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Twenty-five-year-old Brandon Ortiz Vite entered the plea in a Grand Rapids courtroom and is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 31. His girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, was found shot to death on the side of a highway in March.

Trice pled guilty this past July to one count each of First-Degree Murder and First-Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct.

Karl Robart will face at least 19 months in prison and perhaps more when he returns to court for his sentence in October

A judge in Ionia County stacked two 35-year terms for Mandy Benn, making for a rare consecutive punishment in Michigan courts. Police said Benn was under the influence of drugs when she crossed the center line and hit a group of bicyclists on a rural road.

The arrest is the second announced by the city’s police department since the Oct. 21 slaying of 40-year-old Samantha Woll, who was found dead outside her near-downtown home hours after returning from a wedding.