Overview
- The Sheriff's Enforcement Team, which includes Macomb County and Warren detectives, executed a Nov. 13 search at a Grand Avenue home in Mt. Clemens and found a fully functioning homemade drug lab.
- Investigators seized about 225 grams of etizolam, more than 1,000 suspected pressed methamphetamine‑fentanyl pills, a pill press with stamps, roughly 1,300 grams of psilocybin, ketamine, anabolic steroids, two pistols, an autoclave, glassware, packaging and a vehicle.
- The residence is near an elementary school, a factor the sheriff highlighted in warning about risks to children.
- Dennis Frank Baran Jr., 52, faces 10 drug and weapons counts including operating or maintaining a laboratory near specified places, was arraigned with bond set at $500,000, and is charged as a fourth‑habitual offender.
- Natalie Fraley, 41, is charged with two controlled‑substance offenses; both were booked into the Macomb County Jail after arraignment, investigators allege Baran used a false identity to buy chemicals overseas, and a probable cause conference is set for Nov. 24.