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May 5, 2012

Studio instructor gets jail on drug charge

From Staff Reports

A Tunnel Hill man working as a cheerleading and gymnastics instructor who was arrested for attempting to sell methamphetamine out of the training studio was sentenced to four months in jail on Friday for violating his probation on a newer drug charge, a court officer said.

Dwight Jerome Cook, 28, of 104 Bloomingdale Way, was charged in March of 2011with intending to sell meth out of Sideline All-Stars cheerleading studio, a business he owned and operated on Powell Drive in south Dalton, according to a Dalton Police Department incident report. He was also charged at that time with possession of drug-related objects and possession of tools for the commission of a crime.

Cook entered a guilty plea in October to possession of meth and received “first offender” probation, which means if he was not involved in any further criminal activity or did not violate his probation for the period of the probation the felony charge would be taken off his record. He was given a sentence of five years on probation, 100 days in jail, fines totaling $3,792, 240 hours of community service and random drug screens.

But after his arrest in December on a new meth charge, an agreement was reached under which he admitted to possessing and using meth as a violation of his probation, District Attorney Bert Poston said. Cook was found guilty by Judge William Boyett and his first offender status was revoked, and he was re-sentenced to 10 years probation based on completing120 days of local jail time and entry into the Day Reporting Center program for drug treatment.

“That re-sentencing took place on Feb. 20,” said Poston. “As part of that agreement, the new case was to have been dismissed but that inadvertently didn’t happen until today when the case appeared back on the calendar. The new case has now been dismissed.”

Dalton Police conducted a month-long investigation before arresting Cook in March last year but did not believe he was selling meth to the children he coached in cheerleading and gymnastics, a spokesman said.

In August, Cook was charged by the Tunnel Hill Police Department with driving under the influence (DUI) “of alcohol and/or multiple substances” and criminal trespass of property without permission. That case was no billed by a grand jury in November, Poston said.

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