Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RICHARD JENKINS
HOUGHTON — Gogebic County Circuit Judge Michael Pope can continue to preside over the case of an inmate accused of escaping from the Gogebic County Jail, after 12th Circuit County Judge Charles Gibson affirmed Pope’s denial of a defense motion that he recuse himself.
Daniel G. Ferguson, 27, of Mercer, is facing three breaking and entering charges and one count of escaping jail while awaiting trial on a felony after authorities say he escaped from the Gogebic County Jail the evening of June 19, 2017.
Ferguson pleaded guilty to the escape ch...
