Shane Michael Crowell, 18, of Gurley, Alabama was sentenced to prison for 18 to 48 months with credit for 87 days served on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon by Judge Roy C. Hayes of the 33rd Circuit Court in Charlevoix County.

Crowell had pleaded guilty on December 6, admitting that he had struck a fellow inmate at the Charlevoix County Jail with a drinking mug. According to the affidavit of probable cause in the case, the assault was the result of a card game in the jail.

This incident resulted in Crowell’s fourth conviction in seven months. Assault with a dangerous weapon is a felony carrying a maximum penalty of four years in prison.

Crowell was convicted of receiving and concealing a stolen motor vehicle and receiving and concealing a firearm on May 17, 2019 in Charlevoix County. The court file in that matter indicates that Crowell and his brother had stolen vehicles in Alabama and Indiana to get to Michigan. They had also stolen two handguns from vehicles and brought those to Michigan as well.

Police found and arrested Crowell at a residence in Bay Township on March 28, 2019. Crowell was sentenced to ten months in jail on those charges on June 28, 2019.

On May 15, 2019, while those charges were pending, Crowell assaulted a fellow inmate at the Charlevoix County Jail, punching them and placing them in a headlock. According to court documents, this fight was as a result of the victim telling Crowell to pick up a banana peel in his cell.

Crowell pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on June 18 and was sentenced to serve 12 months in jail, concurrent with his pending sentence, on July 2.

Additional charges against the defendant are pending in the State of Alabama.