Joshua Ryan Dale, Insider #2330

Joshua Ryan Dale and his wife, Kayla, left North Carolina for East Tennessee. They wanted a new start for their family and a better living situation for their son. Mr. Dale ran a prosperous tile business.

During his adolescence, Mr. Dale’s best friend drowned in front of him. The two were cliff diving at the lake and, despite Mr. Dale’s efforts to save him, his friend drown. More recently, in May 2024, Mr. Dale’s sister, Ashleigh Dale, was accidentally shot and killed. Ashleigh was sitting in a car, with friends, including her neighbor. The neighbor was in the back seat and was working with an older gun when the gun discharged and went through the front seat, hitting and killing Ashleigh. His sister’s death happened while Mr. Dale was on pretrial release and while her death contributed to his negative attitude and behaviors.

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Sentence

Sentenced December 19, 2024 to a term of Four (4) Months of Incarceration, followed by a term of Twelve (12) Months of Supervised Release. Special Assessment of $25 imposed. Restitution in the amount of $1,000.
Pardoned

Criminal History
  • In April of 2013 Dale was arrested and later convicted of Driving While Intoxicated. He was sentenced to a one-year sentence with all but seven days
    suspended, but later violated his probation and was sentenced to 12 months of custody.
  • In May of 2014 Dale was arrested and later convicted again of Driving While Intoxicated. He was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence but later violated
    his probation and was sentenced to 2 years of custody.
  • In October of 2015 Dale was arrested and later entered a prayer for judgment to Larceny.
  • In July of 2020 Dale was charged with Assault on a Female, though the case was later dismissed.
  • In April of 2021 Dale was arrested and later convicted of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and sentenced to 12 months unsupervised probation.

    During the seven months he was on pretrial release, Dale violated no less than ten separate conditions of his pretrial release, most of which he violated on multiple occasions. He violated the reporting requirement, the address condition, the drug testing condition, the condition prohibiting the use of controlled substances, the firearms/weapons condition, the condition requiring truthfulness with Pretrial Services, the medical/psychiatric treatment condition, the curfew condition, the substance abuse therapy and counseling condition, and the mental health assessment and treatment condition. The culmination of this abysmal record of non-compliance was his final text message to his supervising officer on October 2, 2024 – “I wish yaw would just leave me alone. I don’t know, yaw, don’t want to know yaw”.
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