This would be bigamy, which is “the crime of being simultaneously twice married: the crime of marrying somebody while being legally married to somebody else.”

Martha Fleming tied the knot with a Detroit man in January.

Unfortunately, St. Clair Shores police said, her new husband didn’t know that Fleming was already married — for nearly 13 years — and he didn’t expect her to run off with a $9,000 inheritance check from his dead uncle.

"She splits with the money and leaves him high and dry," St. Clair Shores police Detective Margaret Eidt said Friday shortly before Fleming was arraigned on a polygamy charge, a four-year felony.

Fleming, 43, was ordered held in the Macomb County Jail on a $15,000 cash surety bond during arraignment in 40th District Court in St. Clair Shores. She is to wear a tether if she posts bond and is released from jail.

Eidt said Fleming married her second husband Jan. 30 at Christ Gospel Tabernacle Church, 30500 Harper, in St. Clair Shores. But she had been married to a man in Bay City since 1996.

Sometime shortly after her second marriage, she took the inheritance check from her second husband, cashed it in Harper Woods and took off, Eidt said.

The detective said a civil attorney representing the second husband discovered Fleming was already married. Eidt said Harper Woods police are investigating the theft of the inheritance check.

Eidt said she has been looking for Fleming since May, when an arrest warrant was authorized on the polygamy charge.

Fleming, who also goes by the last names of Smith, Nellett and Chatfield, was arrested about 3 a.m. Friday in Bay City, the detective said.

Source/Full Story: Freep.com

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