Traverse City Record-Eagle

May 18, 2008

Kalkaska teens face weapons charges


TRAVERSE CITY Two Kalkaska teens who allegedly possessed knives in their car face criminal charges.

Andrew Hill Paschke, 18, is charged with carrying a concealed weapon. Melanie Michelle Robinson, 19, is charged with carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent. Neither had been arrested Friday morning.

A Grand Traverse sheriff's deputy arrested Paschke on an outstanding warrant in October and allegedly discovered a double-edged knife during a search of a vehicle occupied by Paschke and Robinson. Paschke allegedly told the deputy the knife was his.

The deputy also allegedly found a butterfly knife with a blade of 3.5 inches, court records show. Robinson allegedly said she carried that knife for protection.