then Mi. State Police Officer Provost took the stand. The first thing he did was change his
accident report. Next he outright lied and said there was a 45 m.p.h. speed limit sign and that I said I was going 55.
I wanted the judge to look at the original report and he said it was, "all irrelevant". I then told him
that I had sent for the road report from the state and it specifically stated that the speed limit was 55 and there were
no speed restrictions where officer Provost testified there were. More drunken faces and the stenographer stops
typing and the honorable Judge Kusz says (with a drunken slur), said that it was all
irrelevant. Then he starts making faces at prosecutor Downing and motioning to the hallway door. Downing didn't understand
what he wanted and walked up to the bench and Kusz whispers to Downing. Downing then went out in the hall (twice) and
had Steppig come back on the stand changing his story from totally unbelievable to just plain crazy rantings. When
Downing went out in the hall he told Steppig, "You're going to have to come back in and give us something better to go
on". At that point they were out of hearing range. (It cost me several hundred dollars in
sporting equipment to get on the good side of Steppigs son well enough to ask him what went on in the hall where he
and his father were waiting). Steppig and Downing came back in the courtroom and for the second time Steppig
changed his story from bizarre to unbelievable, going along more with the troopers revised report. Of course I was found guilty
and had to pay a $100 fine.
The only possible reason
that I can think of that made Provost plan out this ordeal is I had received a jury form
about 6 mos. prior to this and tried answering the question, "Is there any reason that I thought I could not serve
as a good juror. I replied that I didn't think I would make a fair juror because I didn't know if I could believe the police,
because of a experience I had with the police lying under oath. Judge Mary Brouillette Barglinds (23) office is where the forms are reviewed. I think she conspired with Provost to teach me a lesson as to
her having a personal problem with a juror that she and/or her colleagues couldn't count on for their desired results. This
would also explain Judge Barglinds outrageous actions at a PPO hearing. I had payed
out over $100 in subpoenas for witnesses to appear on April 28th at a hearing to dismiss a PPO order. On April the
21st I got a form from Judge Barglinds office where she changed the date to April the 26th., (pg9) (pg20) back to pg.15
I managed to avoid trooper Provost for the next three years,
when about Friday Feb/2/06, he started setting up his next scheme, conspiring with a gas station manager. I say, "conspiring," because the entire ordeal was fabricated from the start. Provost went into the local
gas station asking for Toni, (the store manager- 23) I know this from what two of the employees told me and that they thought the store owner had given Toni, a
black eye for going out on him!. (The week of Jan.27th 06, Toni was coming to work with a huge black eye). It was
the morning of Feb. 9th when they told me about the 2nd and that Toni would have them fired if they said anything to
me about Provost coming in. Both of these employees were later told by Toni that she would fire them if they didn't say
that they heard me threaten to "get her" I saw one of them at a grocery store around July 10th. She
told me that Toni said that they would have to make statements to the prosecutor stating that I said I was out to get her.
The prosecutor couldn't use the statements, though. My lawyer said it was highly prejudicial since it was 4 mos. after
Provost and Toni first started their scam and 3 mos. after Toni had filled out a P.P.O.
I called Toni's, (Antoine Christian) house Jan. 29th. and asked for her
husband. She said he wasn't there, but when she and Provost got together on Feb. 2nd, she told him that I was trying
to make trouble for her, that when I called for her husband, I wanted to get her in trouble by telling him about her dating
some delivery guy from Marquette, Mi. The two employees said they had the idea that the guy was a friend of Provost's also,
and that Provost came in quite often to visit Toni. I had actually wanted to talk to Toni's husband about her
going home every morning to put their dogs out and leaving them out in the freezing weather all day for the
sole reason of making them bark to get in out of the cold. The employees then said that officer Provost asked Toni if there
was somewhere they could talk, Provost and Toni then went outside and talked. They came back in the store and Provost said
to Toni, "Tell Ron you talked to me and I'll see what I can do, I had problems with that guy a few years ago. If he gives
you any more trouble just pick up the phone. We'll deal with him then. Toni said, "Oh I'm sure I will and when
I do I'll call you". After Provost left Toni told the two employees to keep track of when I came in and let her
know what day and time it was. On Feb. 8th. Provost came to my house and accused me of calling Toni no less then 5 times and
barking at her over the phone. He said he wouldn't turn the complaint in for prosecution if I didn't call her again. He then
went back to the BP station and told Toni that he had talked to me and that I admitted to him that I made the calls but she
would still need more than me barking at her over the phone if she wanted to get me arrested. That he would leave the complaint
open and would keep in touch. This upset Toni as she thought he was going to have me in jail by that evening.
Through the summer of 05 and the winter of 06 I heard all
kinds of things that were supposed to have been going on with Toni and her lovers, not paying too much attention as I really
didn't care or feel it was any of my business though I couldn't help but think there must be something between her and the
store owner. One day she kicked a log truck driver out for telling her off when she told him if he couldn't stop tipping the
Deli people that he didn't need to come back. The trucker and his friend told her to go to hell and left. I saw the truckers
in the store at least 3 times a week when I was there and they bought fuel at least one of those days every week plus breakfast
and lotto tickets. I figure the owner lost at least $60,000 a year between me and the two truckers. He owns 9 BP stations,
so I can see where $60,000 a year isn't going to break him. I guess the owner wasn't all that hot for her though. He fired
her about a mo. after the PPO hearing of 6/21/06. February 14/06, Provost went back to the BP station continuing
his conspiracy with Mrs. Christian. (continued pg.4)
