LOGAN, W.Va. — Sentencing is scheduled for June for a former Logan County coffee shop owner who pleaded guilty to three criminal charges.
Logan County Prosecutor David Wandling said in a plea agreement with prosecutors, Michael Dean Cline, 49, pleaded guilty to three felony crimes connected to solicitation and taking sexually explicit photos of two underaged teenage girls.
West Virginia State Police raided Cline’s Hot Cup coffee shop in Logan County in February 2023. Cline was arrested then and charged at that time with with one count each of first-degree and second-degree sexual assault and two counts of distributing and possessing child pornography.
According to original court filings, the victim told State Police her and Cline had a personal relationship between November of 2015 until October 2019.
In the criminal complaint, the alleged victim said when she turned 18, she had sent Cline about 100 nude photos and about 30 graphic videos of herself through Facebook Messenger, some of those images and videos were while the victim was underage.
Cline faces up to nine years in prison and a $29,000 fine when he’s sentenced on June 18.