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A Kingwood teenager arrested for digging up the grave of 11-year-old Willie Sims at Humbles Negro Cemetery in May pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse Aug. 25 and was sentenced to 240 days in jail.
According to officials at the 12th Harris County Criminal Court, Kevin Wade Jones, 17, who has spent more than three months in Harris County Jail already since he was booked May 8, will likely serve 10 more days in jail on the misdemeanor charge.
Its two for one, said a court clerk who did not identify herself. He was sentenced to 240 days in jail and was credited half that. That leaves 10 days to serve. This case is over.
Although Jones will soon have served his punishment in the case of desecrating Sims grave, who died in 1921, and using his skull to smoke marijuana, he wont go home anytime soon. During the course of the Negro Cemetery investigation, authorities also charged Jones with credit card abuse, a felony.
Court records show that on Aug. 13, Jones pleaded guilty to the charge in the 230th District Court and was sentenced to six months in prison.
One of Jones accomplices on the night of the grave digging was Matthew Richard Gonzalez, 18, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor theft he committed in April upon his May 7 arrest. He, too, faces a misdemeanor charge of abuse of a corpse and is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 4 after being released on bond.
Authorities are not releasing information on a third person, a male juvenile, arrested in connection with the skull-bong incident.
According to officials at the 12th Harris County Criminal Court, Kevin Wade Jones, 17, who has spent more than three months in Harris County Jail already since he was booked May 8, will likely serve 10 more days in jail on the misdemeanor charge.
Its two for one, said a court clerk who did not identify herself. He was sentenced to 240 days in jail and was credited half that. That leaves 10 days to serve. This case is over.
Although Jones will soon have served his punishment in the case of desecrating Sims grave, who died in 1921, and using his skull to smoke marijuana, he wont go home anytime soon. During the course of the Negro Cemetery investigation, authorities also charged Jones with credit card abuse, a felony.
Court records show that on Aug. 13, Jones pleaded guilty to the charge in the 230th District Court and was sentenced to six months in prison.
One of Jones accomplices on the night of the grave digging was Matthew Richard Gonzalez, 18, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor theft he committed in April upon his May 7 arrest. He, too, faces a misdemeanor charge of abuse of a corpse and is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 4 after being released on bond.
Authorities are not releasing information on a third person, a male juvenile, arrested in connection with the skull-bong incident.
