Is it just me or does it seem to anyone else that Macomb County has become a continual source of Metro Detroit scandal news? Now we have a former prosecutor and his assistant being bound over for trial for allegedly dipping their fingers in to drug forfeiture funds--those honeypots that seem to lead astray so many in law enforcement.

Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith and one of his top assistants ended Friday with both being bound over to circuit court on all charges.

The cases against Smith and assistant prosecutor Derek Miller, Smith's former chief of operations who once served as county treasurer, are headed to Macomb County Circuit Court after about a dozen witnesses testified in the exam, which began in July.

Smith, 55, who served more than 15 years as prosecutor, is accused of embezzling $600,000 from drug and forfeiture funds for personal and unauthorized business expenses since 2012.

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