COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A man who tried to escape from police custody in the area of the Branch County Courthouse on January 21 will be serving time in the Michigan Department of Corrections.
20-year-old Jacob Beatty was given concurrent sentences of 16 to 24 months on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court after he entered guilty pleas to assaulting, resisting or obstructing a police officer and for failure to register as a sex offender.
Beatty got 104 days credit for time served on the resisting count and eight days for the failure to register charges.
He was originally ordered to serve five years of probation last September after entering a no contest plea to a charge of attempted first degree criminal sexual conduct. Beatty was given a nine month jail sentence with credit for 272 days already served on that charge.
But Beatty was booked at the Branch County Jail in January for violating his probation.
Authorities say he was in chains when he tried to make a run for it. He was apprehended near Pearl and Division by the Branch County Sheriff’s Department and Coldwater Police.
Among those assisting in the apprehension was Coldwater Director of Public Safety Joe Schied, who ran from the Public Safety Building a half block away when a call for assistance was made.
