GAYLORD — James Platte Jr. could end up serving more time in prison than the 34-month to 15-year sentence handed down in 46th Circuit Court Wednesday for drug possession.

Judge Dennis Murphy sentenced Platte to two concurrent terms of 34 months to 15 years on one count each for possession of Oxycodone and Clonazepam. Murphy ordererd Platte, who was out on parole last year prior to his arrest on a number of charges, to serve the latest sentences consecutive to any parole violations.

In another matter, Platte will be scheduled for a one-day trial in Circuit Court following Wednesday’s pretrial hearing for the alleged assault of a cellmate at the Otsego County Jail last month. He had been arraigned on one count of assault with great bodily harm less than murder after he allegedly hit a cellmate in the back with a plastic milk crate and punched the man with his fists following a June 14 argument over whose turn it was to clean the jail cell.

The 30-year-old Platte, who had been jailed since August, was scheduled to be transferred from the county jail to a Michigan Department of Corrections prison on Friday.

In yet another court matter involving Platte, charges stemming from an Aug. 27 incident in Bagley Township have been temporarily dismissed (nolle prosequi) while the Otsego County prosecutor’s office awaits DNA results in the case. Those results will be used to make a positive determination of where Platte was sitting when his girlfriend’s Jeep Cherokee crashed into a tree. The woman, Dianna Horridge, told authorities she was an unwilling passenger and that Platte was driving and deliberately crashed the vehicle.

Prosecutor Kyle Legel said those charges — attempted murder, domestic violence and failure to stop at a personal injury accident — likely would be reinstated once he receives those lab results.

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