Henderson promised to stay out of trouble weeks before carjacking incident
COVINGTON, Ga. The Covington man was in jail for not paying child support and faced spending Christmas there.
Jessie Henderson convinced a judge not to keep him locked up after his sentence ended in a few days because of some fines he owed.
However, a few weeks later, Henderson was charged with allegedly carjacking a man near downtown Monroe on Jan. 9.
Henderson, the son of Newton County Commissioner J.C. Henderson, asked Superior Court Judge Layla Zon during a hearing on a probation violation charge Dec. 21 if he could be allowed to go home to spend the holidays with his family, said Assistant District Attorney Griffin Bell.