Former Pulaski County Deputy Faces Manslaughter Charges
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A former Pulaski County deputy sheriff
faces a manslaughter charge in Saint Francis County stemming from a
May interstate accident that killed his passenger.
Twenty-five-year-old Joshua Plemmons of Little Rock appeared
before Saint Francis County District Judge Steve Routon yesterday
and was released on his own recognizance.
Plemmons resigned from the Pulaski County sheriff`s office last
week. He had worked for the department since April 2001.
Plemmons is charged in a May Second wreck that killed passenger
24-year-old Kerry L- Patton of Mablevale.
According to a state police report, Plemmons was trying to pass
two tractor-trailers on the right shoulder of Interstate 40 near
Shell Lake when the accident occurred.
