Cocaine sales bring 8-year sentence in Circuit Court

* Kenneth Lynn Anderson, 48, 2224 St. John Ave., Apartment B, pleaded guilty to possessing more than half an ounce of marijuana with intent to sell. He was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $2,000.

* Patrick Depriest, 25, 1314 Woodlawn, Apartment B, pleaded guilty to selling more than half an ounce of marijuana. He was sentenced to two years in prison and given a suspended fine of $2,000. He is to serve the sentence concurrently with another sentence in Obion County.

* Shannon Lee Forsythe, 34, 556 N. Walker Lane, was granted pretrial diversion on three counts each of fraudulently obtaining TennCare benefits and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. She was placed on supervised probation for two years and ordered to pay $2,122 in court costs and $33.45 restitution to TennCare. She forfeited her TennCare benefits and was ordered to undergo random drug screens and to complete outpatient drug and alcohol counseling.

* Jeffery Jerone Gant, 42, 460 Fairbanks, pleaded guilty to felony failure to appear. An unrelated charge of attempted aggravated burglary was dismissed. He was sentenced to a year in prison.

* Tina J. Hendrix, 40, 1419 St. John Ave., Lot E, pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery and one count of felony failure to appear. Two additional charges of forgery were dismissed.

On both of the forgery charges, Hendrix was sentenced to concurrent four-year sentences.

On the failure to appear charge, she was sentenced to two years in prison, serving that term consecutively to the others.

* Jonathan L. Mathis, 27, 604 Revell Road, pleaded guilty to two charges of aggravated burglary and one charge each of theft of property in excess of $10,000 and theft of property in excess of $1,000.

In each of the burglary charges and the theft in excess of $10,000, he was sentenced to four years and six months in prison.

In the lesser theft charge, he was sentenced to four years in prison. The sentences are to be served concurrently with each other and with another sentence in Obion County.

He was accused of stealing a 47-inch LCD television, about 165 digital video disks, a .22-caliber pistol, a muzzleloader rifle, a camcorder, a Sentry safe and a Nintendo 64 and games from a home on Holly Springs Cemetery Road on Nov. 10.

He also was accused of stealing antique furniture, glassware, a Browning 12-gauge shotgun, a Savage .308-caliber rifle and other household goods from another home on Nov. 26.

* Winston Lewis Sharp Sr., 57, address unavailable, pleaded guilty to four counts of selling less than half a gram of cocaine. He was sentenced to eight years in prison on each count and will serve those terms concurrently with each other and with a previous sentence. He was fined $3,000 on each count with all of the fines being suspended.

* Dwayne Thomas, 44, of Dyersburg, pleaded guilty to facilitation of a sale of less than half a gram of cocaine. He was sentenced to three years in a community corrections program.

* Rashad Jawan Vaughn, 23, 1217 Hornbrook St., pleaded guilty to three counts of selling less than half a gram of cocaine. On each count, he was sentenced to eight months in jail followed by five years and four months in a community corrections program. The sentences are to be served concurrently. He also was fined $2,000 for each charge, with the fine suspended in two counts. He was ordered to pay a total of $460 restitution to the Dyer County Sheriff's Department's narcotics division.

* Larry Lee Willis, 41, 4200 Gum Flatt Road in Bells, pleaded guilty to theft of property in excess of $1,000. He was accused of stealing a 15-horsepower Craftsman riding lawn mower and a red utility trailer on Feb. 19, 2007. He was sentenced to four years in prison. An additional charge of failure to appear was not prosecuted.