NEWTON, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Catawba County man was sentenced to up to nine years in prison Wednesday after being convicted of injuring a local police chief.
According to the District Attorney’s Office for Catawba County, 52-year-old Richard David Miller Jr., of Claremont, was sentenced to serve seven to nine years in prison after his admission of habitual felon status during Catawba County Superior Court.
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The defendant, who entered a guilty plea on the day the trial was scheduled to begin, will be in the custody of the North Carolina Division of Adult Corrections.
Miller’s sentence length was enhanced by prior felony convictions for breaking and entering in Catawba County (August 2019) and Iredell County (January 2009 and September 2003)…