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Former Police Sentenced
05/09/08 MRC/CJ
Former Clarksville police officer Franklin Mikel was
sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for selling drugs
at a skating rink he used to own.
Clark County Superior Court Judge Cecile Blau
sentenced Mikel, 35, under a plea agreement that allowed
him to avoid potential sentences of up to 50 years on each
of three original charges.
The plea bargain with deputy prosecutor Robert Bottorff
reduced the charges from Class A felonies to Class B
felonies and capped the total allowable sentence at 12
years.
Mikel admitted that he sold morphine tablets to
an informant three times in March and April last year at
the Greentree Skateland roller rink that he owned in
Clarksville.
Blau sentenced Mikel to the 12-year maximum
under the plea deal but ordered that one year be spent on
home incarceration and another on probation.
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