MENOMINEE, Mich. (Great Lakes News) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said an Upper Peninsula man has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 of timber from the state.

R&J Logging owner Raymond Vetort of Stephenson issued the plea yesterday and will pay $50,000 in restitution before he is sentenced on December 10.

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Vetort took timber that wasn’t allowed by his contract to log on state land.