By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
It was an emotional, and happy, court day for Melissa Netherton, who entered into a guilty plea and a pretrial diversion.
Netherton, 42, was arrested by Barren County sheriff deputies in February along with Aaron Wright, 42, on Indian Mills Road in Park City. The pair had assaulted a deputy that was attempting to arrest Wright on an active bench warrant then fled the scene.
Wright was sentenced to 4 years on burglary, theft, criminal mischief, assault, and fleeing police.
At her Aug. 18 pretrial conference in Barren County Circuit Court, Netherton entered into a guilty plea. Her sentence was for two years, according to the plea deal, however the commonwealth agreed to allow her three year of supervised probation after which time, assuming she had no other offenses, her charges would go away.
“As I mentioned before, the commonwealth would agree not to sentence you at all at this point and put you on a pretrial diversion where you would be supervised by probation and parole for a period of three years,” Judge John Alexander said. “If you successfully complete that your charges will be dismissed…and it gets automatically expunged, too.”
“So you got a lot to work towards,” Alexander added.
