COLTON HOVEY FOUND GUILTY OF STEALING AND TRESPASS
OZARK, MO – The Christian County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announces today that
Colton Hovey, dob: 3/31/1995 of Ozark, Missouri was found guilty of both counts: stealing and trespass, after a jury trial in front of the Honorable Judge Doug Bacon on March 24, 2016.
The jury deliberated approximately 25 minutes before reaching its verdict. Hovey was found guilty for an incident that occurred on December 26,2014 in the W. McGuffey and N. 10th Street area in Ozark, Missouri.
Evidence adduced at trial included that the defendant was observed taking mail out of mailboxes. When law enforcement arrived, the defendant hid behind a tree and then ran. The defendant was observed by an officer hopping over a fence from the backyard of a residence. Officers found mail to a resident in the area that had fallen out of the defendant’s jacket.
Formal sentencing is set for May 4,2016. The jury recommended a punishment of six (6)
months in the Christian County Jail and a fine on the stealing count and a fine on the trespass count.
FOUR CONSECUTIVE LIFE SENTENCES FOR BRIAN WILLIAMS
OZARK, MO – The Christian County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced that on March, 23, 2016, BRIAN DANE WILLIAMS – DOB: 8-1-1989 formerly of Sparta, MO, appeared in front of Special Judge Calvin Holden and pleaded guilty as a prior and persistent felony offender to four counts of murder in the first degree, four counts of armed criminal action, one count of tampering with a motor vehicle and one count of stealing a firearm. Pursuant to the terms of a plea agreement, Williams was sentenced to a life sentence without the possibility of probation or parole in the Missouri Department of Corrections on each of the charges of murder in the first degree, five (5) years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for each of the armed criminal action charges, fifteen (15) years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for the tampering with a motor vehicle charge and fifteen (15) years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for the stealing a firearm charge. The four life sentences run consecutively for a total sentence of four (4) consecutive life sentences without the possibility of probation or parole. The other counts are to be served concurrently.