A man has been bound over to the action of the Montgomery County Grand Jury for a charge of felony possession of a controlled substance.
Quentine Johnson went before Judge Alan D. Lancaster last Thursday morning. Represented by Public Defender Lee Bailey, Johnson waived his right to a preliminary hearing. His bond remained at $5,000. On Tuesday, Nov. 16, Johnson was stopped on Middleton Road in a traffic stop.
Also in court Thursday, a Winona man had his charges of felony possession of a controlled substance reduced to misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. Denzel Forrest, represented by Candice Williams, pleaded guilty to the charges.
In other cases, two women went before Lancaster in two separate issues involving administration at Winona High School and Winona Elementary School.
Christy Sanders was charged with disturbing the peace after she had a confrontation with a Winona High School assistant principal. Sanders told Lancaster that she recognized that she didn’t handle it properly and said some things that she shouldn’t have.
She told Lancaster her daughter wrote a letter stating that she wanted to harm herself after an alleged incident at the school. She said she believed the school did nothing about the incident. Sanders said what she did was out of anger, stress and frustration.
Lancaster suggested that Sanders take the matter before the Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School Board.
“Actions have consequences Mrs. Sanders. There are proper channels to handle things, and this wasn’t the right one,” Lancaster told Sanders.
In another incident, Roshanda McGlothan was charged with two counts of disturbing the peace and two counts of cyberstalking. The disturbing the peace incident occurred at Winona Elementary School and the cyberstalking was on a resident of Winona.
McGlothan told the court that her son is being bullied, and she felt the school hasn’t done anything about it. She said she’s been to the school several times and has even contacted Dr. Teresa Jackson, superintendent of education.
McGlothan said she decided to take matters into her own hands, which landed her in court.
Lancaster told McGlothan as well that actions have consequences and she should’ve taken another route.
“I understand,” she said.
“No, you don’t understand, Mrs. McGlothan. You have an MDOC [Mississippi Department of Corrections] hold on you, which means you haven’t learned your lesson yet,” Lancaster told her.
McGlothan was ordered not to return to any property on the Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District Campuses. She also cannot attend sporting events and must have alternate ways to contact her children’s teachers.
She also cannot have contact with the victim who filed charges on her for cyberstalking. If McGlothan violates the charges, she will serve 30 days in jail on each count, totaling in 120 days.
