COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – One of five suspects who are facing various drug related charges following a Coldwater Police investigation into alleged heroin and methamphetamine activity at a residence at 24 South Polk Street entered into a plea bargain with prosecutors in Branch County Circuit Court Monday.
30-year-old Jonathan William Elkins of Coldwater entered a guilty plea to a charge of possession of less than 25 grams of heroin.
Charges of maintaining a drug house, delivering or manufacturing methamphetamine and delivering less than 50 grams of a controlled substance along with an habitual offender sentencing enhancement would be dismissed by prosecutors in exchange for the guilty plea.
Elkins is scheduled to be sentenced on January 9, 2017. He admitted to being in possession of heroin when police executed a search warrant at the residence on October 6, 2016.
Coldwater Police were assisted by the Michigan State Police and the Branch County Sheriff’s Department during their investigation.
