A man who was shot after drawing a weapon on two officers of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department over four years ago was sentenced Tuesday in DeKalb County Criminal Court.
58 year old Randy Gerald Petty entered a plea to two counts of attempted aggravated assault and is facing a three year sentence in each case to run consecutively for a total of six years. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for September 11 to determine how Petty will serve the six year sentence.
Petty was named in a sealed indictment by the DeKalb County Grand Jury in April, 2014 charging him with the more serious offenses of two counts of attempted first degree murder. He was arrested without incident by agents of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
“ On May 23, 2013, Deputies (at the time) Jeremy Taylor and Erik Russell responded to a 911 call of shots being fired at 255 Petty Road in Smithville. There, while standing at the rear of Deputy Taylor’s vehicle, Deputy Russell saw and heard something off to his side. Using his flashlight, Russell spotted Randy Petty pointing a scoped rifle at the two deputies. Both of them drew their weapons and fired, striking Petty several times in his extremities. He later recovered from his wounds.
At the request of the District Attorney General at the time (Randy York), the TBI began investigating the case on May 23, 2013.
The two count indictment against Petty stated that “On or about May 23, 2013, Petty intentionally and with premeditation did attempt to kill Jeremy Taylor and Erik Russell, constituting the offense of attempted murder in the first degree.
36 year old Steven Levan Gandy, Jr. entered a plea by criminal information to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He received a four year TDOC sentence to serve. The term is to run concurrently with another case against him. His probation in a previous case was revoked. Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Wednesday, March 15 a detective and deputy went to Old West Point Road to do a probation search on Gandy. During a search they found .01 gram of meth in the house and .03 grams of meth in a barn on the property that field tested positive. The officers also found a 45 caliber pistol in the home and a 22 caliber rifle in the barn. Gandy was convicted in 2013 of initiation of a process to manufacture meth.
54 year old Troy Daniel Klingbeil entered a plea by criminal information to violation of the sex offender registry and received a two year TDOC sentence to serve 90 days in the DeKalb County Jail. The term is to run consecutive to a Wilson County case against him. He was given jail credit of 61 days. On April 19, Kingbeil did unlawfully and knowingly fail to timely disclose required information and or timely cause to be delivered the required registration/monitoring forms to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, pursuant to the Sexual Offender Registration and Monitoring Act.
54 year old Miriam Juanice Ellis of Murfreesboro entered a plea by criminal information to reckless endangerment and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days all suspended to supervised probation. The sentence is to run concurrently with her probation in a Rutherford County case.
Sheriff Ray said that on Thursday, October 6, 2016 a deputy responded to the area of Old Snow Hill Road in reference to a vehicle which had been on private property but had left. The officer spotted the vehicle setting partly in the roadway on Old Snow Hill Road. The driver, Ellis, had an odor of an alcoholic beverage on her person. Her eyes were bloodshot and her speech was slurred. Ellis submitted to but performed poorly on field sobriety tasks. She initially agreed but then refused to submit to a blood test.
23 year old Javier Ordaz Desirena entered a plea by criminal information to reckless endangerment and violation of the implied consent law and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days all suspended to CPS probation. He will lose is driver license for one year. Desirena was arrested on Saturday, February 4 for DUI and was cited for speeding, driver’s license violation, registration violation, financial responsibility and implied consent. Desirena was stopped for a traffic violation and the officer detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from his breath. His speech was slurred and his eyes were red and blood shot. Desirena was unable to perform standardized field sobriety tasks successfully and he refused to give blood. All the other charges against him were dropped under this plea agreement.
55 year old Patricia Harris entered a plea to reckless endangerment by criminal information and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days on probation. Harris was charged on April 28, 2016 for unlawfully and recklessly engaging in conduct which placed or may have placed another person, to wit: innocent motorists and/or by-standers in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.
40 year old Juan Carlos Sosa Salazar entered a plea by criminal information to reckless endangerment and received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days all suspended to CPS probation. All other charges against him in his case were dropped. Salazar was charged on December 2, 2016 for unlawfully and recklessly engaging in conduct which placed or might have placed innocent motorists and/or by-standers in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.
32 year old Nicholas Cody Walls entered a plea by criminal information to reckless endangerment and violation of the implied consent law. He received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days all suspended to CPS probation and he will lose his driver license for one year. All other charges against him in this case were dropped. He was charged on December 4, 2016 for unlawfully and recklessly engaging in conduct which placed or might have placed innocent motorists and/or by-standers in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. He also refused to submit to a blood test
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