ALPENA — A man on Monday admitted he attacked a woman in her kitchen while under the influence of antipsychotic medications in 2021.

At a hearing in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court, Mitchell McBride, appearing via videoconference from the Alpena County Jail, pleaded no contest to the attack, which his attorney said he does not remember because of the mental illness-related medications he was taking at the time.

A no-contest plea is treated the same as a guilty plea for the purposes of sentencing.

According to a police report read on the record by Judge Ed Black, police believe McBride stabbed the woman with a paring knife while she was washing dishes.

McBride, 33, knew the woman, who drove him to seek treatment at the Northeast Michigan Community Mental Health Authority after the attack, according to the police report.

Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski offered McBride a reduced charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, in place of the original charge of assault with intent to murder, in exchange for his no-contest plea.

McBride also pleaded guilty to kicking and spitting at a member of the jail staff.

McBride is scheduled to be sentenced in December.

Also in court on Monday:

∫ Kevin Baughan, awaiting a Michigan Court of Appeals decision related to his attempted murder and arson charges, said no to a plea offer that would have netted him a sentence of no more than 34 months in jail.

Baughan, 33, has already been in the Alpena County Jail for nearly two years, facing accusations he poured gasoline in a house and on a woman and threatened to light it when children were sleeping on another floor.

Muszynski offered to reduce Baughan’s charges to attempted arson, preparation to burn a dwelling, and child abuse, which would come with an agreement to cap Baughan’s sentence at 34 months.

Baughan refused the offer, electing instead to await the decision of the Court of Appeals. That court has not yet announced whether it will hear Baughan’s argument Black mismanaged the conclusion of a trial that ended with a hung jury in July.

Baughan’s attorney, Julie Miller, of the Northeast Michigan Regional Defender Office, argued the appeals court should dismiss charges against Baughan because, according to the attorney, Black let the jury give up on their deliberations prematurely.

Baughan will remain in jail on a $125,000 bond, pending the appeals court’s decision.

∫ Christopher Kendregan, 55, pleaded guilty to operating or maintaining a laboratory involving methamphetamine. In June, police caught him with pseudoephedrine — an ingredient used in making meth — and a funnel and bottle, which police called crude equipment for the manufacture of meth.

Kendregan also pleaded guilty to stealing money from a store.

He will be sentenced in December.