TERRICA HENDRIX
Reporter
NASHVILLE – Several
guilty pleas were entered
in Howard County Circuit
Court last week.
The following pleas
were entered on Wed., Dec.
9 before Circuit Judge Tom
Cooper:
Brady O’Neal, 25, of
Umpire, entered a guilty
plea to terroristic threatening
first degree and was
sentenced to five years
on probation and ordered
to pay $1,000 fine, court
costs, DNA fee and attend
alcohol rehab courses.
Candice Blake, 36, of
Nashville, entered a guilty
plea to furnish, possessing,
using prohibited articles
and was sentenced to
eight years in the Arkansas
Department of Correction
(four years suspended).
Blake was ordered to pay
a drug assessment fee and
court costs. She was given
credit for 28 days of jail
time served.
Lawrence Swift Jr.,
36, of Nashville, entered a
guilty plea to an amended
charge of battery and was
ordered to serve one year
in the county jail. Swift
was sentenced to 15 years
in ADC for possession of
a scheduled II controlled
substance ( methamphetamine
and cocaine)
enhanced as habitual
offender and ordered to
pay court costs and a drug
assessment fee. The first
two sentences will run concurrently.
Swift was also
sentenced to five years
(suspended sentence) for a
separate count of possession
of a schedule II controlled
substance enhanced
as a habitual offender.
