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Sosa sentenced in statutory rape
Pleads guilty to having sex with minor at Smithville Elementary
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The 25-year-old man charged with statutory rape for having sex with a fifteen-year-old girl inside Smithville Elementary School was sentenced to a two-year jail term last Wednesday.
Judge David Patterson handed down the the two-year sentence in DeKalb County Criminal Court last week after Roel Celaya Sosa entered a plea of guilty by information in the case.
Sosa has been given credit for time served, and must register as a sex offender.
The girl’s mother told the Review at the time of the incident that she had dropped the minor off to accompany a younger sibling to a Reading Night program at the school.
Sosa, who had told the underage female that his name was Carlos Oliver Aldino, apparently arranged a meeting with her at the school, where they slipped away to a vacant classroom and had sex.
According to informed sources, school surveillance caught the entire incident on video, including the activity in the classroom.
A school custodian reportedly spotted the two loitering in the school hallway after the incident and informed them that they needed to move along.
The custodian reported the occurrence to Principal Dr. Bill Tanner and the victim's mother and authorities were contacted.
Unable to locate Sosa immediately following the event, police seized the Chevy Tahoe they believed to be to used in the commission of the felony, and Sosa fled the area.
After eluding authorities for more than two months, Sosa, who had by then added Martinez to his list of aliases, was arrested on May 25 by authorities in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania where he was working on a ranch under his newest last name.
In other news from the courtroom last week, 45-year-old Mark Goodson, charged with selling Dilaudid within 1,000 feet of a school, entered a guilty plea to sale of a Schedule II controlled substance, receiving a three-year jail term.
He to serve 30 percent of his sentence before he is eligible for release.
The sentence will run concurrently with a previous violation of probation case. Goodson was given jail credit of 32 days, and was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
Goodson was pinched in a recent undercover drug operation conducted by the Smithville Police Department, in which he sold two of the illegal tablets to a confidential police source at the City Walk Apartment complex, just in front of Smithville Elementary School.
Bradley H. Pugh, 32, pled by information to initiation of a process to manufacture methamphetamine.
Pugh received an eight-year sentence suspended to probation, and was fined $2,000.
He was given jail credit of 37 days, and agreed to enter a long-term rehab program.
Pugh was arrested on Oct. 10 when a deputy dispatched to check out a suspicious vehicle parked on the side of Seven Springs Road found him asleep at  the wheel of his truck.
The deputy also found coffee filters, batteries, two bags containing chemical products that were altered for the manufacture of methamphetamine, a prescription bottle with Pugh's name on it in the bag with the chemicals and a loaded handgun in the driver’s compartment of the vehicle.
Nena R. Chapman, 31, was granted pre-trial diversion probation for three years under a memorandum of understanding in a case in which her co-defendant, 30-year-old Joseph Daniel Richardson, pled guilty by information in May to one count of aggravated burglary and one count of theft over $10,000.
Both defendants were charged with theft over $10,000.
She is ordered to pay $3,578 restitution  and perform 40 hours of community service.
He received a three-year sentence for each charge, all suspended to supervised probation except for 180 days to be served.
The sentences are to run concurrently with each other and concurrent with a violation of probation case against him.
He was given jail credit from April 5 to May 20.
Chapman was accused of accepting jewelry that Richardson stole from a house on Dry Creek Road and selling it to a business in Smithville.
Courtney A. Paris, 28, pled guilty to two counts of possession of a Schedule II controlled substance for resale.
She received a four-year sentence to run concurrently on both charges and a fine of 2,000.
One year is to be served on community corrections and three years on state probation.
Sean William Cavanaugh, 45, pled by information to DUI first offense.
He received a suspended sentence of 11 months and 29 days, all except for 48 hours to serve.
 He will be on supervised probation, will lose his license for a year, and was fined $365.
Bradley S. Redmon, 29, pled guilty to assault, and was sentenced to 11 months and 29 days.
He was given credit for 247 days served.