Michael R. Moser, Crossville Chronicle, Tenn.

A Cumberland County jail inmate who feigned injuries in a fall at the Justice Center lockup pleaded guilty to filing a false report and received a two-year prison sentence with restitution of up to $40,000 to be paid back to the taxpayers.

Dylan Caleb Howard, 36, pleaded guilty to an information charging filing a false report — a Class D felony — and is to serve the sentence as a Range 1 offender. The restitution is to be paid back at a rate of $50 per month.

Howard was in jail serving a probation violation sentence when on Jan. 12 he claimed he fell down set of stairs in the jail and “could not feel his legs,” according to Assistant District Attorney Philip Hatch. Howard was transported to Cumberland Medical Center and later transferred to The University of Tennessee Medical Center where he finally admitted he had made up the story.

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In other cases, the following pleas were entered:

•Brendon James Carter-Libby, 26, charged with a probation violation, pleaded guilty the probation violation (new charge) and to an information charging felony evading arrest and received a two-year sentence to serve as a Range 1 offender and concurrent with the violation sentence of two years. The new charge stems from a June 3, 2021, flight from CCSO Investigator Jon Wirey during a traffic stop. Libby was on probation after pleading guilty to an information charging possession of more than .5 grams of meth during a November 2018...

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