3 weeks, 6 days ago by Scott Hardy
Tracey Ray receives two 10-year sentences in Boone County court.
Former Center, Missouri clerk Tracey Ray, who's already been sentenced to prison on Federal charges that she stole over $300,000 from the city, will serve more time in Missouri on separate state charges.
Ray was in Boone County Circuit Court Wednesday, where she was sentenced to 10 year terms on two counts of 2nd Degree Assault of a special victim. Ray pleaded Guilty in early March to the counts as part of a settlement with prosecutors. In return, they dropped two counts each of 1st Degree Assault and Armed Criminal Action. The case was tried in Boone County on a change of venue from Ralls County. Ray faced those charges as a result of a July 2nd, 2019 shooting that slightly wounded former Ralls County Sheriff Gerry Dinwiddie and former Chief Deputy Ronald Haught.
She's already been sentenced to 18 months in Federal prison, after pleading Guilty in June 2022 to Federal counts of wire fraud and federal program theft. Ray admitted she stole just over $317,000 from the city of Center between January 2015 and early July 2019.
