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A search for Ricky Holland coordinated by bounty hunter
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Author:  cyberhunter [ Wed 14 Sep 2005 13:37 ]
Post subject:  A search for Ricky Holland coordinated by bounty hunter
Published September 14, 2005

New search

• A search for Ricky Holland coordinated by bounty hunter Mike Wellman will launch Monday. He said teams will look 24 hours a day for one week.

• For more information, go to cbhmi.tripod.com.

• Anyone with information on Ricky's disappearance is asked to call 676-8211.
Bounty hunter to look for Ricky
Local man says teams to search for boy for 1 week

By Kevin Grasha
Lansing State Journal


DeWITT - A local bounty hunter announced Tuesday that he was organizing a new ground search for a missing William-ston boy.

His main motivation: God's will.

"The Lord has placed it on our hearts, and we're answering that call," said Mike Wellman of Cherokee Bounty as he sat behind a table draped with a flag featuring Michigan's state seal, and flanked by a Bible on one side and a pair of handcuffs on the other.

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Reading from a handwritten news release, Wellman asked for volunteers to help in a new ground search for 8-year-old Ricky Holland, who was last seen July 1 when he went to bed at around 9:30 p.m.

The Ingham County Sheriff's Office called off its ground search on July 10.

The case has since shifted from a missing person investigation to a criminal probe.

Ingham County sheriff's Lt. Jeff Joy, who watched the afternoon news conference, said police would not get in Wellman's way.

"We're not condoning the effort," he said, "but we're not prohibiting it."

Joy would not comment about last week's search of the Holland home, when police served Ricky's parents with search warrants and confiscated two vehicles and a computer.

The hunt for Ricky, which Wellman said is his company's first missing-person search, is scheduled to begin Monday and last a week. He said he is not working with any police agency and any information collected would be turned over to the Ingham County deputies.

He said he decided to organize the search about a month ago, but it had taken this long to coordinate it.

"It's never too late," he said. "We're going to start in Williamston and literally go to every county if we have to." Wellman added that free Bibles will be passed out to all volunteers.

Neil Rockind, the attorney for Tim and Lisa Holland, Ricky's parents, said he supports the new search.

"We welcome the help from anybody who's willing to help," Rockind said.

Matt Caswell, 27, who said he's the fiance of Ricky's biological mother, plans to participate.

"I will put my heart and soul into it," he said.

Still, he can't help but think something bad happened to Ricky.

"My mind says one thing ... but my heart says, no, it's going to come out all right."

Contact Kevin Grasha at 267-1347 or kgrasha@lsj.com.
Author:  cyberhunter [ Fri 16 Sep 2005 12:19 ]
Post subject:  wish i saw this Be cautious when dealing with bounty hunter
Published September 15, 2005
[ From the Lansing State Journal ]

Be cautious when dealing with bounty hunter in missing boy case, prosecutor says
By Kevin Grasha
Lansing State Journal


Ionia County Prosecutor Ron Schafer said today the public should be cautious when dealing with a man calling himself a bounty hunter with intentions to launch a new search for Ricky Holland.

"I have suspicions he's not everything he claims to be," Schafer said about Michael Wellman, whom he knows as Michael Wellman-Robbins.

"He's a convicted felon who recently absconded for two years from probation. I think that speaks volumes about what this individual is about."

Wellman was released from Ionia County Jail on Sept. 8 after serving about 70 days for a probation violation, Schafer said.

In 2002, Wellman was arrested for writing a bad check. In 2003, he was sentenced to probation, but then violated the terms of his probation by disappearing.

"I broke the law once and I paid for it," Wellman said Wednesday evening. "Why can't a bounty hunter turn his life around and make something good out of himself?"

Contact Kevin Grasha at 267-1347 or kgrasha@lsj.com
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