Parkersburg men receive suspended sentences
By JEFFREY SAULTONPARKERSBURG - Suspended sentences for probation were handed down Friday in Wood County Circuit Court for two Parkersburg men indicted by the January grand jury.
Christopher Venham, 23, and Justin Paul Thornton, 20, were named as codefendants in an indictment charging them with two counts of burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, petit larceny and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
In his plea agreement with the state, Venham pleaded guilty on April 22 to breaking without entering, a lesser included offense to burglary. He was sentenced by Judge Jeffrey Reed to one to 10 years suspended for two years probation.
Thornton pleaded guilty this spring to conspiracy to commit burglary and petit larceny. He was sentenced by Reed to one to five years in prison for the conspiracy and one year in the North Central Regional Jail for the petit larceny charge to be served first, suspended for two years probation.
In other hearings Friday:
- Gerrod Phillip Robey, 23, in custody at North Central Regional Jail, was in court for a probation revocation, which was continued to 2 p.m. Oct. 27. He was denied bond and was remanded to custody. Robey was indicted by the September 2006 grand jury on a malicious wounding charge and was sentenced in 2007 to one to five years in prison after a guilty plea. In June 2007, he was granted a reconsideration of his sentence and was placed on four years probation.
- Jeffrey Lynn Inghram, 53, 3050 Rosemar Road, Parkersburg, entered a plea agreement with the state to plead guilty to second-offense driving under the influence. He had been indicted by the May grand jury on a charge of third-offense driving under the influence. His sentencing was set for 9 a.m. Nov. 6 before Judge Robert Waters.
- Nikki Faye Sargent, also known as Nikki Secoy, 35, was admitted to the drug court program. On Wednesday, she was granted a reconsideration of her sentence of one to 10 years in prison with 15 days credit for time served for a forgery charge and one to 10 years for an uttering charge to be served consecutively and was released.
