July 18, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
A 33-year-old Sparta man accused of seriously injuring a 4-year-old child two years ago resulting in a bone fracture was sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court Monday (July 18).
Judge Wesley Bray presided.
Charles David Woody entered a plea to aggravated child abuse and received 15 years to serve in the Tennessee Department of Correction. He was given jail credit from June 22, 2020 to July 18, 2022
On May 9th, 2020 the indictment alleges that Woody did unlawfully, knowingly, and other than by accidental means, inflict injury upon a 4-year-old child resulting in serious bodily injury, : to wit: bone fracture thereby committing the offense of aggravated child abuse.
A Smithville man arrested in July 2020 for breaking into and doing damage to a residence on Page Drive was sentenced Monday.
37-year-old Michael Andrew Snyders, Jr. entered a plea to aggravated burglary and received a sentence of 4 years all suspended to supervised probation upon condition that he complete a long-term program at the Restoration Ranch. All other cases against him are to be dismissed. Snyders was given jail credit of 54 days and must make restitution of $1,234
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on July 23, 2020 Snyders broke into a home on Page Drive through the front door and vandalized the inside of the residence. Home video surveillance showed him making entry. Damage to the home totaled $1,650. According to the report, Snyders tore up flooring in the closets and bathrooms, pulled up and broke duct work, and tore wires out of the heating and air units.
37-year-old Edward Lee Judkins, Jr. entered a plea to theft over $2,500 and received an effective 8-year sentence as a range II offender suspended to supervised probation. Judkins will get jail credit from June 21, 2020 to May 10, 2022 and he must make restitution of $3,000 to the victim. Other charges against him are to be dismissed.
Sheriff Ray said that on Friday, July 10, 2020 a deputy was called to a residence on Old Blue Springs Road to investigate the possible theft of a brown two-tone Chevrolet truck. Judkins had just broken into the truck, destroying the steering column to gain access to the ignition, before driving away in reverse as the deputy and a detective arrived on the scene. In trying to make his getaway, Judkins ran into a maroon Ford truck parked at the residence, and then went through a row of hedges onto the property of a neighbor causing $239 worth of damage to some landscaping there. After the truck stalled Judkins jumped out and fled on foot. Later a call came in that Judkins had returned to the same home on Old Blue Springs Road and entered by kicking in a door. As officers arrived back on the scene, they captured Judkins after spotting him climbing out a front window.
23-year-old Harley Paige Johnson entered a plea to Sale of a Schedule II drug (Amphetamine) and received a sentence of 4 years suspended to judicial diversion and she was fined $2,000.
31-year-old William Richard Denton entered a plea to Sale and delivery of a Schedule II drug (Amphetamine) and received a sentence of 4 years suspended to supervised probation and he was fined $2,000. Denton was given 15 days jail credit.
57-year-old Aubrey Kilgore entered a plea to a 4th offense of driving under the influence and received a one-year sentence on supervised probation. He was given jail credit of 150 days. Kilgore was fined $3,000 and will lose his driver license as per Tennessee Department of Safety regulations.