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Michigan Cornerback Raves About Pre-Draft Visit With Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have brought in a number of high-profile draft prospects for Top 30 visits, including the likes of Alabama’s Kool-Aid McKinstry and Florida State’s Jared Verse, among others. There’s one player they’ve hosted, however, that felt the Bucs made a big impression on him.
The team recently hosted Michigan cornerback Mike Sainristil on a Top 30 visit, one of multiple at the cornerback position along with McKinstry. He recently sat down for an interview with The Draft Network, and when asked about teams he has visited, he had a lot of great things to say about the Bucs and his visit to Tampa Bay.
“I recently completed a visit with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It went really well. They treated me like family. I loved everything about that visit,” Sainristil told The Draft Network. “It kinda felt like the first time I visited the Michigan campus, to be honest with you. I interpret that in a great way.”
This is intriguing for a number of reasons. While it could perhaps be simply that the Bucs are quite hospitable to their pre-draft visitors, the high praise from Sainristil could perhaps also be an indicator that the Buccaneers liked him, too. There is certainly a need for cornerback, but it’s moreso an outside need, and Sainristil has admitted that while he has talked with some teams about that, he’s projected at the nickel position.
“I’m definitely hearing more nickel than anything else, but I’ve had some boundary corner as well,” he said in the interview. “A lot of teams are very aware of the positional versatility I bring to the table.”
As it stands, the Bucs are likely to have a competition between Christian Izien and newly-acquired Tavierre Thomas for the nickel slot, but the addition of Sainristil could bring a depth option that could turn into a long-term investment going forward.
He had a stellar year at Michigan last year, netting six interceptions and two forced fumbles. Whether or not he’ll take that production to the Bucs depends on if they select him at any point from April 25-27 during the NFL Draft.
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TEXAS TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A 20-year-old Kalamazoo man is dead after crashing his vehicle into a tree Friday evening in Texas Township, according to Michigan State Police (MSP).
It happened on South 3rd Street and West PQ Avenue around 6:50 p.m., troopers said.
While he was driving in a no-passing zone, the Kalamazoo man swerved off the road to avoid an oncoming vehicle and subsequently crashed into the tree, according to MSP.
The 20-year-old died at the scene. A passenger was hurt, but police said their injuries were non-life threatening.
Troopers do not believe alcohol or drugs were a factor, and the two were reportedly wearing seatbelts.
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This incident remains under investigation by MSP.
A Southfield man has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and equipment to create fake documents, federal prosecutors said.
Jerome Antwan Andrews, 41, pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing the driver’s license information and Social Security numbers of more than 250 people in a scheme that caused more than $550,000 in fraud losses, U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon Jr. said.
As part of his plea agreement, prosecutors say Andrews admitted to having an embosser, a laminator, a card cutter and an ID card printer and admitted that his business model was aimed at creating and selling fake Social Security cards and driver’s licenses in the names of real people.
“Jerome Antwan Andrews and his criminal associates stole more than $1.5 million by submitting hundreds of fraudulent claims to a pandemic program intended to help unemployed American workers. Today’s conviction of Andrews represents yet another attack in our war against fraud. It sends a stern warning that my office will relentlessly investigate those bad actors greedily lining their pockets with U.S. taxpayer funds,” said Anthony P. D’Esposito, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General.
Andrews faces up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine or twice the pecuniary gain or loss, according to prosecutors. He will be sentenced at a later date.
Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Department of Labor investigated Andrews’ case.
Alcona county dam failure leaves a hole in a community
Buck’s Pond is now a muddy mess after floodwaters breached its dam
Barton City — This week’s flooding across northern Michigan is being blamed for the collapse of a privately owned dam in Alcona County, washing away the small lake that the structure held back.
Buck’s Pond was reduced to mud this week after its privately owned dam failed, destroying the gravel road over the 94-year-old dam structure.
The dam burst around 8 p.m. Monday, sending all of the water in Buck’s Pond north through Comstock Creek to Hubbard Lake, a large recreational boating lake in Alcona County that’s ringed by summer cottages and year-round homes, said James Plohg, who owns property on the lake.
“As it was rising, it started like just washing little parts of it away,” Plohg told The Detroit News on Thursday. “And then it just got so big that it wasn’t able to contain it. And it just opened up.”
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy classifies the Buck’s Pond Dam as a low-hazard dam because its rupture has little downstream impact on other water infrastructure and property.
Lakes in the Green Association, a local homeowners group, owned the dam, according to state records.
It was last inspected in August 2017, according to records in the Michigan Dam Inventory, the state’s catalog of data on the ownership, age and condition of 2,552 dams scattered across Michigan’s Lower and Upper peninsulas.
State records indicate the dam was in “satisfactory” condition, able to withstand a 100-year flood and that it “meets applicable tolerable risk criteria.”
Plohg said the demise of the Buck’s Pond Dam will leave a hole in his and his neighbors’ remote corner of rural Alcona County, located between Oscoda and Alpena.
Plohg said he’s been in contact with state lawmakers who represent Alcona County, hoping they could secure state funding to rebuild the dam — and restore Buck’s Pond.
“It was beautiful,” Plohg told The News. “I mean, people come here to fish. There’s the beach over there. Little kids came to swim, picnics, meetings, a lot of boats, pontoons go around the island. We had (boat) parades on the lake. It’s not much of nothing right now.”
“This doesn’t describe how nice it used to be,” Plohg added.
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