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Show Sixth District Court Actions PANGUITCH Judge David L. Mower presided over Sixth Judicial Judi-cial District Court in Panguitch, Thurs. Mar. 4. First on the docket was Timothy Timo-thy ITimx K. McKinlay, 43, formerly for-merly of Bryce Canyon but residing in St. George. McKinlay had earlier been arrested ar-rested and charged with four counts dating back to Nov. 97 and Mar. 98 while employed at Pink Cliffs Motel. The initial charges included theft, a second degree felony of $5,470 cash; theft, a third degree felony, $1,000 cash proceeds from the sale of numerous items; criminal crimi-nal conspiracy, a third degree felony and criminal conspiracy, a class A misdemeanor. He was making his initial appearance in court without representation. McKinlay had worked out a plea bargain with Prosecutor Wallace Lee wherein he pled guilty to the second charge, a third degree felony with all other charges being dismissed. dis-missed. He was referred to Adult Probation and Parole (AP&P) for a pre-sentence report. The case was continued until Apr. 29 for sentencing. sentenc-ing. Olin Richard Powers, 37, of Or-derville Or-derville was in court for an initial appearance. He was charged with three counts dating back to July 1998 including aggravated assault, a third degree felony; intoxication, a class C misdemeanor and disorderly conduct, an infraction, when he ' allegedly threatened two individuals while intoxicated. Powers worked out a pica agreement with Attorney Wallace Lee wherein he pled guilty to a single count of assault, a class B misdemeanor and all other charges were dismissed. He was fined $500 and given six months unsupervised probation by Judge Mowers. Powers Pow-ers was given 90 days in which to (See COURT On Page 6-A) -Court From Front Page pay the fine and ordered to have no contact with his victims. Robert L. Simpson, 34, of -Salina was before the court for an initial appearance on drug-related charges dating back to an incident -, on Mar. 30, 1998. He was charged v with one count of possession of a ' .."controlled substance (methamphe- lamine), a second degree felony and one count of possession of drug - paraphernalia, a class B misde- meanor. - Simpson was represented by At- " torney Lawrence Hunt from Rich-: Rich-: field: A plea bargain had been ar- - . - ranged where Simpson pled guilty to a single count of possession, a third degree felony and all other charges were dismissed. Judge Mower ordered 10 days in jail, either served on weekend or consecutively, to be completed in 60 days. He placed Simpson on . probation for 24 months through " - AP&P and fined him $1700 to be paid monthly at the rate of $100. Three companion cases brought from the Division of Wildlife Re-- Re-- sources were before the court for . , initial appearances on a case back in . Oct. 1998. Jackelyn Marie Sweat, 22, of Murray was before the court for an initial appearance on a single count of wanton destruction of protected wildlife, a deer out of season, which ; is a class A misdemeanor. - '-' Chad Michael Miller, 22, also " of JMurray, was making an initial r- appearance on two charges in the same case, one count of aiding and assisting wanton destruction of protected wildlife (a deer out of season), sea-son), a class A misdemeanor and ... failure to tag big game (deer), a class B misdemeanor. Mickey Sweat, 52, of Salt Lake City was charged with one count of aiding and assisting wanton destruction destruc-tion of protected wildlife (a deer out of season), a class A misdemeanor and one count of aiding and assist--. ing failure-to tag big game (deer), a class B misdemeanor. .. The three represented themselves were found guilty of count one and sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $4,625. All jail time and fines were suspended on that count.. Additionally they were sentenced to - r six months in jail and fined $1850 -'. on count two. All jail time was suspended but each was ordered to ' pay $500 in fines, serve one year bench probation, make restitution " for the deer and pay DWR $475 if they want the weapon returned. Rachael Edmiston, 22, Pan-guitch Pan-guitch was in court for an arraignment arraign-ment on three counts of supplying alcohol to minors, class A misdemeanors. misde-meanors. She pled not guilty to the charges and requested a non-jury trial. A trial date of June 10 was set. |
