TRAVERSE CITY — A woman who repeatedly violated probation and bond conditions in Grand Traverse County faces more problems in Florida after local judges allowed her to move there.
Cynthia Stowe, ex-wife of Grand Traverse County Probate Judge David Stowe, was arrested in Cocoa Beach, Fla. on Sept. 6. Police there seek charges of felony child abuse and battery domestic violence, documents show, though Stowe has yet to be formally charged.
Stowe was on probation in Grand Traverse County for contempt of court and drunken driving, and Benzie Circuit Judge James M. Batzer and 86th District Judge Thomas J. Phillips, who are handling her charges, both allowed her to move to Florida in separate July hearings.
She was ordered to continue reporting by phone to probation officers here.
An arrest report from Florida indicates Stowe assaulted two victims, 17 and 18, after she drank alcohol. She was in an argument with one of the victims about her consumption of alcohol when she began the assault, police said.
Aside from her Florida troubles, both Phillips and Batzer recently signed warrants for her arrest because she failed to comply with probation terms here after she moved south.
Among other problems, Stowe failed to provide results of breath tests, forged an Alcoholics Anonymous form and failed to call in to report, 86th District Court Administrator Carol Stocking said.
Stowe assaulted her then-husband David Stowe in their Long Lake Township home in January. That case eventually was resolved in a plea deal that added one year of probation to her drunken driving arrest, though she violated bond and was charged with perjury after authorities said she lied in a bond violation hearing.
The perjury charge was dismissed when she pleaded guilty to contempt of court.
David Stowe was elected to the probate judge post in 2000, and Cynthia Stowe — known as Cynthia Curry prior to her marriage to Stowe — is a former family court employee who worked under Stowe from 2002 to 2005.
The two began a personal relationship while they both worked in the court, and David oversaw child custody matters in Cynthia’s divorce case. David Stowe subsequently fired the county’s family court administrator for reporting the relationship to county officials. The county later paid a $69,000 settlement to that ex-employee.
Stowe and Curry married in early 2009, and divorced this year. Stowe isn’t running again for that post and will step down at the end of the year.
Cindy Stowe’s attorney, Michael Bross, didn’t return a call for comment.
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