A Detroit man pleaded guilty Friday to using a fraudulent credit card at the Genoa Township Meijer to make purchases.
Emmanuel Thomas Dawson pleaded guilty as charged to illegal use of a financial transaction device in exchange for prosecutors dismissing a charge of conspiracy to commit the same crime.
Dawson, 29, admitted that he and co-defendant John Thomas Cotton used the fraudulent credit card at the store in August.
Dawson, who will be sentenced as a habitual offender, faces up to eight years in prison. Sentencing is set for Oct. 29 before Judge Michael P. Hatty.
Dawson's criminal history includes a conviction for armed robbery and felony firearms.
Dawson also faces new charges in Livingston County for delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance. Details on the Drug Enforcement Administration's investigation was not immediately available Friday.
Cotton, 20, was sentenced last week to 15 days in the county jail and given credit for 15 days already served. He was given two years of probation under the state's Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, which means he will have no public criminal record if he is successful on probation.
Both Dawson and Cotton were ordered to pay $7,684 in restitution.
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