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Running doesn't pay off
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A run from authorities will cost a local man 150 days in jail after he left his driver license in his vehicle when he bolted from his car.The defendant, Joseph Adam Ashmore, 30, entered guilty pleas before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to charges of evading arrest, theft and vandalism and was directed to serve 150 days of a two-year sentence. He must also make $936 restitution.He also entered a guilty plea to helping steal gas from a church van outside Morrison Church of Christ, the vehicle’s gas tank ruptured by the men who were stealing the fuel. The suspects were caught on surveillance video.