A Maury County woman — whose husband pleaded guilty last month — received a nine-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a lesser charge. Her husband was sentenced to 15 years in prison March 4.
Shanna Echo Lynch, 38, from Middle Tennessee, pleaded guilty to facilitation of possession of 300 grams of cocaine or more as a Range 1 offender. Items seized during the arrest last year are forfeited and Lynch is being given credit for the 346 days in jail she has served since her arrest.
A second felony drug count was dropped.
Lynch and her husband, Joseph Evan Lynch, 38, had been sleeping in the parking lot of the Red Roof Inn off North Main Street on April 20, 2024. The vehicle the couple was in drew suspicions of Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies who noted it was parked between a U-Haul truck and larger truck.
When deputies approached the vehicle, “they noticed suspicious activity at the time and initiated contact with the couple which led to their arrest.”
Lynch was on state probation at the time and is serving a sentence from Maury County. The Cumberland County case is to be served at the same time the Maury case is served.
CCSO and Crossville Police officers carried out the investigation.
In other cases on the docket, the following took place:
•Henry Boyd Adams, 58, charged with possession of meth with intent, pleaded guilty to possession of more than .5 grams of meth and as a Range 1 offender, received an eight-year sentence with one year to serve and the balance on supervised probation. Adams was fined $2,000 and is to pay court costs and all items seized at arrest are to be forfeited. Adams is being given credit for 75 days already served in jail. The charge stems from an arrest during a traffic stop by THP Trooper Donald Seiber and CPD Lt. Jonathan O’Neal.
•Catherine Demar Stinnett, 63, charged with reckless endangerment, assault on a first responder, resisting a stop, arrest or search and possession of a handgun while under the influence, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor reckless endangerment and received an 11-month, 29-day suspended sentence to be served on supervised probation. Stinnett qualified for judicial diversion with the plea set aside. If all terms and conditions of diversion are met, Stinnett will qualify to petition the court to have the charge removed from her record. She is being given credit for 34 days served and is to pay clerk’s fee. The charge stems from a Nov. 11, 2023, incident investigated by CCSO during which gun shots struck a neighbor’s residence. Remaining charges were dropped.
•Kaden Alan Chapman, 22, pleaded guilty to an information charging reckless endangerment and received an 18-month suspended sentence to be served on supervised probation. Chapman qualified for judicial diversion, setting aside the plea for a probationary period. The charge relates to a July 12, 2024, incident.