Man removed from sentencing

A Farina man was sentenced to prison last week for damage he allegedly caused while housed in the Fayette County Jail, but he wasn’t in the courtroom to hear the sentence.
That’s because the sentencing judge ordered Darrel K. Moulton, 35, removed from the courtroom for his behavior.
Fayette County Resident Circuit Judge Don Sheafor sentenced Moulton to four years in prison last Tuesday, about two months after Moulton signed an open plea on a charge of criminal damage to government-supported property.
In his docket entry, Sheafor noted that Moulton, on his own, made a motion asking for a fitness evaluation and a psychiatric evaluation, and that his attorney, David Grigsby, “does not believe that either of these is justified.”
In his entry, Sheafor said that Moulton become “combative, cursing and trying to leave the courtroom. (The) defendant would not cooperate or obey verbal orders of the bailiff and had to be physically restrained; (the) matter was extremely disruptive and the defendant would not stop yelling.”
After a brief break in the matter, Sheafor said in his docket entry, he asked Moulton if he “could proceed in a calm matter. (The) defendant began to become disruptive and yell again.
“(The) defendant was advised that he would not be allowed to participate in his sentencing hearing,” Sheafor noted in his docket entry.
Moulton pleaded guilty on May 17 to the Class 3 felony criminal damage charge that alleged that while housed in the county jail, he removed insulation from a wall and flushed it down a toilet, which caused flooding and plumbing damage.
In addition to the prison sentence, Moulton was ordered to pay restitution of $984.15 to the county for the damage to the jail property.
He was given credit for 373 days served in the county jail.
Also in Fayette County Circuit Court, Levi C. McWhorter, 21, of Vandalia, was given to 24-month prison sentences on Tuesday after pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine and possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver.
As part of the plea agreement, the two sentences will be served concurrently.