COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Branch County Prosecutors have filed more charges against one of the suspects who authorities say were involved in a series of crimes during the first week of January.
35-year-old Jason Work was arraigned in Branch County District Court on Thursday on charges of assault with intent to rob while armed and larceny in a building in connection with an alleged January 3 incident with a home owner on Rose Street in Coldwater.
The same charges were filed against 20-year-old co-defendant Lilyan Blankenship.
Bond in both cases has been set at $200,000. Work is scheduled to appear for a probable cause hearing on February 24 with a preliminary exam scheduled for March 3.
The alleged victim stated in court documents that Blankenship and Work tried to rob him in his home on January 3 and that Work was armed with a knife.
A physical confrontation took place involving the three. As the two suspects left, a television and wireless printer were taken from the home.
Work and Blankenship were arrested by Coldwater Police five days later.
Work was earlier charged with two counts of driving away a motor vehicle, third degree fleeing from a police office and assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer. Those cases have been bound over to Branch County Circuit Court.
Blankenship is facing two counts of driving away of a motor vehicle, possession of methamphetamine, second degree retail fraud and assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer. Those cases were bound over to Circuit Court on Wednesday morning.
According to Branch County court documents, Work and Blankenship are accused of stealing vehicles on January 3 and 7 from people they knew.
Blankenship is also accused of taking $556 worth of items from a liquor store on the west side of Coldwater.
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