Adkins pleads no contest

Posted: 01.05.2013 at 11:48 AM Updated: 01.05.2013 at 1:30 PM

Read more: Local, Crime, Joshua Adkins, Entered, No Contest Plea, November, Accosting, Minor, Immoral Purposes

HOUGHTON -- An Oklahoma man was sentenced Friday in Houghton County Circuit Court.

Joshua Adkins entered a no contest plea in November for accosting a minor for immoral purposes. Adkins' attorney requested Adkins be allowed to return to Oklahoma after his incarceration.

Adkins was sentenced to five years of probation which includes a no contact policy with anyone under the age of 17 and registering as a sex offender in the State of Michigan.

He was also sentenced to nine months in jail, with credit for 296 days.

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