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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 gunman who kidnapped a Mount Carmel woman in 2017 and used her as bait to lure out a shooting victim in Bloomingdale was sentenced to six years last week in Hawkins County Criminal Court. That brings the total amount of time that Jarrett Cole âShroomâ Heitmann is now serving up to 24 years. Heitmann, 28, of Bristol, Tennessee, pleaded guilty in federal court in 2018 to unrelated marijuana trafficking charges in exchange for a 10-year sentence. This past Feb. 14, Heitmann pleaded guilty in Sullivan County Criminal Court to attempted second-degree murder and kidnapping in exchange for an eight-year sentence, which must be consecutive to the federal time. The six-year sentence handed down Dec. 11 by Judge John Dugger is to be served consecutive to those other two sentences. ....