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Three sentenced after stolen truck gets stuck in mud
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Three trespassers, one of whom officers believed may have fired upon the landowner when he arrived to throw them off his property this summer, have all been sentenced on theft and drug charges.Among those getting sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley were David Matthew Hill, 32. He was ordered to serve 364 days of a 10-year sentence and pay $2,000 plus costs for grand theft, criminal impersonation, and initiating the process to manufacture meth.Vanessa Ray Lute, 33, was instructed to serve 180 days of an eight-year sentence and pay $2,000 plus costs for initiating the process to manufacture meth.Marlin Ray Pinkard, 33, was ordered to serve 180 days of an eight-year sentence and pay $2,000 plus costs for grand theft and initiating the process to manufacture meth.Their sentences come after they were caught trespassing on property off Lawson Mill Road. Deputies were sent to the location to check out a report of shots being fired.When deputy Brad Myers arrived around 5 a.m., he found the three sitting around a fire.