Trucker sentenced for juvenile abductions

Darien McKinley

"Most despicable" and "disgusted" were among the comments made by the prosecution as a commercial truck driver from Georgia was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in what the prosecution considers the sex trafficking trade.
Darien Lakeith McKinley, 30, of Stockbridge, Ga., accepted a plea agreement Monday morning just as his five-day jury trial for kidnapping was set to commence. McKinley entered an Alford plea to one count of the reduced charge of abduction for his actions in June 2012.
Judge Alan Mayberry accepted the plea, found him guilty and ordered the maximum prison sentence for the amended charge.
Last June, McKinley was arrested after Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers recovered two missing juveniles from Kentucky during two incidents in Wood and Shelby counties.
One of the victims, a 17-year-old female, was reportedly released by McKinley at the Interstate 75 rest area just south of U.S. 6, after she had been abducted for several days. That victim provided information to authorities which led to the defendant's arrest in Shelby County where he was found with another juvenile victim.