STANTON - A Greenville man pleaded guilty to a robbery at Wal-Mart, had his plea thrown out of court, then sat through a preliminary examination Tuesday afternoon.

Jeremiah Brown, 28, decided to accept a plea agreement from the Montcalm County Prosecutor's Office just before his hearing began. He is charged with two counts of unarmed robbery and one count of possessing a controlled substance, but pleaded guilty to attempted unarmed robbery in exchange for a possible five-month jail sentence - instead of a 15-year prison sentence.

Brown said he took a camera battery from the Wal-Mart in Greenville the evening of Nov. 22 and was going to steal it, but decided not to when he saw a woman watching him, so he put the battery on the photo counter and walked away. He said a group of Wal-Mart security officers confronted him as he was leaving the store.