December 12, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
An escapee who has been incarcerated in Florida for the past year was extradited to DeKalb County last week and sentenced in Criminal Court on Tuesday, December 11.
27 year old Daniel Trey Hamilton of Jacobs Pillar Road, Smithville, under indictment for escape, appeared before Judge David Patterson for arraignment and decided to enter a guilty plea to the escape charge. Hamilton will serve 11 months and 29 days but he has been given jail credit since November 27, 2017.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said Hamilton was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida after being involved in a traffic accident there one week after his escape from the DeKalb County Jail on November 21, 2017.
At the time of his escape last November, Hamilton was serving a 60 day sentence after which he was to begin serving a sentence of 11 months and 29 days for failure to appear and violation of probation. Polk County also had a hold on Hamilton for charges against him there.
Hamilton, 39 year old Jack Mullican, Jr. of Adcock Cemetery Road and 33 year old Bryon Ray Gibbs of Gin Alley, Alexandria all broke out of the jail annex through a door they jimmied open.
Mullican was captured the next morning, November 22, 2017 after being found in an underground water drain near Mapco Express in Smithville. He became trapped there after making his escape.
Gibbs was apprehended Saturday, November 25, 2017 thanks to an alert Alexandria Police Officer, Josh Arnold and a few citizen bystanders. After being confronted, Gibbs resisted and began fighting with Arnold. Citizens who witnessed the scene came to the aid of the officer to help subdue Gibbs. Deputies and detectives of the Sheriff’s Department also responded to provide assistance.
Gibbs was charged by Alexandria Police with resisting arrest and aggravated assault.
All three, Hamilton, Mullican, and Gibbs, were charged and later indicted for escape.
In July, Mullican entered a plea in criminal court to escape and in a separate case for aggravated burglary. He received a two year sentence for the escape and five years for the burglary to run consecutively for a total of seven years. He must serve two years at 30% for the escape but the remaining five years will be suspended to supervised probation. He was given jail credit of 259 days.
Gibbs also entered a plea in July to escape, aggravated assault (of an Alexandria Police Officer) and aggravated burglary (separate incident). He received a two year sentence for the escape to serve in the Tennessee Department of Correction. Gibbs also got a four year sentence in each of the other two cases on TDOC probation. The terms are to run consecutively. He was given jail credit from November 25, 2017 to July 17, 2018.