The third of four Vicksburg defendants nabbed in a methamphetamine bust Dec. 7, 2007, was sentenced this week in Warren County Circuit Court.

Christopher Jones, 35, 6223 Common Circle, will serve one year and one day in prison following his guilty plea before Circuit Court Judge Isadore Patrick Monday.

Jones admitted possession of crystal meth and was handed a six-year sentence with five years suspended. He will be on probation for five years after his release, was assessed $5,622.50 in fines and court costs and ordered to complete drug and alcohol counseling.

A second charge of possession of precursor chemicals was not prosecuted.

A Warren County jury found a fellow defendant in the case, James Dudley Maynord, 35, guilty in September of possession of meth and possession of precursors, and he was sentenced by Patrick Oct. 2 to a net of 10 years in prison plus $20,000 in fines.

“Dudley Maynord was sentenced by the court after a trial and not upon the recommendation of our office,” District Attorney Ricky Smith said regarding the differences in the sentences. “Generally when a defendant goes to trail, we leave it to the discretion of the judge or ask for the maximum sentence.”

Friends and family of the defendant also are allowed to write letters to the judge regarding sentencing.

In regard to the dropped precursor possession charge, Smith said, “The evidence also indicated that the majority of the chemicals for which Mr. Maynord was found guilty were in his truck. Mr. Jones was found in the apartment, so there was not as strong a tie between him and the substances used to create methamphetamine as there was with Mr. Maynord.”

Arrested with Jones and Maynord were Johnny Anderson, 35, 4728 Nailor Road; and Angela Wright, 29, 112 Bering St.

The four were in Jones’ apartment at Magnolia Commons, a Grange Hall Road. Sheriff’s deputies and agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics found methamphetamine in the apartment and a portable meth lab in the back of Maynord’s truck with an active cook in process.

Subsequent to the arrest, Maynord’s attorney requested a severance of his case from the other defendants.

Anderson pleaded guilty in a different case to shooting into an occupied dwelling. He is serving an eight-year prison term, to which he was sentenced by Patrick in June. The meth-related charges were not prosecuted, Smith said.

Wright’s case is still pending.

Also in Warren County Circuit Court for the week ending Friday:

• Joseph Flynn Brown, 25, 711 Belva Drive, No. 41, having been found guilty Oct. 16 of violating probation, was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Isadore Patrick to 30 days of inpatient treatment followed by two years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ Intensive Supervision Program (house arrest). Brown was arrested Feb. 4, 2006, for possession of a controlled substance.

• Robert Lindell Buck, 32, 302 Skyview Lane, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault-domestic violence and was sentenced by Patrick to five years in prison followed by five years of probation, plus $1,822.50 in fines and costs. Buck was arrested Sept. 7, 2008.

• Alton A. Burden, 39, 1635 Crawford St., pleaded guilty to sale of a controlled substance and was sentenced by Patrick to 10 years in prison, plus $5,622.50 in fines and costs. Burden was arrested Dec. 5.

• Rafael Castillo, 52, 7107 Venus St., Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana and was sentenced by Patrick to five years in prison, plus $1,822.50 in fines and costs. Castillo was arrested March 7, 2005.

• Jeffrey Eatmon, 29, 2816 Drummond St., pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and was sentenced by Patrick to four years in prison followed by five years of probation, plus $5,622.50 in fines and costs. Eatmon was arrested in May 2008.

• Alton W. Jackson, 45, 127 Pettway Road, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, third offense, and was sentenced by Circuit Judge M. James Chaney to the Ninth Circuit Drug Court Program for a period not to exceed five years, plus $1,822.50 in fines and costs. Jackson was arrested Sept. 5.

• Susie Mae Johnson, 35, 1124 South St., was found guilty of violating probation and was sentenced by Patrick to the MDOC Restitution Center in Flowood to pay $1,322.50 in fines, court costs and restitution, followed by two years of house arrest. Johnson was arrested Nov. 22 for shoplifting, third offense.

• Randy S. Morrison, 29, 1501 Martin Luther King Blvd., pleaded guilty to sale of cocaine and was sentenced by Patrick to 12 years in prison followed by 5 years of probation, plus fines and court costs totalling $5,622.50. A second sale of cocaine charge was not prosecuted. Morrison was arrested Dec. 5.

• Lee Ellen Newsome, 31, 1205 Prospect St., pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and was sentenced by Patrick to one year and one day in prison followed by four years of probation, plus $2,122.50 in fines and costs. Newsome was arrested Aug. 26, 2008.

• Alex Jose Rugama, 26, 4211 E. 53rd St., Adelanto, pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced by Patrick to 10 years in prison, plus $322.50 in court costs. Rugama was arrested Set. 7, 2008.