REED CITY — A Cadillac man arrested for numerous break-ins throughout Osceola County has been sentenced to prison.
On Friday, Nicholas John Bailey, 23, appeared in Osceola County's 49th Circuit Court for sentencing. In March, Bailey pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement with the Osceola County Prosecutor's Office to one count of criminal enterprises and one count of receiving and concealing a stolen firearm.
Bailey was sentenced to between six and 20 years for the criminal enterprises charge and 14 months to 10 years for the firearms charge. Those sentences will run concurrently. He is given credit for 239 days already served.
Bailey, along with co-defendant Dickie Lee Goodwin Jr., 32, of Cadillac, was arrested in August in connection with a string of break-ins throughout Osceola County where they targeted various businesses. The duo was eventually arrested breaking in to Hoagland’s Hardware in Tustin.
The main thing stolen during the break-ins was cash, but electronics, computers, cash registers and safes also were stolen from the businesses.
Bailey and Goodwin were initially facing 24 charges each in Osceola County — three counts of safe breaking, one count of acquiring/maintaining a criminal enterprise, 16 counts of breaking and entering a building with intent, one count of possession of burglar’s tools, one count of receiving and concealing a stolen firearm, one count of larceny of a firearm and one count of felony firearm.
In March, Bailey was sentenced to 11 months in jail for a breaking and entering a building with intent charge in Mecosta County.
Bailey initially was charged with one count of safe breaking, two counts of breaking and entering a building with intent and one count of larceny in a building. After pleading to one count of breaking and entering a building with intent, the other three charges were dismissed as part of a plea agreement with the Mecosta County Prosecutors Office.
Goodwin is scheduled to be sentenced at 9:15 a.m. on Friday, April 29, in Osceola County's 49th Circuit Court after he also received the same plea deal Bailey was given.
Goodwin already is in prison for breaking and entering sentences out of Wexford and Missaukee counties. Bailey is on probation for breaking and entering convictions from Wexford County, as well as for the Mecosta County conviction, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections website.
