Brandon Township resident Shelly Klanke was sentenced before Judge Steven Andrews on Nov. 4 to 18 months probation for her part in an assault with a dangerous weapon on her husband. Terms of the sentence include regular alcohol and drug testing, and participation in a mental health program.
Klanke, 43, and township resident Michael Boadway, 47, were arrested last summer when Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies from the Brandon Substation responded to the 1000 block of Hummer Lake Road at 12:15 a.m.after a report of a home invasion. Boadway, faces similar charges. His trial begins Dec. 2 before Judge Andrews. Both faced a four-year felony.
According to reports, homeowner Gary Klanke, the husband of Shelly, 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 the 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’s and heard the commotion in the hallway. The son allegedly hit Boadway in the face with his fist, then took the baseball bat from him. The youth beat Boadway about the body, while Gary pinned him down until deputies arrived. Boadway was taken to Genesys Regional Medical Center in Grand Blanc where he was treated for his injuries.
Boadway later told deputies that he and Shelly Klanke 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, Shelly Klanke claims she was upstairs in the home during the incident.