5 YEARS AGO January 2, 2020
Justin Bembeneck apologized Monday to victims of the county’s most noteworthy crime of 2019.
But this had little impact on the length of his sentence. Bembeneck will spend the next 30 to 60 years with the Michigan Department of Corrections for his role in the robbery and assault of an elderly couple and two adult men in Cedar on Jan. 10, 2019. “I apologize to the Rosinski family,” he said. *** A new Verizon Wireless telecommunications tower might be built on the Leelanau County Government Center campus this year that could substantially improve notoriously spotty cell phone service in parts of the county. At its regular monthly meeting in December, the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners voted 5-1 to authorize County Administrator Chet Janik to engage in negotiations
