Stabbing Suspect Convicted

An elderly Western Upper Peninsula man convicted of stabbing a sheriff’s deputy will spend at least two years behind bars. 75-year-old Andrew Bray of Norway pled no contest in May to charges of assault less than murder and carrying a concealed weapon. He was sentenced Monday in Dickinson County Circuit Court to a minimum of 23 months to 10 years in prison on the assault charge and 23 months to five years on the weapons charge. Bray was given credit for 492 days already served. The sentences will run concurrently. Bray was accused of stabbing a Dickinson County Sheriff’s deputy at the Pine Mountain Continental Cup Ski Jumping Tournament in Iron Mountain in February 2013.