GILMER (KYTX) - Upshur County District Judge Lauren Parish revoked probation this month for a Gilmer man.
Herbert Duane Hobgood Jr., who turned 21 today, is in the Upshur County Jail awaiting transport to state prison. On Aug. 10, Judge Parish sentenced Hobgood to 14 years in prison on a probation revocation.
In February 2010, Parish granted 10 years' probation to Hobgood on a conviction of sexual assault of a child. This past March, prosecutors asked that Hobgood's probation be revoked. Hobgood pled true to the state's allegations.
Parish also sentenced two people on separate drunk driving with child passenger offenses - one to probation, the other to prison.
Ashley Resha Cook, 24, of Gilmer, was convicted Friday of DWI with a child passenger, a felony punishable by up to two years in state jail. Parish handed Cook three years' probation with a $500 fine and 300 hours of community work service. She was defended by Gilmer attorney Brandon Winn.
Joshua Ladon Haynes, 26, of Gilmer, was also convicted Friday of the same charge. He received 15 months in state jail after pleading guilty. He was defended by Gilmer attorney Todd Tefteller.
Also pleading guilty Friday was 47-year-old Douglas O'Neal Howard, of Gladewater, on a criminally negligent homicide offense. Parish sentenced Howard to 20 months in state jail for the July 18, 2008, incident.
Herbert Duane Hobgood Jr.
