Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Johnson pleads to drug charges

By RICHARD JENKINS

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BESSEMER — Testifying via video feed from the Iron County Jail, Michael Scott Johnson, 21, Ramsay, pled guilty to possession of methamphetamine and possession with intent to deliver heroin in Gogebic County Circuit Court in Bessemer Monday.

The plea was part of a deal that will result in six additional charges and a habitual offender-third offense designation dismissed by the Gogebic County Prosecutor’s Office.

Both felony charges Johnson pled guilty to carry a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and/or $25,000 in fines.

As part of th...