Baker County Court Cases

Baker County Court Cases

By LYNSIE BREAUX

While the second week of the month is reserved for felony trials the first trial of the week pled out before facing the jury.

Randall Dwayne Combs, 27, was set for trial for lewd or lascivious molestation of a child between 12- and 16-years-old, burglary with battery and burglary.

According to court documents, had he gone to trial he could have been sentenced to life in prison.

He accepted a plea deal in which he was sentenced to five years in prison for a single count of burglary with battery.

The police report states that Combs knocked on a door at the house of the victim. She answered the door and informed Combs that the person for whom he was asking did not live at that house.

After closing the door, the victim reported that Combs continued knocking on the door.

Tired of hearing him knock, the victim once again opened the door at which time Combs touched the victim in an inappropriate manner.

The victim reported that she once again closed the door pinching Combs' arm between the door and the frame.

During the previous felony court session Kenneth E. Yarbrough, 59, pled guilty to a single count of sexual battery on a child between 12- and 16-years old.

Based on his plea agreement, Yarbrough will serve the next eight years in prison and then the rest of his life he will be on sex offender probation.

Yarbrough was convicted of molesting a family member while she spent the night at this house. During the course of the investigation, sheriff's investigators found allegations that Yarbrough had also molested other females who had not reported the crimes.

Sammie Ortega Evans, 24, received five years in prison on a count of aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude police.

According to the police report, Evans was pulled over after repeatedly leaving the road in his vehicle.

When the deputy asked him to turn off his car, Evans instead put the car in drive and took off dragging the deputy for a short distance.

He was able to leave at a high rate of speed and made it all the way down U.S. 90 from Lowder to the east end of the Little St. Mary's River bridge before his car broke down.

Evans and the other two occupants of the car ran from the vehicle but were quickly discovered by the deputy hiding in the woods on the north side of U.S. 90.

And Antonio Darnell Goodman, 21, proved that high school pranks can go wrong, terribly wrong.

Goodman admitted to taking part in what he and other termed a "graduation prank" during the 2006 ceremony at Baker County High School.

The accused and several others broke into the agriculture building at the high school and stole several chickens and rabbits.

They then broke into the school itself and let the animals loose in several of the school hallways. They also broke into a shed in the athletic complex and stole several items from that department.

Following the prank, everyone involved in the "prank" was put into a pre-trial intervention program which would have resulted in no convictions on their records.

Goodman was violated in his probation for failing several of the conditions of his probation. He neglected to pay the $10 cost of probation, he failed to keep a job despite being warned multiple times and he also failed to maintain a "C" average in school. He never registered for classes at FCCJ.

Goodman will be spending the next year and a day in prison due to his prank