Several more people pled guilty in DeKalb Criminal Court last week, including a woman who was arrested during the “Operation Ice Pick” investigation conducted by the DeKalb Sheriff’s Department and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Tiffany Jeannette Ford, 36, was indicted on June 8, 2022, during a special session of the DeKalb County Grand Jury. Ford was among nine other arrested in what authorities say was a major methamphetamine ring based out of DeKalb County. The ring allegedly involved people in four states and several Middle Tennessee counties.

On August 7, 2023, Ford entered a plea to conspiracy to sell a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) over 0.5 grams and received an eight-year TDOC sentence to serve at least 30 percent before she is eligible for release. The sentence is to run concurrently with a four-year sentence she is serving in Cumberland County. She was also fined $2,000, and was given 430 days jail credit.

Five others indicted from “Operation Ice Pick,” 33-year-old Tara R. Treadway of Smithville, 30-year-old Phillip Joe Potter of McMinnville, and 45-year-old Amy L. Hall of Alexandria were sentenced in January 2023, while 52-year-old Shawn David Troglen of Charlie Dickerson Road, Sparta and 49-year-old Charles Edward White, Jr. of Johnson’s Chapel Road, Sparta were sentenced last June.

In other Criminal Court news, 42-year-old Christopher Matthew McPherson of Cookeville, entered a guilty plea to sale of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) over 0.5 grams and received eight years, all suspended to supervised probation, and a $2,000 fine.

Britta Morgan Rollins, 31, pleaded guilty to possession of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver and received an eight-year sentence, suspended to supervised probation as a standard range I offender, and was fined $2,000. She was given 13 days jail credit.