Dateline: July 24, 2003

Rippetoe gets five years for violations

By Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise

District Judge David McCoy sentenced Max Rippetoe of Clarendon to five years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division last Monday.

Rippetoe came before the court on a motion to revoke probation filed by District Attorney Stuart Messer. 

Rippetoe was placed on felony probation for five years on May 20, 2002, for the felony charge of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. He violated his probation after only four days and was to enter into a Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division Boot Camp.

He got out of boot camp and again violated terms of his probation to get him once again before McCoy, who gave the maximum sentence of five years confinement by the TDCJ.

“Chances are given, but the 100th District Community Supervision, Corrections Department, and the Donley County Sheriff’s Department keep an eye out,” Messer said. “When a probationer messes up, these offices are ready to see the defendant brought to justice.”