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The Michigan State Police is announcing that First Lieutenant Steven Harper will retire from the Michigan State Police retired  after 25 years and 11 months of service.  Most recently, Harper served as Post Commander of the Wayland Post and was responsible for MSP operations in Allegan and Barry Counties and supervised 50 enlisted and civilian personnel.

Harper, an Allen Park native, enlisted with the Department on February 22, 1987.  He graduated as a member of the 101st Recruit School.  Harper was first assigned as a trooper to the Erie Post and later transferred to the Northville Post.  He served as a detective trooper at SECID (Southeastern Criminal Investigation Division), then promoted to sergeant at Hastings and later transferred to Grand Haven Post.  He again promoted to first lieutenant and served as Post Commander at Lakeview, Rockford, Hastings an

WALKER, Mich. (WZZM)- Witnesses say a suspected drunk driver had to know he hit a moped in Walker and was dragging it down the road into Grandville.

They say the wreckage wedged under his vehicle was gouging the road and sending sparks into the air.

"He knew something was under his car," insists Grandville resident Josh Smith. "How could you not know it?" He wonders.

"There were pieces of moped all the way down the road," adds Grandville neighbor Pamela Solden.

Just after 1 a.m. Wednesday,  19-year-old Tony Bloomquist was driving his moped home to Grandville after finishing his shift at  Sonic in Alpine Township.  He was on Wilson Avenue in Walker, about halfway home, when police say he was hit from behind by a vehicle driven by 21-year-old Matthew Nawrocki of Grandville.

"I heard the crash," says Brenda Bleyenberg, who lives on Wilson Avenue.