December 12, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
A Sparta woman has been sentenced on an aggravated assault charge two months after she allegedly stabbed a man during an argument at a residence in Dowelltown.
44-year-old Christie Dawn Bouldin entered a plea by criminal information Monday to aggravated assault and received a 5-year sentence suspended to supervised probation. She is also under a restraining order from the victim. The case is to run consecutive to any other case she may have. Restitution in the case is to be determined by probation if any. Bouldin was given 58 days jail credit.
Chief Deputy Brian Williams of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department said that on October 11 deputies responded to South Mill Street for a stabbing. Upon arrival, officers spoke to the victim (a man) who had numerous stab wounds on his upper body and head. According to the victim, Bouldin had stabbed him several times with a tire punch. The man suffered severe injuries and he was life flighted. Bouldin then fled the scene but was taken into custody the following morning.
According to the report, the deputies made contact with the victim who had an abundance of blood coming from his head area. The officers asked the victim what happened. He stated that he and Bouldin were in a bedroom when she began arguing with him. He said she knocked him down, jumped on top of him and stabbed him all over with a tire punch. The man said Bouldin then ran out the front door. The victim then went to a neighbor’s home where they called 911.
A Liberty man arrested in July after he was spotted driving a stolen vehicle appeared for sentencing in criminal court Monday.
34-year-old Dustin Kane Underhill entered a plea to theft over $10,000 and received a 3-year sentence all suspended to supervised probation. The term is to run concurrently with a Rutherford County probation. Underhill was given jail credit from July 25 to December 9, 2024.
Chief Deputy Brian Williams of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department said that on July 25 Underhill allegedly stole a 2016 Ford F150 4×4 valued at $37,000 from a driveway on Groom Street, Liberty. Criminal investigators spotted the stolen vehicle traveling on North Congress Boulevard in Smithville and pulled it over. Underhill, the driver, was placed in custody.
27-year-old Keely Jacobs entered a plea by criminal information to one count of methamphetamine possession over 0.5 grams with intent to sell or deliver. She received an 8-year sentence all suspended to supervised probation and was fined $8,000. Jacobs was given jail credit from September 9 to December 9, 2024.
Jacobs was originally charged with offenses on August 27 & 31 and September 4,9 & 12 including, bringing contraband into a penal institution; possession of methamphetamine with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver (2 counts); identity theft (3 counts); driving on a revoked or suspended license (3 counts); possession of a controlled substance with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver; criminal impersonation; prescription drug fraud; and possession of drug paraphernalia.
29-year-old Shadayda Storm Farris entered a plea to attempting to facilitate identity theft and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days all suspended to supervised probation. The sentence is to run concurrently with a Cumberland County TDOC sentence against her. She was given jail credit from April 28 to July 13, 2024 and from November 6 to December 9, 2024.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that during a DUI arrest on April 28, Farris said her name was Skylar Fox and gave her date of birth as November 14, 1995. Farris’s actual birth date is July 3, 1995. He added that on Thursday, May 2 after her fingerprint confirmation came back through the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), it was revealed that Fox’s real identity is Shadayda Storm Farris and that she knowingly and intentionally gave the wrong name and date of birth during her April 28 DUI arrest. Farris later admitted in an interview that the name and birth date she gave previously was that of a close friend.
55-year-old Alphonso Dewayne Maynard entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug and received a 10-year sentence all suspended to TDOC supervised probation. He was fined $2,000 and given 82 days jail credit.
51-year-old Shawn Edward Soales entered a plea to methamphetamine possession with intent to sell under 0.5 grams and received a 6-year TDOC sentence suspended to supervised probation. He was fined $2,000. The sentence is to run consecutively with another case against him