Man gets probation for filthy home

MAN GETS PROBATION FOR FILTHY HOME

A Cape Girardeau man received five years probation on a suspended imposition of sentence for keeping his house in filthy conditions.

Cedric C. Moore, 46, of 215 Pearl St., had pleaded guilty to felony child endangerment and was sentenced Monday by Circuit Judge Benjamin Lewis.

Moore is accused of keeping up a house that his six children lived in littered with trash and human feces.

When social workers and police visited the Pearl Street home in September, they found large quantities of trash, broken furniture, mouse droppings near a bare mattress and a bucket used as a toilet.

A co-defendant in the case, Karen J. Clark, 41, had lived with Moore at the home and also received five years probation.

FIVE YEARS FOR DRUG DEALER

A five-year prison sentence was handed down Monday for a 24-year-old man accused of selling drugs.

Darrell D. Wiseman, 24, of 927 Jefferson Ave., pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and received the sentence from Circuit Court Judge Benjamin Lewis on one count of drug trafficking. He could have received up to 15 years imprisonment.

Wiseman was one of six arrested and charged in a drug bust last September at his home.

During the sentencing hearing, Wiseman admitted to possessing two grams of cocaine base.

PROBATION FOR WOMAN

A Jackson woman caught in a home with 104 grams of marijuana pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.

Donnie Sanford, 29, of 712 August St. in Jackson, was arrested Feb. 15 by Jackson police who were looking for a witness in connection to a Cape Girardeau shooting.

The officers knocked on the home of a co-defendant, Thomas Koehler, 32, of 723 August St. When Koehler opened the door, officers smelled burnt marijuana.

After obtaining a search warrant, officers later found 104 grams of marijuana, measuring scales and rolling papers in the home, a probable cause statement said.

Sanford was originally also charged with possession of a controlled substance and unlawful transaction with a child, but those charges were dropped in exchange for the guilty plea, Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle said.

Following the guilty plea, Circuit Judge Benjamin Lewis sentenced Sanford to two years probation on a suspended imposition of sentence.

Koehler, 32, pleaded guilty March 6 to possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was sentenced to six months in the county jail, according to Swingle.

MARSHALL

A man accused of attempting to drive his truck drunk into his grandmother's Jackson home was sentenced to probation and drug rehabilitation.

Circuit Court Judge Benjamin Lewis sentenced Erik M. Marshall, 27, of 688 Bella Vista Drive, to a seven-year suspended execution sentence and placed him on five years supervised probation for domestic assault.

He was also sentenced to 152 days in jail for driving while intoxicated. Marshall would get credit for time served and would be released from jail on April 10, but he must check into a drug treatment facility on April 11, the judge ruled.

Apparently angry at his 87-year-old grandmother for not letting him into her home at 676 Bella Vista Drive, Marshall drove his truck through a neighbor's yard, jumped a retaining wall, crossed over his grandmother's driveway and stopped in her front yard.

Before getting into the vehicle, Marshall had struck another relative who had come to help their grandmother's aide.

Among the probation conditions, Marshall is not allowed to go onto his grandmother's property or have contact with the relative he struck.

Lewis stressed that Marshall get the treatment he needed for his addictions, warning that if not he could face prison time.