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Jordan Haskins (Courtesy Photo/Saginaw County Sheriff's Office)

SAGINAW, MI -- The 26-year-old man with a self-professed fetish for rough-running cars will avoid prison time and instead receive mental health and sex offender treatment, along with five years probation.

Jordan Haskins was sentenced Monday, May 8, on eight felonies in two separate auto incidents -- one late last year and one early in 2017.

Haskins is a habitual offender with a criminal history of multiple incidents involving a fetish he refers to as "cranking." The act entails removing a vehicle's spark plug wires to make the vehicle run roughly to help reach sexual self-gratification.

Circuit Judge Robert L. Kaczmarek handed down the sentence of long-term probation with mental health and sex offender treatment over prison time.

"It's something I don't think we understand as attorneys, but he's going to benefit from treatment and counseling," Haskins' attorney, James Hession, said in a previous interview.

Hession said his client will not have to register as a sex offender.

In April, Haskins pleaded guilty to six counts of unlawfully driving away an automobile, one count malicious destruction of property and one count breaking and entering into a building with intent to commit unlawfully driving away an automobile.

The felonies against Haskins stem from two vehicle incidents, one involving cranking and the other joyriding. In the first case against him, police say Haskins on Nov. 20 had broken into and cranked in a Saginaw County-owned maintenance truck.

In the second case against him, police say Haskins on Feb. 6 broke into the body shop of Martin Chevrolet on 8800 Gratiot Road in Thomas Township and took four vehicles for joyrides.

"This person took some vehicles from the body shop and drove around the back lot area, damaging the vehicles and jumping over hills," Thomas Township Police Sgt. Al Fong said at the time. "It was a joyride."

Police said they did not find evidence he was cranking in them. They arrested Haskins that same day in another vehicle, one stolen from Saginaw.

Hession previously said Haskins, who is a former Republican candidate for a Michigan House seat, is a bright man brought down by untreated compulsions.

"He's a good person, he has a lot of aspirations for the future, he's highly intelligent," Hession, said. "However, he's had some problems with compulsive conduct which gave rise to these charges."