Cigarette theft brings 8-year sentence

* Dusty B. Haynes, 28, 312 S. Hazel in Halls, was given an effective eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to burglary and theft of property less than $500. He was accused of entering the Murphy USA building on Dec. 18 and stealing 12 cartons of cigarettes, valued at $460. He received an eight-year sentence for the burglary and a concurrent 11-month, 29-day sentence for the theft. He was ordered to pay $480.48 restitution to Murphy USA.

* Eddie Lee Hudson, 45, 134 Chestnut St. in Marion, Ark., pleaded guilty to three counts of forgery. Two additional counts of forgery were dismissed. He was sentenced to two years in prison for each count and will serve those sentences concurrently with each other and with prior sentences in Tennessee and Missouri. He also was ordered to pay $771.32 in restitution to the Plaza Food Center.

* James Victor Lemons, 45, 865 Viar Road, pleaded guilty to kidnapping. Additional charges of domestic assault, violation of an order of protection and felony failure to appear were dismissed.

On the kidnapping charge, Lemons was sentenced to six years in prison with all but six months suspended. He was placed on probation for five and a half years.

* Wilmon "Sonny" Moses III, 33, Highway 79 in Ridgley, pleaded guilty Aug. 28 to conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. He was accused of conspiring with two other individuals to rob in the Sunrise Inn; the man was killed during the robbery. Moses was sentenced Sept. 29 to four years in prison.

* William Dale Vaughn, 27, 117 Dixie St., pleaded guilty to felony failure to appear. He was sentenced to two years in prison and will serve that time consecutively to a prior drug charge.

* Ora Weathersby, 44, 1175 S. Main, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. The sentence was suspended to six months in jail, followed by four years of probation. An additional charge of public intoxication was dismissed.

* Justin Lamar Wesley, 20, 216 N. Grayson in Newbern, received an effective four-year sentence after pleading guilty to a number of charges.

Wesley pleaded guilty to two counts of selling less than half a gram of cocaine. He was sentenced to three years in prison on each count. The sentences are to be served concurrently with each other and with two prior sentences but consecutively with a third sentence. He was fined $2,000 in each count, but the fine was suspended in one of the counts.

He pleaded guilty to selling a counterfeit controlled substance and was sentenced to two years in prison.

He pleaded guilty to theft of property in excess of $1,000. A related charge of aggravated burglary was dismissed. He was accused of breaking into a Newbern home on April 21, 2008, and taking a jewelry box filled with jewelry, a computer, a television, a lawn mower, a baby stroller, a digital camera and baby clothes. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

He pleaded guilty to failure to appear and was sentenced to a year in prison.

All but the last sentence are to be served concurrently; the last sentence is to be served consecutively.

* Jasmine S. Williams, 21, 1106 Tucker Circle, was granted pretrial diversion on a charge of filing a false police report. She was placed on supervised probation for two years and ordered to pay $574.50 in court costs and a $45 monthly supervision fee.