A Brandon Township man and woman are suspected of assault with a baseball bat after a May 3 incident in the woman’s township home.
Michael Boadway, 47, was arrested on July 28 and arraigned the next day in 52-2 District Court on charges of aggravated assault. He was released on $5,000 bond.
Jean Klanke, 43, was arrested Aug. 4 and arraigned Aug. 5, also on charges of aggravated assault. If convicted, the pair could face a four-year felony.
According to Oakland County Sheriff’s reports, deputies from the Brandon Substation responded to the 1000 block of Hummer Lake Road at 12:15 a.m., May 3 after a report of a home invasion.
According to reports, the homeowner, Gary Klanke was in his downstairs bedroom at about 11:30 a.m. when he was awakened by the sound of his truck alarm. When Gary went out the door at the back of his home to shut off his truck alarm, he saw a man and woman in the backyard. The woman, dressed in a white shirt and pants, left the scene while the man crawled under Klanke’s deck area, according to the report. Gary allegedly ran back inside the house to call 9-1-1 and said he locked the door behind him. As Gary returned to his bedroom to call deputies, the suspect, Boadway, allegedly followed him into the home and proceeded to beat him with a baseball bat.
Klanke’s 16-year-old son was sleeping in the bedroom next to his father and heard the commotion in the hallway. The youth allegedly hit Boadway in the face with his fist, then took the baseball bat from him. The youth beat Boadway about the body, pinning him down until deputies arrived.
‘Everytime Boadway moved, the son hit him,? said Det. Arnie Terrell, Oakland County Sheriff deputy, Brandon Substation. ‘The boy is the real hero here, he saved his dad’s life.?
Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home and found the youth standing over the suspect. Boadway was taken to Genesys Medical Center in Grand Blanc where he was treated for his injuries.
Boadway later told deputies that he and Jean Klanke, Gary’s wife, had conspired to ‘rough up the husband a little,? according to sheriff’s deputies? reports. Gary Klanke claims he saw his wife out by his pickup truck at the time the alarm was going off and suspects his wife allowed Boadway into the house by unlocking the door.
In the report, Jean Klanke claims she was upstairs in the home during the incident and had only met Boadway at a local business.
Terrell said sheriff deputies had responded to the couple’s home for domestic issues in the past year.