ESCANABA (AP) -- A doctor from the Upper Peninsula has been sentenced to 250 hours of community service on a misdemeanor charge of attempting to maintain a drug house.

Erik M. Rubright pleaded no contest last month in Delta County District Court and was sentenced Thursday.  The judge gave him a year's probation and $1,095 in fines and costs.

A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated as such at sentencing.

Police say the 48-year-old doctor knew his wife was using and selling drugs in their Brampton Township home.

Defense lawyer Frank Stupak says the doctor "should have been a little more vigilant" of his drug-addicted wife's conduct, but wasn't convicted of selling or possessing drugs.

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