Hickory Man Receives 8-11 Year Sentence Following Guilty Plea To Larceny, Drug Counts
Jameson Acoya Kennedy
Hickory Man Receives 8-11 Year Sentence Following Guilty Plea To Larceny, Drug Counts
February 15, 2021
28-year-old Jameson Acoya Kennedy of Hickory will spend at least eight years in prison for convictions on multiple criminal offenses and admission of his status as a habitual felon in Catawba County Superior Court.
The Honorable Nathaniel J. Poovey, Superior Court Judge from Catawba County, sentenced Kennedy to serve an active prison term of eight to 11 years last Wednesday, (February 10).
Kennedy pleaded guilty to three counts of larceny of motor vehicle on July 29, 2019, and possession of methamphetamine on October 7, 2019, and sentencing was continued from those settings pending the defendant’s completion of a rehabilitation program that was not finished.