March 22, 2023
By: Dwayne Page
A 22-year-old man charged with aggravated assault and bringing drugs into the jail in 2022 has been sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court.
Caleb Ryan Warrick of Lebanon appeared before Judge Wesley Bray on Tuesday, March 21 and entered a plea by criminal information to one count of aggravated assault and one count of introduction of contraband into a penal facility. He received a three-year sentence in each case to run concurrently all suspended to supervised probation. He received jail credit from December 26th, 2022 to March 21, 2023.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on August 1, 2022 a deputy was called to a residence on Moore Taylor Road due to a child custody issue involving a gun. Upon arrival the officer spoke with a man who reported that two people showed up in a vehicle for the purpose of helping move someone out of the residence. The man said when he asked them to leave, the passenger of the automobile, Warrick pulled and cocked a gun, pointing it at him before leaving. An NCIC background check revealed that Warrick was under bond conditions out of Wilson County which prohibited him from carrying a weapon and being near a woman who was at this residence on Moore Taylor Road.
Almost five months later Warrick, a prisoner at the jail was found with cocaine and fentanyl hidden in his rectum.
Sheriff Ray said that on December 26, 2022 during a strip search of Warrick, a male correctional officer found a baggie containing 12 grams of a white powdery substance which Warrick produced from his rectum. The substances were tested and believed to be cocaine and fentanyl.