Multiple persons have entered plea agreements in the past week and sentenced to serve their time in the Tennessee Department of Corrections for methamphetamine trafficking in Washington and Carter Counties. Two of those pleas were entered in recent days in Jonesborough, and one was on Friday, January 31, in Elizabethton.

Mark Edward Campbell, 46, pled guilty to selling methamphetamine at 1501 East Millard Street in Johnson City on various dates in 2018. Those charges came as a result of undercover operations conducted by the Johnson City Police Department. Campbell’s sales were being conducted within a drugfree zone as it was across the road from a childcare facility. Campbell will serve eight years in prison with parole eligibility at 30 percent.

William Shane Necessary, 28, pled guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell or deliver as well as being a felon in possession of a firearm, and aggravated assault for offenses occurring in 2019. On September 9, patrol officers from the Johnson City Police Department were at a motel when they noticed a rental car believed to be in possession of Necessary, who had felony warrants.

Surrounding the room where they believed Necessary to be inside, Necessary surrendered himself. Inside the rental vehicle in various areas of the car, multiple bags of methamphetamine were found as well as a shotgun and pistol.

As a felon convicted of a prior robbery in Carter County, Necessary was forbidden to possess any firearms. For the aggravated assault case, it occurred on August 29 when a female reported to Johnson City police that Necessary had borrowed her vehicle, but when she attempted to get it back from him at the Citgo on 3100 Browns Mill Road, he had pointed a handgun towards her and fired the weapon.

Necessary will serve fifteen years in prison with parole eligibility at 35 percent.

Richard Stout, 42, pled guilty to selling methamphetamine on April 23, 2019. Stout was charged along with 43 other persons in Operation Sundown, a methamphetamine conspiracy investigation jointly conducted by the Carter County Sheriff’s Office and Elizabethton Police Department. The charge which Stout pled guilty arose from a sale Stout made to an undercover informant working for the joint task force. Along with a violation of probation that he will have to serve, Stout will serve 18 years in prison with parole eligibility at thirty percent.