JACKSON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A Coldwater man already serving a decade in prison related to a Kalamazoo County sexual assault received a second sentence of more than three decades in prison in Jackson County.
Both the Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Jackson County Prosecutor Jerry Jarzynka made the announced on Thursday, October 28.
Last month, a jury found Brad Allen Risner, 29, guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after 10 minutes deliberation.
Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Edward Grant sentenced Risner to between 35 and 70 years in prison Thursday morning, October 28, to be served concurrently to his Kalamazoo County sentence. The charge stemmed from a February 2010 assault and was brought as part of the state’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.
Risner was first charged by the Kalamazoo County SAKI team and was sentenced last month in that case.
During the course of the Kalamazoo County investigation, ten other women were identified as being sexually and/or physically assaulted by Risner between 2005 and 2018, which led to the case in Jackson County along with a third case in Calhoun County, where he’s charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for assaults committed in 2006.
