Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Meth dealer sentenced in Ontonagon County

ONTONAGON — An Ontonagon man was sentenced to prison for drug dealing.

In Ontonagon Circuit Court, Judge Michael Pope sentenced Harvey Reaver, 37, to a minimum sentence of six years and maximum of 20 years in prison on drug charges in two separate cases.

In both files, Reaver was charged with delivery or manufacture of methamphetamine.

He was given credit for 169 days served in jail.

In the plea agreement, one charge of  delivery or manufacture of meth and one of possession of Adderal were dismissed.

Reaver was also ordered to pay $198 in court costs.

In an unrelated preliminary hearing, a former Negaunee man was bound over to circuit court to answer to rape charges.

Stephen Hocking, 43, is charged with first-degree sexual conduct with a teenager under the age of consent in 1999. Bond of $10,000, at 10 percent, was posted and he will be arraigned in circuit court on Aug. 16.

Eddy Majurin, 25, of Ontonagon, was sentenced to a year in the Ontonagon County Jail. Majurin pleaded guilty to one count of resisting and obstructing an officer, and one count of aggravated assault.

As part of a plea deal, a charge of felonious assault and a count of resisting and obstructing a police officer were dismissed.

Majurin was sentenced to 12 months in the county jail for the resisting and obstructing charge, with credit for 253 days served. On a second aggravated assault charge, he was given a sentence of six months in jail, with credit for 180 days served.

He was assessed $1,331 in fines and costs.

A 21-year-old Mass City man was sentenced in circuit court Tuesday.

Brandon Karianen was sentenced to one year in jail on a charge of failure to comply with sex offender duties. He was given credit for 36 days served and assessed fines and costs of $1,366.

—Jan Tucker