Court News
Timothy Brill
(Note from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office: Information is omitted to protect the integrity of the case and identity of witness unless the witness is another law enforcement agency. In most cases, a witness calls to provide information and we do not post witness information. There was no...
Brandon M. Tolliver
A man who once worked for a company who transported juveniles has received a 20-year sentence for an incident that took place on Nov. 1, 2023.Back on Aug. 13, Judge Craig Carter sentenced Brandon Tolliver to 20 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) for rape in the first degree.His...
There were 67 cases on the docket on July 11 and a few with guilty pleas for Judge Craig Carter.James Wilson, 38, of Hartville, received five years supervised probation for second degree domestic assault.Travis Hire, 38, of Fulton, received four years in the Department of Corrections (DOC) for...
Randall Redding
A Mountain Grove man was arrested in Douglas County for an incident that took place on July 2.According to a report from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, at around 9:42 p.m., it received a 911 call from a female resident on E. Washington Avenue in Ava regarding a male subject attempting to kick...
Billy D. Gleason
It was recently announced that on July 11, Wright County Circuit Judge Craig Carter sentenced Billy D. Gleason, of Norwood, to 25 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC).His charges were for trafficking drugs in the second degree and four years in the DOC for keeping or maintaining a...
The following are Wright County marriage licenses as recorded in the Recorder of Deeds office from the end of February through June 2024.Arthur Morstatter, 55, of Hartville, married Terri Morstatter, 49, of Hartville, on Feb. 29 in Hartville.Amus Stoltfus, 20, of Hartville, married Syliva King, 19...
Franklin Armstrong Jr., formerly of Mountain Grove, was convicted of child molestation in the first degree, statutory sodomy and rape in the first degree and other sex crimes after a jury trial. The trial lasted three days from April 8-10. The jurors were Wright County citizens. He was sentenced by...
Preston Montgomery
A Springfield man was arrested after a traffic stop in Norwood back on May 12.According to a Wright County Sheriff’s Office report, while speaking to the occupants of the vehicle, Deputy Jordan was advised the passenger, Preston Montgomery, had an active probation and parole warrant.Montgomery was...