A Starke County man was sentenced per the terms of a plea agreement in Starke Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon on two separate charges of possession of methamphetamine.
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Bethany Lawton was sentenced in Starke Circuit Court on Wednesday morning after pleading guilty in a plea agreement to several drug charges.
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A Plymouth man will serve time on home detention after pleading guilty in a plea agreement to an amended Level 5 Felony charge of battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
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A Walkerton man who admitted to dealing methamphetamine to undercover officers over the course of two consecutive days pleaded guilty to that charge in Starke Circuit Court Thursday morning.
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The man accused of killing 75-year-old Randall Bailey before leading police on a pursuit on Thanksgiving Day made his initial court appearance Wednesday. James Lee Campbell, 52, is charged with murder and resisting law enforcement, along with a firearm sentencing enhancement for the murder charge.
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A former Starke County resident pleaded guilty to a charge of maintaining a common nuisance in a hearing in Starke Circuit Court Thursday morning.
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Two defendants were sentenced by the Starke Circuit Court Magistrate this week.
Melissa Hansen pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the state to charges of Possession of Methamphetamine and Maintaining a Common Nuisance, both Class D felonies. Magistrate Jeanene Calabrese accepted the agreement and Hansen received a sentence of 14 months in the Department of Corrections with eight months suspended on both charges. Those sentences will run concurrently, or at the same time. She was permitted to serve that sentence on home detention through Starke County Community Corrections. She will also serve eight months on probation.
