Given that choice by a Lenawee County judge, a Tecumseh teenager who pleaded guilty to trying to break into a church opted for the latter.
Circuit Judge Timothy Pickard told 17-year-old Dylan Patrick Karle on Thursday that he could avoid jail if he would apologize to the congregation of the United Methodist Church in Tecumseh and attend services there for the next three Sundays.
Karle, who is a member of the church, promptly accepted Pickard’s offer.