STEVENS POINT, WI (WTAQ) – A Stevens Point man is expected to ask a judge Wednesday morning to accept a plea deal for setting a store on fire, and helping a fellow jail inmate try to commit suicide.
19-year-old Brian Kraus is currently charged in Portage County with arson, assisting suicide, and violation institution laws.
Prosecutors say he set a fire last spring that damaged the Stevens Point Dollar General store — and while in custody, he tried helping Larry Sanchez hang himself.
The 59-year-old Sanchez is scheduled to go on trial July 19th for allegedly killing his estranged wife in Bancroft last June, and holding police at bay for 4 hours.
Kraus had pleaded insanity in the arson case.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
