A Battle Creek man will serve time in the Huron County Jail and pay more than $10,000 in restitution after he pleaded guilty to using stolen credit card numbers to buy more than $7,000 in lottery tickets from a Bad Axe party store.
Ruben Darnell Whimper, 25, pleaded no contest to false pretenses — $1,000 to $20,000 and illegal use of a financial transaction device on July 17 in 52nd Circuit Court.
On Monday morning, Huron County 52nd Circuit Court Judge Gerald M. Prill sentenced Whimper to 270 days in jail, with credit for 137 days served, on the false pretenses conviction and 180 days in jail, with credit for 137 days served, on the financial transaction device conviction…