ELIZABETHTON â A man who had been accused of holding a Dominoâs delivery driver at gunpoint in 2020 pleaded guilty in Carter County Criminal Court on Tuesday on charges of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and aggravated assault.
Eric Rodney Banner, 47, was sentenced by Criminal Court Judge Lisa Rice to eight years on the unlawful possession charge. That sentence is to run consecutively to a three-year sentence for a conviction in Unicoi County. Banner was categorized as a standard offender and will have to serve 30 percent of the sentence before he is eligible for parole.
On the aggravated assault charge, Rice sentenced Banner to three years, to run concurrently with the unlawful possession sentence.