A felony charge filed 3½ years ago has been dropped against a man identified as the brother of a youth who was nearly starved to death.
Tyler Joe Adkins, who was then 24 and is now 28, was charged July 23, 2018, with a single count of child neglect.
He was accused of between Jan. 1, 2017 and July
12, 2018, of conjointly acting with Jimmy Lee Jones, Sr., Amy Adkins Jones, and Johnathan Luke Plank of maliciously engaging in the neglect of J.L.J.J., then 15 by failing to provide adequate nurturance, food, shelter, sanitation, hygiene, appropriate education, medical or dental care for the child.
Court records show that the state, during a felony disposition docket on Jan. 11 this year, moved to dismiss the case against Adkins. District Judge Cindy Ashwood ordered the case dismissed.
Adkins had been scheduled to stand trial on the charge on Feb. 7 before it was dismissed.
The charge against Plank had been dismissed several years ago.
Juries, in separate trials during 2021, convicted Jimmy Lee Jones, Sr., and Amy Adkins Jones. Jimmy is serving a six-year prison sentence following his conviction and Amy is serving eight years in prison after she was sentenced on the last day of November last year.