Plea bargain resolves Edmond case regarding handgun threat

A man Adrian police named as a suspect in a shooting at a city park last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced assault charge involving a separate incident.

The plea agreement with Jacob Christopher Edmond, 28, calls for no additional jail time when he is sentenced Aug. 27 in Lenawee County District Court for aggravated assault. He also is expected to be sentenced that day for a reduced disorderly charge to which he pleaded guilty on Monday in an unrelated resisting police and drug possession case.

Edmond remains free on bond.

Edmond was accused of threatening three people with a handgun during a confrontation on Erie Street on May 7, 2014.

It was one of several incidents among a group of people in the area that culminated in a May 8 shooting at Bob and Harriet Parish Park on Erie Street while it was crowded with children and families. A man was wounded in the arm.

Edmond was never charged in the shooting.

After his arrest on charges from the May 7 assault, Edmond was detained in jail in lieu of a $750,000 bond. Additional felonious assault and felony firearm possession charges were filed after a preliminary examination on July 24, 2014.

Edmond was released on a reduced bond in December while awaiting trial in the assault case. He was arrested again in January by Adrian police who reported found him illegally in possession of prescription drugs.

A plea agreement in both cases was rejected by Edmond earlier this month. He was to be re-arraigned Wednesday in circuit court on felony charges when the case was remanded to district court and a plea was taken by Judge Laura J. Schaedler.