Mid-Michigan man accused of stalking juvenile, attacking her home with Molotov cocktails

A 25-year-old Mount Nice man is being jailed in Livingston County on a $1 million bond, accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a house as his stalking of a youth escalated into an assault on their residence.

Authorities in Brighton Township had been first alerted at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, after a number of bottles of flammable materials had been thrown at a house on Burson Drive, inflicting a hearth, the Livingston County Sheriff’s Workplace reported Friday, Dec. 5.

Inside lower than a day, Mount Nice law enforcement officials had the suspect in custody in mid-Michigan and he was transported to the Livington County Jail to await felony expenses within the county simply northwest of Metro Detroit.

Now Alex Buley-Neumar is being held within the county jail on a $1 million bond and faces 4 felony expenses.

On Monday, December 1, he was arraigned within the 53rd District Courtroom on expenses of manufacture/possession of a Molotov cocktail inflicting hurt, a potential 20-year felony; critical stalking of a minor, punishable by as much as ten years in jail; utilizing a pc to commit against the law, additionally a ten-year felony; and soliciting a baby for immoral functions, a four-year felony.

When emergency responders arrived on the Burson Drive residence in a residential space, the fires had been extinguished by “alert neighbors… stopping a catastrophic end result,” the Livingston County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a press release. The home is roughly an hour and 40 minute drive from Mt. Nice.

Officers discovered proof of the incendiary units and documented the hearth injury. Investigators then found that the violence was associated to “an ongoing stalking and harassment case involving a minor sufferer through social media platforms.”

And the suspect was recognized, prompting sheriff’s detectives to work with police investigators and officers in a single day to find him.

The following day at 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 29, Buley-Neumar was taken into custody by Mount Nice officers with out incident, the sheriff’s workplace stated.

Sheriff’s officers additionally needed to remind mother and father and households to “become involved and concentrate on what they’re doing on social media and who they’re speaking to.”

The sheriff’s workplace didn’t present the age or gender of the stalking sufferer.

Buley-Neumar is due again in court docket on December 9 at 8 a.m. for a possible trigger convention earlier than Decide Shauna Murphy. A preliminary investigation is at present scheduled for December 16.

He was represented on the arraignment by a court-appointed legal professional and has requested it for the continued case, in accordance with court docket information.