Man sentenced in drug-smuggling case

A 34-year-old man has been sentenced from an incident related to drug-smuggling at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater.

Brandon Haggart will serve one to five years in prison after pleading guilty to being a prisoner in possession of contraband. That sentence is in addition to the 7 to 15 years he is currently serving after pleading no contest to two charges of second-degree criminal-sexual conduct.

The investigation into drug smuggling started while Haggart was incarcerated at the Branch County facility. During a visit in November 2022, Haggart’s 65-year-old mother, Cheryl Haggart, handed her son a facemask containing strips of Suboxone, a prescription medicine used to treat opioid addiction.

Cheryl Haggart has plead guilty to a felony count of furnishing contraband to a prisoner. She is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 13.