Trending
ALPENA -- A man who admitted to repeating the crime of sexually assaulting a minor could be sentenced to the lowest end of sentencing guidelines, according to a plea agreement reached in Alpena's 26th Circuit Court last week.
On Oct. 17, Dustin Bredow, 20, admitted to a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl in Alpena earlier this year.
At the time of the assault, Bredow was on parole from a prison sentence for sexual contact with another minor in Alpena County in 2018, when he was 16.
Bredow pleaded guilty last week to third-degree criminal sexual conduct related to the more recent incident.
As part of the plea agreement, Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski agreed to ask for a sentence of seven years, which falls at the low end of the guidelines provided for the charge to which Bredow pleaded guilty.
Bredow is scheduled for sentencing in December.
Muszynski agreed to dismiss a second-offender notice -- which would provide for a mandatory minimum sentence of at least five years -- and a charge of accosting a child for immoral purposes as part of the plea deal.
Bredow was moved to the adult court system for the 2018 offense, committed when he was 16, largely because the juvenile system couldn't afford to put him in residential treatment, attorneys for both sides said at the time. At that hearing, attorneys acknowledged sympathy related to trauma in Bredow's childhood.
Also in the 26th Circuit Court last week:
∫ Gage Thompson, 37, admitted he sold $120-worth of methamphetamine to a woman in May, an admission that may land him a sentence of no more than five years in prison.
Thompson also admitted to possessing meth when police sought medical treatment for him after they found him passed out on a sidewalk in Alpena in late May.
Thompson is scheduled for sentencing in December. According to the plea agreement, Muszynski will request a sentence of no more than five years' incarceration.
Muszynski agreed to dismiss repeat-offender notices that would have guaranteed Thompson a sentence of at least five years.
∫ Judge Ed Black said he would offer one more chance to a woman he said "thumbed her nose" at previous opportunities to break her drug habit and avoid prison on drug charges.
In early October, Black sentenced Felecia Bradford, 30, to five months in jail for possession of a controlled substance in 2021.
Before she could serve that time, Bradford violated her probation by trying to fake a positive drug test through the use of urine she smuggled into the jail in a body cavity, Black said.
Bradford also mistreated the probation officers assigned to test her, Black said.
Though he had already sent Bradford to inpatient drug treatment, which she did not successfully complete, Black said he would go against the recommendation of probation officers "and my own better judgment" and resentence Bradford to nine months in jail and drug court, instead of to prison.
He urged Bradford to take advantage of the opportunity and to comply with future drug tests.
"It's not just testing positive" that upsets court officials, Black told Bradford. "It's being a liar."
Julie Riddle can be reached at 989-358-5693, jriddle@thealpenanews.com or on Twitter @jriddleX.