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Hendry Is Sentenced To Concurrent TermsBy JOE KOLLINStaff WriterThe 19-year-old son of former Collier County Sheriff E.A. Doug Hendry lias been sentenced to two 18-month prison terms cn charges of stealing an auio engine and violating the probation given him earlier on a burglary charge.But Circuit Judge Charles T. Carlton allowed both sentences to run concurrently, for a total of 18 months.Mark Alan Hendry, who turned 19 Saturday, last month admitted guilt 10 both charges, Carlton so id. As part of I he negotiations that resulted in the pleas, the slate attorney's office recummended a maximum sentence of one year in the county stockade on both charges.Cjrlton tentatively accepted the deal, but said his final decision would be based on a study uf Hendry’s background.Carlton hart ihe backgroundDriver Is Charged Following CrashA 20-year-old man has been arrested on a charge of causing a traffic accident lhat injured five people - then leaving the scene or the wreck.Arrested Monday night was Sam Mitchell Johnson of the Mirra Mobile Home Park in Naples, the Florida Highway Patrol said.Johnson was booked into the county jail. He was to make his initial court appearance thisaftcrnnnn nn rharpp*; nf drivinpTrail Sunday at 11:30 p.m. The car lie was driving crossed the centerline and cullided head-on wuh a cat in the oncoming lane of traffic. The five people in the west-bound car were taken to Naples Community Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries.Bui the driver of the car lhat crossed thu centerline, as well as the passenger, ried into the woods, the report adds.investigation report Monday. He refused to go along with the deal, saying he would have to sentence Hendry to more than one year.He told Hendry what the sentences would be and gave him the chance to withdraw his pleas and go to trial. Hendry accepted the sentences.Carltun said he would recommend the state Department of Offender Rehabilitation send Hendry to a yuuttifill offender camp. If the department can't send him there, he said he will recommend he serve the sentence at a community correctional Institution. He said he doesn’t want Hendry going to an adult prison facility.1 have a fear that if he gets into the adult system, there will be a chance of bodily harm to him berause his father was sheriff here for a long time and put many people in prison. Some of them may see this as a way to get at him through his boy,” Carltun said Monday.The charges involved the Dec. 7 theft of a Volkswagen engine and the July 28 burglary of a Tamiami Trail restaurant. The auto engine theft occurred about a month after he was placed on probation for the hurglary charge.
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Naples Daily News
Naples, Florida, US
Tue, May 18, 1976
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