Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Madden gives heroin defendant last chance to stay out of prison

By RALPH ANSAMI

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HURLEY — Iron County Judge Patrick Madden on Tuesday gave a Superior man who previously pleaded no contest to a heroin count one last chance to stay out of prison.

Bernie Sanders, 47, had received a deferred sentence in 2015 on a charge of possession with intent to deliver heroin.

On Tuesday, acting Iron County District Attorney Fritz Schellgell recommended Sanders be sentenced to 18 months in prison and 18 months of extended supervision for violating conditions set in the deferred prosecution agreement.

Sanders appeared in Iron County Court by teleph...