A Gordonsville woman charged with using someone else’s debit/credit card to make purchases last October and for stealing items from another person’s home in January appeared in DeKalb County Criminal Court last Tuesday.

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33 year old Robin Lynn Woodard entered a plea by criminal information to theft over $2,500 and fraudulent use of a credit card. She received a three year sentence in the theft case and two years for the other charge but the terms are to run concurrently for a total of three years. Woodard was granted TDOC probation. She must make restitution of $4,430 to one victim and $1,509 to another. Woodard also entered a plea to a separate offense of simple possession of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine). In that case, she received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days to be on probation after serving 30 days in the county jail. This sentence is to run concurrently with the others against her. She was given jail credit of 43 days.

Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on October 10, 12, and 13, 2017 Woodard allegedly used a debit/credit card for the following purposes: On October 10 for a bill payment of $42.95 and Straight Talk air time for $63. 35; On October 12 for Globaltel in the amount of $45.99, PayPal for $150, a Pre-paid plus for $450, and Total Wireless for $10; and October 13 for VendEngine on three occasions in amounts of $98.62, $90.23, and $25.00, Grumby’s Bail Bonding for $100, Google Pinger for $9.99, and L2GTN Safety for $424.

Meanwhile on January 9, 2018 Woodard allegedly took from the residence of another victim a 30.30 rifle, an M1 30 Carbine Rifle, Cross Bow, 19 inch flat screen TV, Jewelry, digital camera, quilts, sheets, clothes and a wii console. The total value of the stolen items is $4,430.

In the drug case, Sheriff Ray said that on Sunday, May 6 a deputy stopped a white Nissan Maxima at the intersection of Dry Creek Road and Old Dry Creek Road due to a wanted person (Woodard) inside the vehicle. Woodard was the driver. A check through central dispatch revealed that her license were revoked for a 2009 driving under the influence offense in Wilson County with no reinstatement. She also has a prior offense against her for driving on a revoked license in Smith County. While she was being placed under arrest, the officer asked Woodard if she had anything illegal on her person and she turned over to him a baggie containing 1.5 grams of a clear crystal like substance believed to be methamphetamine.

A nine year old girl and a woman were airlifted after a one car crash Saturday afternoon on Evins Mill Road.

Trooper Jason Cobble of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said 20 year old Alex Chase Upchurch of Smithville was traveling north in a 1995 Mercury Grand Marquis when he failed to negotiate a curve, went off the right side of the roadway, and struck a tree.

21 year old Courtney Johnson was a passenger along with the nine year old girl and two other children, including a six year old boy and another boy, who is almost two years old.

A helicopter ambulance landed in a pasture by the road to airlift the nine year old girl to Vanderbilt Hospital. The other passengers were transported by DeKalb EMS to Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital. Upchurch was not injured but went to the hospital with the others. Johnson was later airlifted from the hospital to Vanderbilt.

The names of the children were not released because they are minors.

Members of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department and Sheriff’s Department were also on the scene.

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will be participating in Operation Dry Water, June 29-July 1. Operation Dry Water is a national weekend of Boating Under the Influence (BUI) awareness and enforcement campaign directed toward reducing alcohol and drug-related accidents and fatalities.

Operation Dry Water is held the weekend prior to the Independence Day (July 4) holiday to give BUI enforcement high visibility during the peak boating season. The TWRA is teaming with the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA). Operation Dry Water was started by the NASBLA in 2009.

TWRA boating officers will saturate high traffic areas on reservoirs across the state. Along with the use of life jackets and other safety practices, officers want boaters to be aware of the effects and ramifications of alcohol use. The TWRA will be intensifying efforts to detect and apprehend boat operators who are operating under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

In 2017 during Operation Dry Water, there were 13 boating under the influence (BUI) arrests across the state.

Operating a boat with a Blood Alcohol Content of .08 percent or higher is illegal in Tennessee, the same as operating a motor vehicle. Penalties may include fines, jail, boat impoundment and the loss of boat driving privileges.

Alcohol use is the leading contributing factor in recreational boater deaths. Sun, wind, noise, vibration and motion intensify the effects of alcohol, drugs and some medications.

For more information on Operation Dry Water, visit www.operationdrywater.org.