COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A Kinderhook Township man is scheduled to be sentenced December 9 in Branch County Circuit Court after he entered a guilty plea to domestic violence, second offense Monday.
46-year-old Richard Stolte of Kinderhook Township was charged following a confrontation with a female acquaintance in early February.
In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors will dismiss charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and domestic violence, third offense.
The charges stem from a second violent incident involving Stolte and the woman since December 2018.
Stolte was given a 93 day jail sentence for throwing a hammer at the woman’s vehicle last December and hitting her.
He told the Michigan State Police he was not trying to hit the woman when he threw the hammer. State Police said at the time the woman rammed her vehicle into Stolte’s vehicle during an argument.
