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Rep. Neil Friske
Update: 7:17 p.m. Monday -- State Rep. Neil Friske who was arrested last week in Lansing, but has yet to be charged, said on radio that he was framed. He did not explain.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
"Just the way events unfolded, it was very clear to me that something wasn't right and I was being framed, and trying to be framed, and being set up," Friske said on the "Your Defending Fathers" conservative radio program, hosted by Randy "Trucker Randy" Bishop, who is a former county GOP official in Antrim County.
After his arrest Thursday in Lansing, police have requested three felony charges including sexual assault, assault, and a weapons-related offense, the Detroit Free Press reports.
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From Friday
Republican Michigan State Rep. Neil Friske of Charlevoix appears to be big trouble, enough so that he needs a lawyer.
After his arrest Thursday in Lansing, police have requested three felony charges including sexual assault, assault, and a weapons-related offense, the Detroit Free Press reports. As of early Friday morning, he was locked up and had yet to be arraigned.
Friske was arrested around 2:45 a.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Windbreak Lane in Lansing, the Freep reports, citing police spokeswoman Jordan Gulkis.
Gulkis tells the publication that officers were dispatched initially to the nearby 2100 block of Forest Road to respond to reports of a male with a gun, "as well as possible shots that were fired."
Friske's Facebook page said the arrest "highly suspect" and that "Friske is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right."
His official website says:
Rep. Neil Friske was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2022. He represents the 107th House District. Located in Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, the district includes all of Charlevoix and Emmet counties and portions of Cheboygan, Chippewa, and Mackinac counties.
