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Karissa Lynette Williams pleaded no contest to third-degree assault in Linn County Circuit Court on Aug. 9 and was sentenced to 30 days in jail with three years of probation in connection with an April case in which a victim said she had been kidnapped.

Among the remaining defendants in the case, Joseph Rafael Gutierrez was previously sentenced to 30 days in jail for third-degree assault.

Daniel Fred Schroeder faces a trial beginning on Oct. 16 on two counts of first-degree kidnapping and a single count of third-degree assault.

Michell Dawn Slay entered a guilty plea for third-degree as...