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Mom Convicted of Beating Heroin Dealer
HILLSBORO, Mo. (CN) - A mother who whacked her son's heroin dealer with a baseball bat faces up to a year in jail after being convicted of misdemeanor assault.
A Jefferson County jury on Tuesday convicted Sherry Gavan, 54, of third-degree assault, a class A misdemeanor. She faces up to a $1,000 fine and a year in jail at her June 4 sentencing.
According to Missouri press reports, Joshua Loyd admitted he helped supply Sherry Gavan's now 19-year-old son, Clayton, with heroin.
Sherry Gavan did not dispute that she hit Loyd with a baseball bat outside his home on Dec. 20, 2011.
Gavan's attorney claimed that she was trying to protect her son, but prosecutors said she was not allowed to take the law into her own hands.
Gavan whacked the dealer after she tailed her son to Loyd's house. She claimed that Loyd pulled an unidentified object the size of half a brick out of his car, so she grabbed the bat and bopped him twice on the arm.
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stevenleser
(32,886 posts)If I am on that jury, it's NOT GUILTY.
pansypoo53219
(20,950 posts)arm? shit, i saw my lovely BLACK grade school teach whack a little brat w/ a plastic bat better. hell, i'd hit arm, then go for the head.