INEZ — Judge Brett Butcher heard the following cases Sept. 30 in Martin District Court:
Joshua Baisden (arraignment) — Reckless driving; failure to illuminate head lamps; failure to or improper signal; inadequate silencer (muffler); intermediate licensing violations; no rear view mirror: Pleaded not guilty, pretrial conference 10/28/25 at 10 a.m.
Patrick Blackburn (arraignment) — Possession of marijuana: Pleaded guilty, $25 fine and court cost, $188, show cause 3/17/26.
William Chapman (motion hour-set aside BW) — Possession of marijuana: Pleaded not guilty, pretrial conference 10/28/25 at 10 a.m.
David Alan Comeau (arraignment) — No/expired Kentucky registration receipt; no/expired registration plates; improper display of registration plates; no tail lamps; rear license not illuminated: Pleaded not guilty, pretrial conference 10/28/25 at 10 a.m.
Damian R. Evans (arraignment) — Improper registration; no operator’s/moped license; no/expired registration plates; failure of non-owner operator to maintain required insurance, second or greater: Dismissed.
Deborah R. Evans (arraignment) — No operator’s/moped license: Failure to appear.
Steven Farnham (arraignment) — No tail lamps; no/expired registration plates; no/expired Kentucky registration receipt; failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, first; operating on suspended/revoked operator’s license; inadequate silencer (muffler): Failure to appear.
Jamie N. Hall (arraignment) — No/expired Kentucky registration receipt; failure of non-owner operator to maintain required insurance, first; improper registration: Failure to appear.
Kristin Hinkle (arraignment) — No/expired registration plates; no/expired Kentucky registration receipt; failure to produce insurance card: Dismissed, proof shown.
Martin V. Howell (motion hour-set aside Failure to appear) — Failure to wear seat belt; failure to produce insurance card; license to be in possession: Dismissed.
Lawrence Tyler McCoy (review) — 1. Assault, fourth degree (domestic violence), minor injury; disorderly conduct, second degree: Dismissed.
William McCoy (arraignment) — No operator’s/moped license: Dismissed with warning.
Scottie McKenzie (arraignment) — Possession of controlled substance, first degree, first offense (methamphetamine); possession of controlled substance, first degree, first offense (drug unspecified): Preliminary hearing 10/21/25 at 10:30 a.m.
Rodrick Catlin Mollette (arraignment) — Drug paraphernalia-buy/possession; public intoxication of controlled substance (excludes alcohol): Reset 10/14/25 at 9 a.m., bond amended to unsecured.
Zachary Allen Palmer (arraignment) — Failure to produce insurance card; license to be in possession; no/expired other state registration receipt or plates; inadequate silencer (muffler): Failure to appear.
Kayla Renea Perry (arraignment) — Failure to wear seat belt: Dismissed with warning.
Christopher A. Scott (arraignment) — Theft by unlawful taking or disposition (shoplifting): Two-year diversion, stay out of Miner’s Mart, no new violation.
James Darrell Scott (arraignment) — 1. No operator’s/moped license; disregarding stop sign: Six-month diversion.
Sidney Nicole Webb (arraignment) — Indecent exposure, second degree: Reset 10/28/25 at 9 a.m.
Austin T. Mullett (arraignment) — No operator’s/moped license: Failure to appear.
Helen Marie Bowens (contempt hearing) — 1. Alcohol intoxication in a public place, first and second offense; 2. Disorderly conduct, second degree: 1. Dismissed; 2. Pleaded guilty, reset 10/14/25 at 9:30 a.m.
Ricky Gene Bragg, II (pretrial conference) — Assault, fourth degree (domestic violence), minor injury: Thirty days probated, no new violation of domestic violence or law, waived court cost, credit four days served.
Kenneth Delong (pretrial conference) — Operating on suspended/revoked operator’s license; no operator’s/moped license; license to be in possession; operating vehicle with expired operator’s license: Reset 1/20/26 at 10 a.m.
William M. Hyden (pretrial conference) — Operating on suspended/revoked operator’s license; license to be in possession; failure to wear seat belts: Reset pretrial conference 11/25/25 at 10 a.m.
Mary S. Setser (review) — Criminal trespassing, second degree; criminal littering; disorderly conduct, second degree; public intoxication of controlled substance (excludes alcohol): Pleaded guilty; left treatment, contempt hearing 10/14/25 at 10:30 a.m.
Mary Ann Wells (pretrial conference) — 1. Operating on suspended/revoked operator’s; 2. Failure to surrender revoked operator’s; 3. Failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, first; 4. Failure to produce insurance card; 5. Improper display of registration plates; 6. No/expired Kentucky registration receipt; 7. No/expired registration plates: 1-2. Reset 11/25/25 at 10 a.m.; 3-7. Dismissed.
Douglas A. Thompson (review) — Theft of identify of another without consent: Paid in full, removed from docket, released from custody 9/30/25.
Kassandra Danielle Hamilton (preliminary hearing) — Criminal mischief, first degree, tampering with key infrastructure assets; trespass of key infrastructure assets, first offense: Probable cause, sent to grand jury.
Sherman J. Vance III (preliminary hearing) — Public intoxication of controlled substance (excludes alcohol); possession of marijuana; possession of controlled substance, first degree, first offense (methamphetamine); possession of controlled substance, first degree, first offense (drug unspecified); drug paraphernalia-buy/possession; possession of controlled substance, first degree (fentanyl): Rocket Docket. Release to Frontier representative when bed becomes available.
Brittany Gilmore (change of plea) — 1. Possession of controlled substance, first degree, first offense (methamphetamine); 2. Drug paraphernalia-buy/possession; 3. Operating on suspended/revoked operator’s license; 4. Failure to produce insurance card: 1. Two years; 2. Twelve months; 3. Ninety days; 4. Dismissed. Sentences diverted for two years, complete any course of substance abuse treatment recommended by DPP, sentencing 11/6/25 at 10 a.m.
Rita Lynn Maynard (change of plea) — 1. Possession of controlled substance, first degree, first offense (methamphetamine); 2. Drug paraphernalia-buy/possession: 1. Two years; 2. Dismissed. Sentence diverted for two years, commit no further violation of law.
Justin Fletcher (motion hour-void pretrial diversion) — Set for hearing 10/16/25 at 10 a.m.
Gerald Harden (motion hour-redocket) — Complicity burglary, second degree; complicity criminal mischief, third degree: Pretrial today.
John Allen (other hearing) — Complicity to receiving stolen property $1,000-$10,000: Hearing 10/16/25 at 10 a.m.
Robert Drenning (other hearing-motion to revoke probation) — Preliminary hearing 10/16/25 at 10 a.m.
Donald R. Perkins (other hearing) — No action.
Fred T. Daniels (probation revocation hearing) — Probation revoked, defendant’s witnesses Fred Daniels Jr., Rosie Holbrook; Commonwealth witnesses Dallas Ward, Tim Maynard.
Rodrick C. Mollette (probation revocation hearing) — Sanction of 90 days for violation, after 90 days to return to DPP, add extra two years of probation, defendant witness Rodrick Mollette, Commonwealth witness Dallas Ward.
Donald Perkins (sentencing) — 1. Possession of controlled substance, first degree, first offense (methamphetamine); 2. Possession of controlled substance; 3. No motorcycle operator’s license; 4. No/expired registration plates; 5. No/expired Kentucky registration receipt; 6. Failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, first: 1. Two years; 2. Twelve months; 3. $25 fine; 4. $25 fine; 5. $25 fine; 6. Ninety days. Probation for two years, complete six months of IOP through Horizon.
John Allen (arraignment) — Bail jumping, first degree: Pleaded not guilty, pretrial 11/6/25 at 11 a.m., bond continued as previously set.
Robert Drenning (arraignment) — Bail jumping, first degree: Pleaded not guilty, pretrial 11/6/25 at 11 a.m., bond continued as previously set.
Bryon H. Marcum (arraignment) — Wanton endangerment, first degree; assault, fourth degree (minor injury): Pleaded not guilty, pretrial 12/4/25 at 11 a.m., bond $5,000, surety bond, no unlawful contact with victim.
Bryon How Marcum (motion hour-dismiss) — Sustained.
Judy Faye Pauley (motion hour-reduce bond) — $25,000 (10%).