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Brookhaven man sentenced in Jones Co.
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| By THERESE APEL, DAILY LEADER Staff Writer |
July 24, 2009 |
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A Brookhaven man has been sentenced to serve 12 years following a habitual offender conviction in Jones County Circuit Court, and he still faces charges on another crime in Lincoln County, authorities said.
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James May, 31, was convicted in a 2007 burglary in Jones County. And based on some other crimes he committed in the 1990s, 18th Circuit Court District Attorney Tony Buckley told the Laurel Leader-Call that May will have to serve his full sentence as a habitual offender.
May was charged with sexual assault and burglary in May 2008 when he allegedly entered the home of an 83-year-old Brookhaven woman, who told police she found the man standing in the living room of her home in a neighborhood off North Jackson Street. She said he made a threatening statement before putting a knife to her throat and taking her into the bedroom and assaulting her.
Sheriff Steve Rushing said when May was jailed on his charges in Brookhaven, he waited until his bond had been paid by the bail bondsman, and then ran away without paying him.
"He wasn't charged with escaping because he was already out on bond," Rushing said. "He doesn't catch another charge for that, he was just charged on the assault."
From there, he disappeared until he was caught and jailed in Texas on another charge.
"That's where they picked him up after he ran off on the bail bondsman, I think he had another charge over there," Rushing said. "Then Jones (County) must have brought him back on their charges over there."
Rushing said the next step for Lincoln County is to get May back into the county to face charges in Lincoln County Circuit Court.
"We'll do it sometime as soon as the judges get back from break," Rushing said. "We'll need to give him his initial arraignment, and it's pretty much a matter of getting the paperwork done. It's just going to be a matter of getting him back over here for these charges."
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