HOLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Grand Rapids Police Department’s forensics unit spent several hours at a home on Holland’s West 20th Street Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. According to muliple reports, they are looking for clues related to a case involving Jared James Chance.
Chance, 29, was arrested Monday and arraigned in Kent County’s 61st District Court on Tuesday on charges of open murder, violating a dead body, concealing a dead body, and fourth/habitual offender charges.
The open-murder charge was dismissed; he remains in Kent County’s jail on a $750,000 bond for violating a dead body.
Grand Rapids police on Sunday discovered the partial remains of an as-yet unidentified woman in the Grand Rapids home where Chance had been living.
Wednesday afternoon, the GRPD forensics van, accompanied by at least two Holland Department of Public Safety vehicles, parked in the 100 block of 20th Street in Holland.
The occupants of the home, believed to be members of Chance’s family were cooperating with police. A small light-colored SUV was taken out of the garage and towed away in the the early evening.
Police on the scene did not talk to reporters on the record, one saying no one was authorized to speak to media.
Two neighbors, who stopped by separately to ask reporters what was happening, said the area is a typical quiet neighborhood and neither knew or had ever heard of Chance. One man — who declined to give his name but said he lived across the street and a few doors down from the home being searched — said he was sorry to say he didn’t know most of his neighbors.
The bitter cold kept curious pedestrians away, but vehicle traffic seemed to increase. Police closed the block briefly while getting the SUV acrosse the icy pavement and onto the tow-truck’s carrier bed.
