A Columbus man arrested three years after he reportedly sexually assaulted a woman pleaded guilty to the assault in Lowndes County Circuit Court last week.
Jamory Ross, 21, was sentenced to 30 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections with 20 to serve after admitting to the charge of sexual battery.
According to the indictment, Ross broke into a Columbus residence and forced a woman to have oral sex with him after threatening her with a firearm in July 2015. However, he was not arrested until nearly three years later, after DNA evidence placed him at the scene.
Ross was also charged with burglary and armed robbery, both of which were dismissed as a condition of his plea.
Other defendants who pleaded guilty in the most recent term of circuit court include Jeffrey Collie, 38, of Aliceville, Alabama, and Ian Gardner, 21, of Columbus, both of whom pleaded to separate armed robberies.
Collie was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was accused of robbing a man at gunpoint on 19th Street North in 2017.
According to the indictment, Collie threatened the victim with a gun and took his money, a backpack and a shaving kit. Police later found Collie hiding under a nearby house and arrested him, according to previous reporting from The Dispatch.
Collie was also charged with shooting into a dwelling and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Those charges were retired based on his guilty plea.
Gardner was sentenced to 15 years with four years to serve in MDOC. He was indicted in 2017 for shooting at a man he was attempting to rob. He also shot at a woman in the same incident.
Neither victim was injured.
Two counts of aggravated assault against Gardner were dismissed based on his plea.
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