Shawn Westley Kingery, 32, of Dittmer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison following felony drug trafficking, burglary, unlawful use of a weapon and driving while intoxicated charges and probation violations, according to court documents.
In June 2012, law enforcement officials from the Jefferson County Municipal Enforcement Group Drug Task Force went to a home in the 6600 block of Bandstand Lane in Cedar Hill, where Kingery was at, and inside a shed found numerous items commonly used to make methamphetamine, including drain cleaner, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, a jar with a residue on it that tested positive for meth, a plastic bottle filled with an acid, jars and plastic bottles filled with unknown chemicals, coffee filters, tubing and funnels, the probable-cause statement said.
Christina Canada, who owned the home, also was there when authorities showed up, and she told them that she had accompanied Kingery to a local store to buy items to make meth, including pseudoephedrine, ice packs and batteries, and then they set up a meth lab at another home, until one of Kingery’s family members saw what was happening and kicked them out, so then the lab was set up in her shed, the report said.
Kingery pleaded guilty to second-degree drug trafficking charges and in July 2013, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but in January 2014, after he completed a treatment program, he was released, the sentence was suspended and Kingery got five year’s probation, court papers show.
Then, he violated the probation and in August 2014, he went to prison again, but was released in December 2014 after completing a 120-day treatment program, according to the report.
On July 7, after Kingery violated his probation again, Jefferson County Div. 4 Circuit Judge Mark T. Stoll executed the 10-year sentence.
Stoll also executed another 10-year term Kingery previously was sentenced to for first-degree burglary and a four-year term for unlawful use of a weapon tied to a March 2010 incident, when he forced entry into a home in the 8400 block of Forest Hills Park Drive in Dittmer where a woman and her daughter were asleep inside and woke the woman, held a razor blade to her throat and threatened to hurt her, the probable-cause statement said.
In addition, Stoll executed a seven-year term Kingery previously had received for a DWI stemming from a May 2012 incident in Jefferson County, his fourth DWI, court records show.
Kingery was on probation for all those offenses.
The four prison terms Kingery received July 7 terms are to be served concurrently, or at the same time.
Kingery also was sentenced on July 13 to two three-year terms for driving with a revoked license connected to incidents in April 2014 and May 2014 in Jefferson County, and those terms also are to be served concurrent with the others, according to court records.
Canada also pleaded guilty to second-degree drug trafficking tied to the June 2012 incident, and in March 2014, she was sentenced to seven years in prison, but the sentence was suspended and she got five years’ probation.
Kingery currently is in the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre.