Expand / Collapse search
Watch TV
Menu

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2024 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper.

CRIME

Mom pleads guilty to hindering son's apprehension in deaths

Associated Press
Published | Updated

CONWAY, Ark. – Prosecutors say a mother has pleaded guilty to a charge that she hindered the apprehension of her teenage son on murder charges.

Michelle Staton entered a negotiated guilty plea Monday. Faulkner County Prosecutor Cody Hiland said she was sentenced to six years in prison and six additional years of a suspended sentence for hindering apprehension and two unrelated drug charges.

Fifteen-year-old Justin Staton has pleaded not guilty to capital murder and other charges in the shooting of Robert and Patricia Cogdell, who raised him as their grandson.

Prosecutors allege the teen and his friend, 18-year-old Hunter Drexler, robbed and shot the couple, then dumped their bodies in a wooded area nearby.

Drexler and two other teens have also pleaded not guilty to charges in the slayings.