Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RICHARD JENKINS
rjenkins@yourdailyglobe.com
BESSEMER — An Erwin Township man pleaded to two sex crimes in Gogebic County Circuit Court Friday.
Thomas Perez, 60, entered no-contest pleas to two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person between the ages of 13 and 16 as part of a plea agreement that will have three other counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct dismissed at sentencing.
Each of the two counts Perez pleaded to carries a potential life sentence and mandatory lifetime electronic monitoring if released.
The plea agreement also calls for a sentencing recomme...