MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI - A man who put pieces of metal into bread at the commercial bakery where he worked has been sentenced to 90 days in the Muskegon County Jail.

Adam Brooks, 23, pleaded no contest in October to a charge of placing harmful objects in food. It was alleged that he put pieces of a metal cooling rack into loaves of bread at R.W. Bakery in Norton Shores.

On Dec. 6, he was ordered by Muskegon County Circuit Judge Timothy Hicks to serve 90 days in jail, with credit for five days. He also must serve 20 months of probation and pay about $2,000 in restitution.

The wholesale bakery ended up tossing out 80 cases of bread to make sure no contaminated loaves reached consumers, according court documents.

The metal pieces were discovered in three loaves of bread by an employee who was putting them through a slicing machine, documents show.

Another employee testified in court that he had seen Brooks breaking pieces off of metal racks used to cool the loaves. A police detective testified that surveillance video from the bakery showed Brooks placing metal into the bread.

Brooks' job that day was to remove loaves from pans and place them on the racks to cool.