Two Former Upper Peninsula Priests Charged with with Sex Crimes

By John Tunison
MLive. com
January 17, 2020

https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/01/two-former-upper-peninsula-priests-charged-with-with-sex-crimes.html

MICHIGAN -- Two former priests who served in the Upper Peninsula have been charged with sex crimes, the state Attorney General’s office announced Friday.

Both men had ties to the Catholic Diocese of Marquette.

The charges come as state Attorney General Dana Nessel continues investigations into clergy abuse.

Nessel said that she authorized charges against Gary Allen Jacobs, 74, of Albuquerque, New Mexico for multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct. The charges involved allege assaults between 1981 and 1984 in Ontonagon County and in early 1984 in Dickinson County.

State attorneys did not reveal information about the victims, other than to note that several charges involved a child between 13 and 16 and one charge involved a child less than 13.

Jacobs was arrested Friday in New Mexico and is awaiting extradition on eight felony charges.

The other former priest is Roy Joseph, 52, lives in India, state officials said.

The Attorney General’s office has authorized one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a 2006 incident in Marquette County. Joseph served as a priest there at the time.