State-Journal.com - Williams' burglar gets probation

The Frankfort man who broke into the Silver Lake home of City Commissioner Rodney Williams last year received five years probation.
“This is a very serious offense,” Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd told Ryan Konkle, 20, of 138 Locust Ave.
“You’re a young man and the court is giving you a generous opportunity today.”
Konkle will live with his mother in Owenton and must seek treatment, pay $500 restitution, maintain full-time employment or education and have no contact with the victims as terms of his probation.
Konkle pleaded guilty Oct. 8 to second-degree burglary, theft by unlawful taking over $300 and receiving stolen property over $300. His was sentenced Friday.
Here’s what police say happened around 4 a.m. Nov. 25:
Konkle and Anthony Loman, 21, also of Locust Avenue, entered Williams’ garage on Equestrian Way. Williams awoke and heard the men making noise in his kitchen. He walked into the kitchen and saw Loman, who told Williams his name was “Billy Spillman.”
Loman told Williams he thought he was in someone else’s house. Williams said he didn’t get a good look at Konkle, who was standing at an outside doorway.
The men fled and police tracked them to Ringo Court, but the pair got away. Police then found them behind the Brighton Park Kroger.
While running away, the men dropped several items – mostly gospel CDs belonging to Harold Benson, 45, of Winners Circle. Benson said the men broke into his truck.
Police received help from a female acquaintance who identified a jacket and shoe belonging to the men, which police found during the pursuit. She told police the two would steal items and trade them to a drug dealer for crack cocaine.
Konkle was arrested Dec. 9 and Loman turned himself in a few days later.
In other court matters Friday:
>Shepherd granted shock probation to Stephen Tackett, 20, 253 Douglas Ave.
Shepherd sentenced Tackett – who was incarcerated at Blackburn Correctional Complex in Lexington – to 10 years Sept. 18 for stealing sound equipment and other items from two churches and one residence.
Tackett must pay restitution to the victims, Shepherd said. Court documents show claims of more than $6,000 total by the victims – Camp Pleasant Baptist Church, Bethel Lane Church and the owner of a Franklin County residence.
State police arrested Tackett May 27 after troopers said he sold them stolen items from the Camp Pleasant church in an undercover buy – a bass guitar, amp, tools, a laptop and a camcorder.
Tackett earned his GED while incarcerated and has a job lined up with AmeriCorps, public defender Clay Wilkey told Shepherd.
>John Hawkins III, 23, of Old Harrodsburg Road, will enter a plea next week or go to trial on charges of robbing an elderly woman in Steak ‘n Shake’s parking lot.
Hawkins’ trial date is Nov. 19 and he hasn’t accepted the Commonwealth’s offer on a guilty plea.
Public defender Kristin Gonzalez said she’d discuss the plea offer with Commonwealth’s Attorney Larry Cleveland before that date. Cleveland said he’d be prepared for a trial if nothing is resolved.
According to police reports, Hawkins approached Brenda Patrick, 63, near the restaurant Aug. 18 and spoke casually to the victim before shoving her to the ground and stealing her purse.
Patrick suffered a broken and separated shoulder from the fall, reports say.
>Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate expunged charges of impersonating a peace officer against Anthony Presley, 31, of Frankfort.
Cleveland dropped the charges against Presley Sept. 18 because the alleged victim wouldn’t cooperate, Cleveland said.
Police say Presley identified himself as a state trooper to a woman at Cooter Brown’s in June 2008. Presley worked for state police as a security guard at the time, documents obtained from the Personnel Cabinet say.

1.	Posted by ronandlane November 16, 2009
	FIVE years probation is actually quite a stiff sentence and it is well deserved. The only add on I would have liked to see would have been a 6 months to 1 year home incarceration with an ankle monitor to ensure that this individual does not stray off. However the five years should certainly prove to be a meaningful deterrent, in addition the treatment and restitution end of the sentence is fine. Also a hefty amount of community service would have been warranted. I wonder why the judge chose not to impose C.S. as well that surprises me greatly. I would have liked to see a minimum of 140 hours meted out (7 hours a day X 5 days in a week = 35 hours per week X 4 weeks = 140 hours. January would have been a good month to perform that C.S. Knowing how the criminal justice system works here in Kentucky I would say this young man needs to stay as far away from trouble as possible. The next judge will throw the book at this young man and the sentence imposed the next time will sting a lot more painfully than the current sentence imposed.