ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. — A plea deal has been reached for a former sheriff’s deputy accused of soliciting intercourse and nude images from ladies in alternate for cash that prosecutors say they used to purchase medicine.
Stephen Bunnell, the previous chief deputy of the Caledonia County Sheriff’s Division, pleaded not responsible final fall to 2 counts of misdemeanor prohibited acts and two counts of prohibited conduct on suspicion of paying ladies for intercourse and nude images.
A plea settlement filed in courtroom on Monday requires Bunnell to plead responsible to 1 depend of prohibited conduct and an amended cost of disturbing the peace by phone in alternate for a two-year deferred sentence, a $100 superb and $162 in courtroom surcharges, the Caledonian-File reported. The opposite two expenses can be dismissed.
Underneath the plea deal, Bunnell should adjust to the usual circumstances of probation and take part and full “a program or therapy for intercourse offenders” by way of the Division of Corrections. He additionally can be banned from partaking in any work or volunteer place by which he has direct supervisory authority over females, the newspaper reported.
The plea settlement have to be authorized by a choose. A change-of-plea listening to has not but been scheduled.
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