ROGERSVILLE â A Bulls Gap man who was charged twice in less than a week earlier this year, once for shooting at his wife, and then for attacking her vehicle with a machete, was sentenced last week to 18 years, although only two of those must be served in jail.
Robert Paul Rector, 49, 1322 Bulls Gap/St. Clair Road, Bulls Gap, pleaded guilty in Hawkins County Criminal court in two separate cases.
In the first case he was sentenced by Judge John Dugger to 12 years in exchange for guilty pleas to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and aggravated assault stemming from an incident that occurred on June 30.
ROGERSVILLE â The Hawkins County Sheriffâs Office is investigating the theft of two antique Volkswagens valued at $12,000 that were apparently taken from a residence just south of Rogersville on Nov. 27 and reported stolen on Dec. 5.
On Dec. 5, Paula Cook of Morristown told HCSO Deputy Mike Allen that she and her 91-year-old father had been previously talking to a woman about selling some old cars that were parked on her fatherâs property on Route 66-S.
The would-be buyer later drove by the property and noticed two of the vehicles, a 1960 Volkswagen Beetle valued at $4,000, and a 1979 Volkswagen Vanagon valued at $8,000, were no longer in the yard.