By Gary Ogle
gogle@wbcowqel.com
Tuesday was a difficult day for those who were back in court as repeat felony offenders. Lengthy prison sentences were handed down to two defendants whose old cases were combined with new ones.
Twenty-one-year-old Dakota Craft was sentenced to prison for a total of four years and six months following his guilty plea to felony 4 aggravated assault and an admission to a community control violation in a 2014 case.
Craft was sentenced to four years in the 2014 case and six months in the new case and Judge Sean Leuthold ordered those sentences to run consecutive to one another.
In addition the old case carries with it three years of mandatory post-release control. The community control violation was an admission to allegation of unlawful sexual contact.
“We gave you the opportunity to do the right thing. You squandered the opportunity,” Leuthold told Craft from the bench. “You’re 21 years old . . . I would say it is time to straighten up.”
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Twenty-eight-year-old Jamie Cline’s sentence was only slightly less severe. Cline was sentenced to prison for a total of 36 months. His six-month sentence on a new charge of felony 5 drug possession was ordered to run concurrent with a 36-month sentence on a 2014 case for felony 3 drug possession when Cline admitted to violating probation in that case.
Leuthold noted for the record that although he did not originally sentence Cline in the 2014 case, Cline was the first person he granted judicial release to after he took the Common Pleas Court bench. Leuthold recalled the joy on Cline’s face shortly after getting that release.
“It (returning him to prison) brings me no pleasure, Mr. Cline,” the judge said. “You seem like a pretty good guy.”
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Two other people were formally sentenced and those sentencings went according to previously recommended agreements.
Trey Onie was sentenced to one year on community control and ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution. That restitution has already been paid. Onie previously pleaded guilty to eight counts of felony vandalism for his part in destroying mail boxes and road signs.
The judge warned Onie, “If you do something like this again I will send you to prison.”
Clayton Brewington was sentenced to five years on community control for felony 3 domestic violence when the victim withdrew her statement.
Brewington, who is subject to a 36-month prison sentence if he fails community control, must also undergo a drug and alcohol assessment and successfully complete any recommended treatment as part of his probation.