Drug Defendants Sentenced in Criminal Court

April 11, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Several people arrested in undercover drug investigations by the sheriff’s department last year were sentenced Monday in criminal court.

Judge Gary McKenzie presided.

41 year old Jessica Renee Owen entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug (Oxycodone) and received a 5 year sentence on TDOC probation. She must pay a $2,000 fine and make restitution of $160 to the sheriff’s department.

22 year old Jacob Fisher Murphy entered a plea to sale of over 0.5 grams of methamphetamine and received an 8 year sentence on TDOC probation except for 180 days in the county jail. He was fined $2,000 and must make $200 restitution to the sheriff’s department. Murphy was given 20 days jail credit. The term is to run concurrently with his probation in another felony case.

19 year old Robert Stephen Derrick entered a plea to two counts of casual exchange and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days in each case to run consecutively but he will be on probation subject to judicial diversion. He must make $620 restitution to the sheriff’s department.

42 year old Dana Michelle Taylor entered a plea to sale of a schedule III drug (buprenorphine) and received a 4 year sentence on TDOC probation. She was fined $2,000 and must make $325 restitution to the sheriff’s department.

38 year old Jayme Denise Hendrixson entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine over 0.5 grams) and received 8 years on TDOC probation after serving 180 days in the county jail. She was fined $2,000. The term is to run concurrently with another case against her. She was given jail credit of 69 days.

April 10, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County High School recently recognized Wilson Bank & Trust for supporting DCHS baseball with a new sponsored scoreboard. WBT Smithville Office Manager Chad Colwell joined Tiger baseball players and coaches in dedicating the new scoreboard, which has been in use this season.

Wilson Bank & Trust (www.wilsonbank.com), member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender, operates 28 full-service offices in nine Middle Tennessee counties, and offers a full range of financial products that include secondary market mortgage loans and mobile and online banking services.

April 10, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

A man responsible for breaking into a truck almost two years ago has been sentenced in the case.

47 year old Stanley William Morris, Jr. of Oak Street, Smithville appeared in DeKalb County Criminal Court Monday where he entered a plea to burglary of an automobile. He received a 2 year TDOC sentence suspended to supervised probation. He must make restitution to the victim.

Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on November 9, 2016 Morris and another person broke into a 1998 Nissan Frontier. Entry was made by breaking out the glass window.  A machete and  a fold up chair were stolen from the truck.

The case was investigated by a Sheriff’s Department Detective.

Meanwhile, 28 year old Michaela Lynn Murphy and 46 year old Melissa Faye Murphy each entered a plea to theft under $1,000 and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days suspended to probation with the first six months supervised and the remainder unsupervised if court costs and restitution are paid within the first six months. They must make restitution of $1,216 to their victim jointly and severally.

35 year old Jason Witherspoon entered a plea to worthless check over $2,500 and received a sentence of four years all suspended to supervised probation. He must make restitution of $5,500 to his victim.

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