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Baucom gets two years for fleeing
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A man who tried to pass a counterfeit $100 bill and then fled from lawmen has been sentenced to two years in prison.The man, Terry Lee Baucom Jr., 29, entered a no-contest plea before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to charges of evading arrest and felony reckless endangerment. He was ordered to serve two years in the state penitentiary, a sentence that will be served in addition to time he owes for a crime in Rutherford County.His sentence comes after he and another man allegedly tried to pass a possibly counterfeit $100 bill at Scot Market. The clerk gave officers a description of the men and police were soon on their tail, finding them driving nearby on Chancery Street.