A LITTLE MORE THAN 8 MONTHS AFTER BEING ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS 9-YEAR OLD ADOPTED SISTER AMY DYE, 18-YEAR OLD GARRETT DYE PLED GUILTY TO THE CRIME IN TODD CIRCUIT COURT FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

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POLICE IN JACKSON, TENNESSEE SAY A FORT CAMPBELL SOLDIER HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR STATUTORY RAPE.

            27-YEAR OLD CHRISTOPHER KRAATZ WAS REPORTEDLY ARRAIGNED THIS MORNING IN JACKSON CITY COURT FOR TWO COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED STATUTORY RAPE AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELIQUENCY OF A MINOR.

            THE LEAF-CHRONICLE REPORTS POLICE DETERMINED THE 27-YEAR OLD SOLDIER DROVE TO JACKSON FROM THE ARMY BASE IN AUGUST AND HAD CONSENSUAL SEX WITH THE GIRL ON TWO DIFFERENT OCCASIONS AFTER MEETING ONLINE.

            KRAATZ WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AT FORT CAMPBELL AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT $10,000 DOLLARS.

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            TODD COUNTY TREASURER TAMMY ROBERTSON GAVE FISCAL COURT ITS QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT THIS MORNING, WHICH SHOWS SOME POSITIVES AND A FEW NEGATIVES.

            PERHAPS MOST ENCOURAGING, TODD COUNTY GOVERMNMENT HAS TAKEN IN JUST OVER 2-POINT-1-4 MILLION DOLLARS IN RECEIPTS THIS FISCAL YEAR, WHICH IS 111-THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE THAN WAS BUDGETED AT THIS POINT.

            SPENDING IS ALSO BELOW BUDGET NUMBERS, AS THE COUNTY IS ABOUT 230-THOUSAND DOLLARS BELOW BUDGET IN EXPENDITURES.

            ONE ITEM THAT DREW QUESTIONNS FROM FISCAL COURT MAGISTRATE BRENT SPURLIN WAS A HIGH PHONE BILL AT THE COURTHOUSE.

            MS. ROBERTSON EXPLAINED THE PHONE SYSTEM WAS RECENTLY HACKED AND THE PERPETRATOR RAN UP A VERY HIGH LONG DISTANCE BILL BY MAKING OVERSEAS CALLS.

            COURT CLERK MISTY GLOVER WAS PLACED IN CHARGE OF RECTIFYING THE MATTER AND SAID A-T-AND-T IS CREDITING THE COUNTY FOR THE BILLS ACCRUED DURING THAT TIME.

            ANOTHER AGENCY OVER BUDGET AT THIS POINT IS THE AMBULANCE DEPARTMENT, WHICH HAD TO PURCHASE SEVERAL ITEMS THAT MALFUNCTIONED OR OUTLIVED THEIR USEFULLNESS THIS YEAR.

            SOME OF THE LARGER BILLS PAID THIS FISCAL YEAR BY THE AMBULANCE SERVICE WERE BUDGETED FROM THE LAST FISCAL YEAR, WHICH ALSO EXPLAINS SOME OF THE ABNORMALITIES.

            COURT WENT INTO CLOSED SESSION FOR ABOUT 45 MINUTES FOR PERSONNEL ISSUES, WITH JUDGE EXECUTIVE DARRYL GREENFIELD SAYING COURT CHOSE TO SUSPEND A FEMALE AMBULANCE SERVICE EMPLOYEE WITHOUT PAY FOR A RECENT INCIDENT INVOLVING A MOTOR VEHICLE IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY.

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