October 4, 2023
By: Dwayne Page
One of three people arrested in a drug bust less than a month ago by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department has already been sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court.
20-year-old Ja’merrin Jameze Turner of Lebanon entered a plea last Friday, September 29 by criminal information to possession with intent to sell or deliver a schedule V drug (Gabapentin). He received a 2-year Tennessee Department of Corrections sentence suspended to supervised probation with time served. He was fined $2,000 and given 21 days jail credit.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on September 7 a detective and other members of the sheriff’s department executed a search warrant at 200 the Loop Circle, Smithville. During the search, officers found 23 white pills believed to be Gabapentin, a small amount of a green leafy substance thought to be marijuana, numerous baggies, and other baggies with a crystal-like substance and powder residue, scales, pipes, syringes, and other drug paraphernalia.
Cases against two co-defendants with Turner, 27-year-old Zachary Jacob Poss of the Loop Circle, and 25-year-old Courtney Brooke Shrum of the Loop Circle are still pending in court.
38-year-old Jason Duane Madewell of Ferrell Road, Smithville entered a plea by criminal information to possession of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) over 0.5 grams for sale. He received an 8-year sentence to serve and was fined $2,000. The sentence is to run concurrently with a case against him in Warren County, He was given 206 days of jail credit.
Sheriff Ray said that on March 7 a deputy was on patrol when he spotted a man who appeared to have been intoxicated. He stopped the man, Madewell, at Mapco Express in Smithville and found him to be unsteady on his feet. Madewell was sweating profusely, and he couldn’t focus during conversation with the officer. When the deputy asked if he would consent to a body search, Madewell admitted to having methamphetamine in his left front pocket and said that he had consumed some meth three hours earlier. The meth found on him had container weight of 16.1 grams.
29-year-old Sonni Michael Fullilove of Keltonburg Road, Smithville entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) over 0.5 grams and received an 8-year TDOC sentence all suspended to supervised probation. He was fined $2,000 and given 34 days jail credit.