Meth Makers Shackled With Sentences

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A parade of shackled defendants appeared before Judge Don Ash in Cannon County Circuit Court on Thursday, May 24 to enter guilty pleas to one or more of the charges they were facing.

The reason they were wearing shackles is because most of the defendants who had their cases adjudicated Thursday - 30 in total - were brought over to the Cannon County Courthouse from the county jail, where they had been staying since their arrest.

Following are the results of some of the cases on the docket, beginning with the pleas and sentences imposed on a number of people who were arrested during the discovery of meth labs on Feb. 21 and Feb. 26 of this year by the Woodbury Police and Cannon County Sheriff’s departments.

• David McPeak pled guilty to Facilitation of Initiating the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine, Manufacture of Methamphetamine, Maintaining a Dwelling to Manufacture Methamphetamine and Violation of Probation. He received 10 year sentences on the first two charges and 5 years on the third. He was sentenced to serve six months in the county jail and was placed on Community Corrections for a total of 15 years, fined $4,000 and assessed courts costs. He must also perform 200 hours of community service.

• Justin T. Barrett pled guilty to Facilitation of Initiating the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine, Maintaining a Dwelling to Manufacture Methamphetamine and Violation of Probation. He received a 6-year sentence on the first charge and 4 years on the second. He was ordered to serve 6 months in jailed, placed on state supervised probation for a total of 10 years, fined $2,000 and assessed court costs. He was also ordered to forfeit any property seized during his arrest.

• Mary Ann Barrett pled guilty to Maintaining a Dwelling to Manufacture Methamphetamine. She was given a 4-year suspended sentence, placed on state supervised probation for 4 years, assessed court costs and order to forfeit property seized.

• Tiffany Mullins-Cross pled guilty to Facilitation of Initiating the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine, to Maintaining a Dwelling to Manufacture Methamphetamine and to Facilitation to Manufacture Methamphetamine. On count one she received a 6-year partially suspended sentence, on count two a 4-year partially-suspended sentence and count three a 6-year partially suspended sentence. The sentences will run concurrent. She will serve 6 months in jail and be on state supervised probation for 6 years. She was also fined $2,000 and ordered to pay court costs.

• Cynthia D. Thomas pled guilty to Facilitation of Initiating the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine, Maintaining a Dwelling to Manufacture Methamphetamine and Violation of Probation. She was ordered to serve one year in jail for violating probation. She received a 10-year suspended sentence, a $2,000 fine and was assessed court costs for Facilitation. Her Maintaining a Dwelling sentence was 8 years. She will be on Community Corrections for 10 years and perform 200 hours of community service.

• Amy Beth Tribble pled guilty to Facilitation of Initiating the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine and to Violation of Probation. On the meth conviction she was given a 6-year suspended sentence, placed on 6 years Community Corrections, fined $2,000 and assessed court costs. She must also perform 200 hours of community service. She was ordered to serve 12 years in jail (her original sentence) for violating probation. The sentence meth sentence will run consecutive to the VOP sentence.

• Jerry Gunter pled guilty to Facilitation of the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine and to Maintaining a Dwelling to Manufacture Methamphetamine. He received a 6-year partially-suspended sentence on the first count and a 4-year suspended sentence on the second. He was ordered to serve 6 months in jail. The sentences will run concurrently. He was also fined $2,000, assessed court costs and was placed on state supervised probation for 6 years.

• Cody J. Shaffer pled guilty to Initiation of the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine. He received a 12-year partially suspended sentence and was ordered to serve 6 months in jail. He was placed on Community Corrections for 12 years, fined $2,000 and assessed court costs. He was also ordered to forfeit property seized.

• Donna M. McPeak pled guilty to Manufacture of Methamphetamine Under .5 grams. She received a 6-year suspended sentence, 6 years on state supervised probation, a $2,000 fine and was assessed court costs. She also pled guilty to Maintaining a Dwelling to Manufacture Methamphetamine and received a 4-year suspended sentence and equal probation time. The sentences will run concurrently. McPeak also pled guilty to Possession of a Fireman and was ordered to serve 30 days in jail. As part of her sentence she must also receive 1 year of inpatient or outpatient drug and alcohol treatment at her own expense and forfeit property seized.

• Justin Taggart pled guilty to Initiation of the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine. He received a partially-suspended 12-year sentence, was ordered to serve 6 months in jail, placed on Community Corrections for 12 years, fined $2,000, accessed court costs, and was ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.

• Dakota T. Jones pled guilty to Sale of Schedule III Narcotics. He received a 4-year suspended sentence, a $2,000 fine, was assessed court costs and was placed on state supervised probation for 4 years. He must also attend an inpatient or outpatient drug/alcohol treatment program for one year at his own expenses. In exchange for amending the charge to exclude that the drugs were sold in a school zone, Jones agreed he would serve his entire sentence if he violates probation.

• Alexander K. Webb pled guilty to Facilitation of the Initiation of the Process to Manufacture Methamphetamine. He receives a 6-year suspended sentence, a $2,000 fine, was assessed court costs and was placed on state supervised probation for 6 years.

• Dana Thompson pled guilty to Simple Possession of Schedule II Narcotics (cocaine) and to Simple Possession of Marijuana. She was given a suspended sentence of 11 months, 29 days on both charges, to run concurrent, fined a total of $1,000 and assessed court costs.

• Marissa Gilley entered a conditional plea of guilty under judicial diversion to Promotion of Manufacture of Methamphetamine. She was placed on state supervised probation for 2 years, fined $2,000 and assessed court costs.

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