MENOMINEE, MI— A former Menominee County Sheriff’s deputy already serving time for criminal sexual conduct was sentenced last week to 40 to 60 months in prison in another case.
Brian Helfert, 61, was convicted in December of second-degree CSC with a weapon. He’s currently serving 9 to 15 years in prison on that charge.
He requested a jury trial in a case where he was accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy at Blesch Intermediate School in 2017. Helfert was a school resource officer at the time.
Trial was set for the end of July, but Helfert agreed to a plea deal in which he pleaded no contest to one of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The other count was dropped.
Helfert’s sentences will run concurrently.
