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Hinkle sentenced for his part in robbery
BY JAMES JACENICH • STAFF WRITER
MONTEREY - Carol "Bill" Hinkle Jr. of Blue Grass was sentenced Dec. 21 to three years in the penitentiary for his part in the Oct. 6, 2006 robbery of the Blue Grass Valley Bank in Blue Grass. All three years of Hinkle's sentence was suspended; he was placed on one-year supervised probation and ordered to pay court costs and $2,000 restitution to the bank. He was represented by Gordon W. Poindexter Jr. of Waynesboro.
Hinkle was found guilty June 27 of feloniously receiving stolen property knowing it to be stolen of a value of more than $200.
Tommy Lee Brewer of Durbin, W.Va., the convicted of robbing the Blue Grass Valley Bank, previously testified he gave Hinkle $2,000 of at least $10,000 he took from the bank. Brewer said Hinkle, and Brewer's sister, Sandy Moyers, Hinkle's wife, needed the money to pay off a debt and encouraged Brewer to rob the bank.
Brewer was staying at the home of Hinkle and Moyers at the time of the robbery and returned to the home after the robbery.
Moyers was charged with accessory after the fact, but the charge was dropped due to a clause in the law that grants next-ofkin immunity from prosecution.
Brewer's nephew, Dustin Turner, was charged with accessory after the fact and sentenced March 6 by district court to one year in jail. Brewer said Turner helped him hide the money and gun used in the robbery, arranged transportation for him to Churchville and helped him buy a car.
Brewer is serving 12 years of a 23-year sentence in the state penitentiary for armed robbery of the bank.
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