After pleading guilty to assault with intent to murder his mother, Cory Wagner was sentenced to 15 to 35 years in prison last October.

Wagner’s girlfriend, Tiffany Chanthavong was sentenced to prison for 23.3 to 40 years in prison after pleading to the same charge.  Both were allowed to withdraw their pleas on legal technicalities to do with plea taking procedures, and both sought new trials.

Yesterday,in circuit court, Wagner again pleaded guilty to assault with intent to murder.  His sentencing date is set for Nov. 16 at 8:10 a.m. Chanthavong will be in court on Oct. 26.

On July 4, 2016, the couple went to Wagner’s mother’s house on Huff Road in Assyria Township asking for money to leave the state for him to get away from problems with the law in Michigan.  When Diane Wagner refused, the pair severely beat her, threatened her with a knife, bound her with duct tape, tied her to a chair, locked her in a bathroom, took her credit card and her car and fled.  They were arrested in Illinois the next day and brought back to Barry County for trial.