ROGERSVILLE — One of the four defendants in the Jan. 25 blind date robbery in Rogersville pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery Monday before Judge John Dugger and was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Jerry Michael Jones, 50, 122 Flatwood Lane, Rogersville, will be required to serve 85 percent of that eight-year sentence due to a law passed last year by the Tennessee General Assembly placing tougher penalties on violent offenders.
Jones was accused of helping rob a Rogersville man who had been set up on a blind date by an accomplice .
Amber Beth Gibson, 25, is accused of playing the part of the blind date in the scheme and is currently being held in the Hawkins County jail on that robbery charge, as well as charges stemming from a robbery that occurred in Rogersville in June 2010.
Gibson is also a person of interest in the beating death of 3-year-old Emily Barnard this past July. Barnard was the daughter of Gibson’s boyfriend at the time, and Sheriff Ronnie Lawson has said he won’t place charges in the child’s death until the autopsy is complete.
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