Third drug defendant remanded to district court

BESSEMER — An Ashland man was remanded to district court Tuesday, the third co-defendant to be remanded in a Gogebic County drug case.

Corey Allan Tutor, 34, was facing one 10-year felony count of possession of methamphetamine and a misdemeanor charge of disorderly person-loitering about an illegal business, however Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs said the testing of evidence in the case didn’t bear out the initial charges.

Jacobs said he plans to file amended charges against Tutor, replacing the meth charge with one count of use of cocaine — a misdemeanor with a potential maximum senten...