November 30, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
A man originally charged with eight counts of forgery entered a plea to one count Monday in DeKalb County Criminal Court.
28 year old Christopher Medlin also entered a plea to violation of probation in a previous case.
Medlin will be on four years probation for the forgery after he serves the balance of a six year sentence in the previous case for violating his probation. He must also make restitution of $2,184 to one victim and $1,200 to another for the forgeries.
In other cases 37 year old Terry Wayne Knowles entered a plea to a second offense of driving on a revoked license and received a sentence of six months on supervised probation by CPS and six months of unsupervised probation if all court costs are paid.
48 year old Richard Allen Tilley entered a plea by criminal information to reckless endangerment and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days on supervised probation.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Friday, April 7, 2017 deputies were dispatched to a residence on Short Mountain Highway due to a possible domestic violence incident. While enroute, Central dispatch notified the officers that the man involved had left the residence in a white Nissan Titan. A deputy spotted the vehicle and stopped it on Short Mountain Highway. The driver, Tilley submitted to but performed poorly on field sobriety tasks. He was unsteady on his feet and had an odor of an alcoholic beverage on his person.