COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A Coldwater man was sent to the Michigan Department of Corrections on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court following an undercover drug investigation over two years ago.
61-year-old Paul Kevin Dirschell was ordered to serve between 29 months and 15 years in prison after he entered a no contest plea to a charge of creation and delivery on a controlled substance analogue.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dismissed a charge of delivery and manufacturing meth, three other 2021 cases involving four drug charges and a count of resisting police as well as a habitual offender sentencing enhancer. Dirschell’s criminal record goes back to 1979.
Dirschell was given credit for 368 days already served in jail. He was arrested in May of 2021 and charged in connection with an undercover drug investigation by the Southwest Enforcement Team that took place the previous January.
According to court documents, Dirschell was involved in a pair of methamphetamine transactions with S.W.E.T. detectives.
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