July 7, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
A McMinnville man who broke into a car two years ago was sentenced for the crime last month in DeKalb County Criminal Court.
37-year-old Danny Ray Prater entered a plea to auto burglary and theft over $1,000 and received a sentence of two years all suspended to probation. The sentences are to run consecutive for a total of four years. Prater was given jail credit from November 4, 2021 to June 21,2022.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on May 31, 2020 Prater broke into a 1970 Chevy Impala at property on East Broad Street, Smithville tampering with the ignition and causing other damage totaling $700 (damage).
Meanwhile 45-year-old Flesha Gale Smith entered a plea to possession of a schedule II drug and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days on supervised probation. She was fined $750.
32-year-old James Arnold John McKeown, Jr. entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) over 0.5 grams and received an 8-year TDOC sentence suspended to supervised probation. He was fined $2,000.
27-year-old James Dillan Matthews entered a plea to theft under $1,000 and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days suspended to supervised probation with credit for 118 days served.
52-year-old Robert Roy Atnip, Jr. entered a plea by criminal information to reckless endangerment and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days to serve to run concurrently with another sentence. He was given jail credit from July 27, 2022 to June 21, 2022.
29-year-old Christopher Michael Rhoads entered a plea by criminal information to reckless driving facing a six-month sentence but he has applied for pretrial diversion.