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Tamela Peterson has been accused of preventing the investigation from the death of a hyperbaric camera explosion that killed a boy on January 31.
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Peterson is believed to have wiped her laptop with evidence, lied to investigators to change video evidence and have grabbed her phone from a detective and ran at one point.
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The prosecutor’s office also claims that she has threatened witnesses and is a risk of flight.
Oucklend County, Michigan (Fox 2) – There were disturbing details about the CEO and the founder of the Oxford Center in Troy during her dispute on Tuesday about an explosion of a hyperbaric camera, with a 5-year-old boy.
Tamela Peterson has been charged with second -degree murder. She received a $ 2 million bond after being described as a risk of flight with reported incidents with investigation interference.
History
Oklland Chris County County Prosecutor’s assistant has offered a list of alarming accusations against 58 -year -old Peterson from Brighton, starting with the fear that witnesses have shared about her.
“A judge would note that there are witnesses in this case, who have indicated that this defendant has harassed, threatened, harassed, humiliating and brings cases against people who, due to a lack of better phrase, stand in the way of everything he wants to do.”
Peterson, 58, is one of the three suspects accused of death of 5-year-old Thomas Cooperwho died in the blast who severely injured his mother on January 31 in central Troy.
Kesel was concerned that Peterson was the risk of flight because she had a lot of money from her business – offering unconventional health treatments such as Cooper’s Dream Apnea Chamber that were not covered by insurance.
Peterson has a visa for China and has recently purchased an amount of uncirculated Iraqi currency, he said, adding that he had relationships with people outside the country and the country.
“She has shown time after a while that there is no problem trying to prevent her investigation,” Kessel said. “There is no better way to obstruct the investigation than not to be here.”
“(Its) history bothers me”
Among the allegations made about Peterson’s intervention in this case:
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Peterson is believed to have “wiped his laptop” to throw away potential evidence.
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Peterson is accused of supervising the hyperbaric camera to “return” the number of cycles for which it was used.
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Peterson is believed to have lied to investigators to prevent access to a video of the Chamber’s explosion in the case.
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Peterson is supposed to have run out of detectives when they asked her to hand over her phone.
Magistrate Elizabeth Chiapelli said she was worried about the allegations of neglecting safety protocols and questioned Peterson’s alleged lack of cooperation in the investigation.
“I heard that there is inappropriate use of stationary photos taken by (closed -circuit television) of this incident,” Chiapeli said. “Miss Peterson’s story bothers me as far as preventive investigations are concerned.”
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The other side
Defense Defender Gerard Glieson said Peterson voluntarily transferred his passport preventively and stated that if the troy police had contacted them a while ago, they would have appeared in court without requiring her arrest.
“All they had to do was call me and we will stay here voluntarily,” he said. “Instead, we are handcuffed in Box recorded by the media.”
Glieson said the reason for the Chinese visa is that Peterson’s son married a Chinese immigrant to China and dating back to August 2024, long before the last incidents.
He also denied her intervention in the investigation.
“With these (claims) about the threat of people and the deletion (evidence), we will see an obstruction of the prosecution of justice,” he said. “If that happened, we would have seen a call to prevent justice – and we don’t have it.”
The magistrate said that safety protocols could save Thomas Cooper’s life by adding that the grounding line (to reduce the static risk of electricity) was not used, as well as talk about changing the hyperbaric camera itself.
“There was a subordinate to the number of camera cycles, which was not changed – it was read less than in 2022 – today this child would be alive,” she said. “If this operation is performed this way, I am so relieved that this has not happened before.
“But I’m terrified of the family and I won’t call it tragically. I think it was predictable, the tragedy is not.”
Source
Information about this story comes from the accusing press conference by the Michigan General Prosecutor and the Court of Justice of the Oakland County.