Suspect back in court
The window peeper who stalked the streets of Rogers City back in the summer of 2001 was back in court Monday. Christopher Cannon, 29, received a sentence of seven and one-half to 20 years upon his current convictions for first-degree home invasion. Cannon was apprehended by Presque Isle Sheriff Department deputies last November after 911 calls from two separate residences in Posen. Both homeowners reported break-ins at their homes, and both had seen the intruder flee. One of the homeowners, Jim Zakshesky, had been able to catch the intruder and detain him briefly, but the man broke away and fled.
Within minutes of the 911 calls deputies John Kasuba and Cory Davis responded and Davis caught Cannon in a foot race across an open field. The police report on the incident notes that upon his capture Cannon exclaimed, ?I was trying to steal his money, not look into his windows!? Cannon was charged with two counts of first-degree home invasion, and has been held in the Presque Isle County jail until his conviction and sentencing on Monday.
Cannon first became known to Presque Isle County residents in late summer of 2001 when several complaints of a window peeper were made to Rogers City police. After weeks of investigation, a stakeout by Officer Dan Kulik paid dividends as he caught Cannon in the act. Charged with multiple counts of window peeping and also with resisting Kulik?s arrest, Cannon received a sentence of nine months in jail and two years probation for those offenses. In September of 2003 Cannon was again convicted of window peeping. This time it was in Alpena, where he received an 83-day sentence.
Currently, pending charges in Cheboygan County allege that in October 2005 he was involved in yet another window peeping offense in Cheboygan. During the sentencing hearing Monday, county prosecutor Don McLennan noted that Cannon has a total of 14 misdemeanor and four felony convictions. ?Instead of learning a lesson from his prior arrests, his criminal conduct has continued to escalate,? McLennan said, ?and so, for the protection of the public, the people request a lengthy prison sentence.?