COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – One of the two suspects who Branch County authorities say were involved in a series of crimes during the first week of January of 2022 was ordered to serve up to 20 years in prison on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court after she entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.
21-year-old Lilyan Blankenship entered guilty pleas to charges of first degree home invasion, second degree retail fraud and assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer.
She was ordered to serve between four to 20 years on the home invasion charge and was given a concurrent sentence of 16 to 24 months on the other two charges.
Blankenship was given credit for 296 days already served in Jail.
Charges of larceny and assault with intent to rob while armed are being dropped in exchange for her pleas.
35-year-old Jason Work was given a prison sentence of 10 to 20 years last Monday after he entered no contest pleas to third degree fleeing and eluding and to first degree home invasion.
The rest of the charges against Work were dismissed in exchange for the pleas.
This is ridiculous. Where are the millions of dollars a year that the Federal Government gives the drug riddled state of Michigan to help get these addicts into treatment? PRISON DOES NOT REFORM CONVICTS. ITS AN EDUCATION SYSTEM TO SCHOOL CRIMINALS INTO BECOMING EVEN WORSE CRIMINALS. And these Buck Rogers sentences? You’d get an I Bond in any other less corrupt state. Pathetic the REAL CRIMINALS are the ones sitting behind legislative and juridical titles and desks. I can’t WAIT TILL THESE EGOCENTRIC, POWER HUNGRY, CORRUPT and the worst, WORLDLY puppets get what they deserve, passing judgement here , and having to answering to the ULTIMATE Judge when the days said and done.