A Jefferson County judge revoked a Fenton-area man’s probation and ordered the man to serve a five-year prison sentence. The man had been arrested for possession of a controlled substance while on probation for felony forgery, according to court documents.
Joshua Glen Minard, 38, who lives in the Jefferson County portion of Fenton, on March 4 pleaded guilty to felony possession of a controlled substance and was ordered by Jefferson County Div. 1 Circuit Judge Joseph Rathert to serve a 180-day jail sentence. On the same day, Rathert also revoked Minard’s probation that he received after pleading guilty to felony forgery in September 2023, court records show.
The prison and jail sentences will be served concurrently, or at the same time, court documents said.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Justin Owens prosecuted the cases.
Minard was arrested in February 2024 after a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputy found a substance that tested positive as methamphetamine in a Ford pickup that Minard was in that was stopped on Paramount Court in the Fenton area, according to the case’s probable-cause statement.
Two other people were in the pickup, and at least one other person was taken to the Jefferson County Jail in Hillsboro along with Minard. Three days after the arrests, one of the pickup’s occupants called Minard from jail, the report said.
The person reportedly told Minard that investigators did not believe the meth didn’t belong to Minard, despite that person trying to claim ownership. Minard said that he should have done something different but could not move fast enough because the deputy approached the pickup too quickly, according to the report.
Minard previously was arrested in 2022 after he used a check from Allied Transportation Inc. to fraudulently withdraw $2,750 from the company’s account at Lindell Bank, 23 Dillon Plaza, in High Ridge. The victim reported the fraud on March 31, 2022, and Minard was identified through surveillance video on April 8, 2022, as the man who used the check, according to the case’s probable-cause statement.
Minard pleaded guilty to the felony forgery charge on Sept. 5, 2023, but Rathert, who also was the judge for that case, suspended the execution of the sentenced and placed Minard on five years’ probation, court documents show.