Several Appear in Criminal Court for Sentencing

Several people were sentenced by Judge David Patterson under negotiated settlements in DeKalb County Criminal Court on Monday.
23 year old Travis Tramel pleaded guilty to failure to appear and received six months on supervised probation to run consecutive to any other sentence against him.
31 year old Andy Certain pleaded guilty to simple possession and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days to serve. The fine was waived. The case is to run concurrent with a violation of probation against him. He was given credit for 112 days of jail time served.
24 year old David M. Caldwell, charged with theft over $1,000, was granted judicial diversion for a period of three years. He will be on supervised probation and must perform 100 hours of community service work. He must also make restitution of $1,500 jointly and severally with the co-defendants in the case.
24 year old Ashley Nicole Owen pleaded guilty to theft over $1,000 and was given a two year sentence all suspended to TDOC supervised probation. She must pay restitution of $1,956 to the victim and perform 100 hours of community service work. She was given five days of jail credit. Forgery and Criminal Impersonation charges against her were dismissed.
43 year old Jeffery Ponder pleaded guilty to simple possession and received six months to serve day for day. His fine was waived. The sentence is to run consecutive to any other sentence against him. He was given jail credit of 128 days.
26 year old Elizabeth Chalfant pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery and received a two year sentence in each case, all suspended. The cases are to run concurrently but consecutive to other cases against her. She will be on probation and must make restitution. She was given jail credit of 103 days.
37 year old Lois McCloud pleaded by information to possession of drug paraphernalia. She received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days, all suspended to time served. The case is to run concurrent with another sentence against her in Putnam County. She was given jail credit of 11 days.
20 year old Michael D. Dirden, charged with filing a false report and theft over $1,000, was granted judicial diversion for a period of three years. He will be on probation and must perform 100 hours of community service work. He must also make restitution of $2,067. Dirden was given jail credit of 13 days.
19 year old Anthony Tramel, charged with aggravated burglary and theft over $1,000, was granted judicial diversion for a period of four years. He must make restitution of $1,500 and perform 100 hours of community service work.