A Bay City, Michigan commissioner who says he was trying to clean up
the yard of a blighted home now is facing a
Reports are that Chad Sibley was arraigned this
month on larceny of $200 or less, which is punishable by up to 93 days in jail
and a fine of $500 or three times the value of the property.
Police reports say Jeana L. Wolcott told officers in April
she recently lost ownership of her home due to unpaid property taxes and said
she had until July to get out. She told police that a lawn mower and grill were
missing from her backyard.
Sibley told police he took the grill and broken mower to the
curb. Trash pickers apparently took them away.
"I have been cleaning up the backyard of that
house," he said, according to the report. "The house is a blighted
property. I haven't seen anyone at that house in months. Once the house was
foreclosed, I started to take down the fence and I cut a bunch of the Mulberry
trees down. I took a grill and a broken lawn mower to the curb. I know it was
broken because it had no connection piece. These things haven't been moved for
months.
"I am just trying to clean it up because it looked bad.
I am certainly willing to replace anything that they say was taken or damaged.
I figured if the new owners wanted the fence back up that I could just pay for
a brand new one."
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