January 16, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
A McMinnville man charged in an attempted aggravated robbery in April 2016 was sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court Wednesday.
21 year old Charles Robert Fults, Jr. entered a plea to attempted aggravated robbery and received a five year sentence to serve in the Tennessee Department of Correction. The sentence is to run concurrent with a case against him in Warren County. He is under a restraining order to keep away from the victim.
A co-defendant, 22 year old Logan Tyler Martin entered a plea to the same charge last July in criminal court and also received a five year sentence to serve. The term is to run concurrently with a Warren County sentence against him and he is under a restraining order to keep away from the victim. Martin was given jail credit from April 29 to April 30, 2016 and from June 19 to July 17, 2018.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Friday, April 29, 2016 Martin, who was age 19 at the time, drove up to a location on McMinnville Highway where the intended victim was doing some yard work. Fults, 18 years old at the time, was a passenger with Martin. Fults got out of the vehicle, pulled a silver knife as he approached the victim and demanded his wallet. When the victim refused to hand over the wallet, Fults got back in the vehicle with Martin and they drove away. After the offense was reported to authorities a Be on the Lookout (BOLO) was issued to other law enforcement agencies. The vehicle was spotted in Warren County where Fults and Martin were taken into custody.