BY ALEX PIAZZA
TRAVERSE CITY — Authorities found a woman dead in a Garfield Township apartment and a man is in custody.
The woman's name was not immediately available, but Grand Traverse County sheriff's deputies obtained search warrants early today, including for an apartment on Glen Drive, off LaFranier Road.
The warrants allowed investigators to seize items including "bedding from bedroom area where dead woman found, any alcohol or drugs including alcohol or drug containers, whether empty or not, any knives or other weapons ... ."
A district court judge today also approved a search warrant to allow deputies to seize DNA and other possible evidence from Michael David Marvin, 47, of Traverse City, court documents show.
The warrants permitted investigators to obtain "clothing including shoes, hair specimens, swabs under finger nails for blood or human tissue, swabs of Marvin's skin for blood, photographs of Marvin, a swab/scraping of the inside cheek area of Marvin for purposes of obtaining a DNA sample of human tissue for later testing."
Deputies also received permission to obtain results of blood and urine tests administered to Marvin today at Munson Medical Center, where Marvin was admitted as a patient at 8 a.m. today for a "reported suicide attempt with knife wounds to Marvin's neck area."
Grand Traverse Sheriff Tom Bensley was not immediately available for comment, but sheriff's officials expected to release information about the case this afternoon.
