Courtesy Photo Michael Mack appears in this mugshot provided by the Alpena County Jail.

ALPENA ― Police arrested former Alpena judge Michael Mack on Friday on drunk driving-related charges connected to two separate incidents in spring of this year.

Judge Lynne Buday, of Kalkaska, this week sentenced Mack to 30 days in jail for failing multiple times to appear for court hearings related to arrests on April 6 and May 2.

Tests administered at the time of the arrests indicated Mack drove with a blood alcohol content more than three times the legal limit.

The judge also canceled Mack’s personal recognizance bond and set a new bond at $5,000 because of multiple violations of conditions of his bond.

Under the $5,000 bond, Mack could be released by paying 10%, or $500.

Bond violations included not taking regular breath tests, failing to put a breath-testing device on his vehicle or to wear an alcohol-monitoring device, and registering the presence of alcohol in a breath test in November, according to Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski.

Mack’s attorney could not be reached for comment.

In November 2019, the Michigan Supreme Court replaced Mack as chief judge of the 26th Circuit Court, the 88th District Court, and the Alpena and Montmorency County Probate Courts.

Mack’s successor, Judge Benjamin Bolser, immediately removed Mack from the court docket, and Mack then retired.

The Michigan State Police and Michigan Attorney General’s office have said they are investigating Mack but would not disclose the nature of the investigation.

On April 6, police responded to an Alpena Township gas station, where Mack had fallen inside the store after driving to the station with a blood alcohol content of 0.245, or three times the legal limit for driving, according to police reports.

A Michigan State Police-Alpena Post trooper arrested Mack at the hospital, where he had been transported by medical responders, but did not take him to jail or issue an appearance ticket to order Mack to appear in court. Police seized and destroyed Mack’s driver’s license.

Local officers commonly issue appearance tickets instead of booking people into jail at the time of drunk driving arrests, police say.

Police arrested Mack again a month later when, on May 2, officers responded to a single-vehicle crash on Genschaw Road in Alpena Township and found Mack behind the wheel, uninjured. A breath test at the scene registered a blood alcohol content of 0.26, according to police reports.

The officer at the scene also noticed a glass of scotch on the passenger-side floor mat.

Mack was arrested on charges of drunk driving and operating without a license but not lodged in jail. He was ordered to appear in court several weeks later, police reports indicated.

Buday has presided over Mack’s drunk driving cases since the incidents occurred. He is next scheduled to appear in court for a jury trial in 2022.