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A Huntsville man was sentenced to two years in prison for sexually assaulting a boy at least two times from the ages of 10 to 15.
Brandon Wilson, 43, of 6675 Willoby St., Lot 5, appeared Monday in Logan County Common Pleas Court for sentencing on two counts of gross sexual imposition.
The charges were reduced from two first-degree felony rape charges to avoid making the victim testify at trial.
The incidents the defendant admitted in court occurred in 2009 and 2014 when the boy was age 10 and 15, according to information presented at the plea hearing in March.
There were allegations that Mr. Wilson gave the victim and other juveniles alcohol prior to the second incident and that he threatened to harm the boy if he reported the incidents. Mr. Wilson continued to deny those allegations Monday in court.
“I never harmed him or threatened him to make him do things with me,” the offender told Judge Mark S. O’Connor prior to the pronouncement of the two-year prison sentence, He could qualify for early release after six months, but prosecutors said they would agree not to oppose release after serving a full year.
He will also be labeled a Tier II sex offender and must register with authorities for 25 years.
Drug-related cases resolved
April Hecht, 31, of Bellefontaine, pleaded guilty to possession of heroin in connection with a Sept. 24 arrest in which she and Adam Vestal of Sidney were stopped by officers of the Bellefontaine Police Department for driving under suspension. Ms. Hecht allegedly tried to lie about her identity but later admitted three capsules of heroin found in the vehicle were hers.
She will be sentenced May 23.
• Estell Crabtree, 27, of DeGraff, was sentenced to three years of community control, a $250 fine and ordered to successfully complete the Union County drug court program he has previously been sentenced to for another crime.
He was being sentenced here for a fourth-degree felony count of trespassing in a habitation for a Sept. 28 incident in which he and codefendant Chyna Stevenson, 25, of Marysville, forced entry into the city apartment home of his sister Ellen DeMatteo.
• Devin Rowe, 20, of Kenton, pleaded guilty to trespassing in a habitation, a fourth-degree felony, and was placed on the court’s intervention in lieu of conviction for trying to force entry into the Ridgeway home of his mother Cynthia Stevens on Nov. 7. Ms. Stevens reportedly had told her son not to come into the home after the family suspected him of stealing items to feed a drug addiction.
He has enrolled in Hardin County’s drug treatment program and must complete that as part of his three years of community control, Judge O’Connor said.