COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A Matteson Township man who was charged by prosecutors after a rock was thrown through a neighbor’s front door window last January entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court.
42-year-old Jonathan Vern Fleming entered a no contest plea to a charge of malicious destruction of property between $200 and $1,000.
In exchange for his plea, charges of felonious assault and malicious destruction of a building between $1,000 and $20,000 will be dismissed by prosecutors.
Sentencing is scheduled for August 23.
According to court documents, the rock that was thrown through the window barely missed hitting a man inside.
Fleming’s home on Lyter Road burned down two days later. The Bronson Fire Department said at the time the fire was not considered suspicious.
After he was charged, Fleming was ordered to undergo a forensic examination to determine if he was mentally competent to stand trial.
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