CASS COUNTY, MI — A man was sentenced to prison after he was found at a Michigan sawmill with a walnut tree that did not belong to him.

Trever Wallace was sentenced Friday, Oct. 10, to three years and two months up to ten years in prison for his criminal concealment of a fully mature walnut tree, Cass County Prosecutor Victor Fitz said.

The defendant was found with the felled tree at an area lumber yard on Dec. 21, 2024, Fitz said.

The tree’s owner was able to locate it at the sawmill before Wallace could profit from it, Fitz said.

The deciduous tree was taken without permission from a rural estate in Cass County several days earlier. It is unclear who cut the tree down, Fitz told MLive previously.

The defendant pleaded guilty as charged to larceny over $1,000, habitual third offende

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