Tristen Lee Vencill of Trenton pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors counts stemming from his arrest in January. The Associate Circuit Court followed a plea agreement that included days in jail, a fine, and a donation. On a charge of resisting or interfering with an arrest, detention or stop, Vencill was sentenced to ten days in […]
A Trenton resident has waived preliminary hearings on several felony charges. Misdemeanor cases have been certified to be heard in a higher court. Cody James Burchett of Trenton appeared yesterday in the Associate Division of court. Charges include assault in the third degree: special victim; attempted tampering with a witness in a felony prosecution; as […]
Numerous cases were processed Thursday in Division One of the Grundy County Circuit Court. Bobby Dean Morgans the second of Trenton has been sentenced to prison for theft of a county ambulance, a burglary, and probation violations. Morgans admitted to the violations and probation was revoked. A previously suspended sentence was set aside and a […]
Following a probation violation hearing, the original probation was revoked, jail time imposed and another probation established for court cases involving William Nicholas Griffin of rural Trenton. Griffin, in Associate Division of circuit court, admitted to the allegations of violation. The court revoked probation and Griffin was sentenced to 60 days confinement at the Grundy […]
Five defendants Tuesday waived preliminary hearings in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court. Each of the cases was bound over to future dates for arraignments in Division One of the circuit court. Matthew John Woody of Trenton has six felony counts. These include two counts for unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a […]
A Lathrop, man was sentenced in federal court for a $1.7 million fraud scheme related to the sale of his business. Todd Edwin Rood, 53, of Lathrop, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to four years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Rood to pay $1,347,608 in restitution and […]
A Liberty, Mo., attorney was sentenced in federal court for obstruction of justice after stealing funds earmarked for victim restitution. Robert J. Young II, 48, of Liberty, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips to three years and one month in federal prison without parole. On Nov. 6, 2017, Young was found guilty of […]
A St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for his second federal bank robbery conviction. Terry L. Hager, 50, of St. Joseph, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., to 11 years and one month in federal prison without parole. Today’s sentence includes a 33-month term of incarceration upon the […]
While the whereabouts of 19-year-old Tanner Ward of Trenton remains a mystery, local authorities have now issued a warrant for his arrest. Online court information shows a probation violation report was filed Tuesday by the Missouri Probation and Parole. The information also shows a capias warrant was issued July 6 at the request of the […]
A Princeton woman, 29-year-old Valerie Robinson, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for her involvement in a traffic accident last year in Mercer County that claimed the life of another Princeton woman and injured two family members. Sentencing was yesterday in Division One of the Grundy County Circuit Court before special judge Steve Hudson. In […]
Sentencing was yesterday afternoon at the Courthouse in Bethany for a man accused of poisoning his wife nearly ten years ago when they lived in Harrison County. Samuel Borntreger was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of second-degree murder. He had pleaded guilty June 21st in Division One of the Harrison County Circuit […]
The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Adam Baker Thursday in the shooting death of his 26-year-old wife Holly Baker in a trial that began Monday, July 11. The Cameron man was convicted of Second Degree Murder and armed criminal action in a trial that lasted just four days in the death of his […]
A Trenton man, David Wayne Manus Jr. received a seven-year sentence to the Department of Corrections in connection with the abduction of a 9-year-old Trenton girl in October of 2015. Manus pleaded guilty in court on Thursday, June 23 to charges of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child as well as sexual misconduct by […]
19-year-old Isaac Wattenbarger of Trenton pleaded guilty to misdemeanor first-degree trespassing in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court. Wattenbarger was sentenced to 28 days in the Grundy County Detention Center, but given credit for already serving those days. Wattenbarger received 33 days in the Grundy County Detention Center when he did not have […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office was charged with having 19 detainees in court, on June 14. With the help of Daviess-Dekalb County Regional Jail, there were 3 transport vans of detainees as well as a handful of jail staff to assist the deputies and sheriff with court and detainee security. Jefferson O. Patton, 34, who […]
The death of a 49-year-old inmate at Crossroads, the state’s maximum-security prison in Cameron on Friday, May 6, is under investigation. Timothy Adams was pronounced dead at 12:13 p.m. Friday in the Crossroads Correctional Center. Adams was serving a life sentence for being an accessory to first-degree murder and an accessory to armed criminal action. […]
(KRCG-TV) – A Macon man accused of murdering a 92-year-old Moberly woman with a machete 3 years ago on Easter Sunday will not face the death penalty. Christopher Lewis, 21, cut a deal with prosecutors by offering guilty pleas to 19 charges in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of […]
(St. Joseph News Press) – After listening to some five hour of testimony, Circuit Judge Patrick Robb sentenced Joseph Johnson, 16, to life in prison for the murder of James Johnson, his grandfather and adopted father. For the murder of Beverly Johnson, his grandmother and adopted mother, Johnson received a second life sentence to be […]
In the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court, 41-year old Toby Street of Trenton has waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to Division 1 of Circuit Court on charges accusing felony possession of methamphetamine and possessing numerous smoking devices, intended to be used with methamphetamine. A charge accusing Street with misdemeanor passing […]
(St. Joseph News-Press) – One of the two men accused and convicted in the stabbing death of Richard Berry last April now faces a charge of attempted escape from prison. Sean Liechti, 25, who was convicted in Berry’s death on a county bridge over the Third Fork of the Platte River, was allegedly joined in […]
